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Category: Winter

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Farewell

After a long, late fall, winter dropped a white shroud more than a foot deep over our mountaintop just in time for our Christmas Bird Count last year. Although I managed to get outside for a short jaunt around Butterfly Loop where our caretaker Troy had plowed, I left wading through the snow up to […]

Posted in Brush Mountain/ Plummer’s Hollow, Winter, Writing. 23 Comments
February 1, 2018January 23, 2018

Weird Winter

The weird winter of 2017 had thaws longer and warmer than freezes. Our white nights of bright moonlight shining on snow were scarce. It was an old person’s winter lacking the usual ice and snow that often makes for hazardous walking. Since I am an old person, I should have been grateful but I wasn’t […]

Posted in Weather, Winter. Tagged Great Backyard Bird Count. Leave a comment
February 5, 2015March 5, 2015

Winter Porkies

While I may puzzle over some tracks, there is no mistaking those of porcupines. They plow through the snow on their naked, flat, pigeon-toed feet like miniature bulldozers, and when the tracks freeze, deer, opossums and foxes use them as winter highways.

Posted in Animal Behavior, Brush Mountain/ Plummer’s Hollow, porcupine, Trees and Shrubs, Winter. Tagged Uldis Roze. Leave a comment
January 4, 2015March 4, 2015

Midwinter Cranes

I never thought I would see sandhill cranes less than 20 miles from my home in central Pennsylvania. Yet there I was last January, sitting in our car with my husband Bruce, watching five sandhill cranes through our scope as they foraged in a small wetland near State College. When the word went out on […]

Posted in Animal Behavior, Pennsylvania Places, sandhill crane, Wetlands, Winter. Tagged Doug Gross, migration, Nancy W. Rodgers. 4 Comments

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