Bolt Hole Report, March 29, AM Edition

He's baaaack!

That's the report form Terry at the Aerie. She had a late night visitor in the form of Brer Bear. Our Bruin friend came in tot he bird feeders around 11 PM and pulled them all down before coming up on the deck to see if there was anything left up there t eat. While it may have destroyed the feeders on the side of the yard, Terry had brought the stick feeders that hang on the front deck into the house before dark so they were saved. The shepherds hooks are a different story as they are seriously bent.

Dang bear always shows up when I'm elsewhere.

Guess the area's windmills have little affect upon the neighborhood bear.

What it doesn't realize is that it just wiped out the goose that laid the golden eggs. No more feeders for awhile.

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Spring weather. Who can understand it? It was raining/sleeting at the Bolt Hole at sundown with a temperature of 33 degrees. It continues to rain/mist but the southeast winds caused the temperature to rise to around 40 degrees at 7 AM and it's now 43 degrees at 10:45 AM.

I'll be hitching up the trailer after lunch so it'll be ready early tomorrow for its trip to the shop. I just hope the rain/mist slacks off while I'm doing so.

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Slept with the sliding door in the bedroom cracked open last night. It's on the north side of the cabin so the rain would not have blown in unless the wind shifted--which it didn't. As a result, I woke up to the sound of a woodcock doing his thing in the early twilight. Several "peents" and the whirring of wings repeated several times as he advertised for a mate. Still the only migrant to start singing (except for robins). In a couple of weeks the song sparrows, chipping sparrows, white-throated sparrows, Phoebes, and several warblers will add their voices to the morning alarm call.