A classic Nor'easter kept most people in New England inside, staring at the snow as inch by inch it accumulated. The weather people grabbed the lions share of daytime TV as they peppered their conversations with numbers reserved for storms to be remembered. It was not uncommon to see official snow totals in excess of 30 inches. News crews showed streets in cities devoid of people and traffic. No one envied their jobs as they braved gale force winds to fill in the newscasts with soundbites and vidiobites. Even as I type this we can still expect 6 more hours of winds and snow ending about midnight. Snow sculpted by high winds ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden ) The cars are the two lumps in the driveway ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden ) The snow gauge overflowed at 10 inches ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden ) Despite the snow the birds spent the day at the feeders. Juncos, usually ground feeders, know how to feed at the thistle feeder. The sunflower feeder had many groups and a lot of stragglers. The Cardinals came in ones and twos till there were about 10 in the bush The pair of doves showed up and still managed to land on the feeder The Goldfinches like to eat at the thistle feeder together. The downy woodpeckers usually like to eat alone. Tomorrow the sun will come out, the feeders will be replenished and the human will unbury the two lumps in the driveway. The birds watch from the feeders and bushes knowing where to come for a winter meal. Jerry
Wow Jerry, I've never personally witnessed that much snow in my life. The birds are so lucky to have you set out food for them. Thank you.
We never get that much either Frank! Mind you ,the entire country would grind to a halt with one tenth of that anyway I'm glad that you were able to take advantage and get some lovely bird shots Jerry. I do feel sorry for them when the weather takes a turn for the worse.Hope you can find your car soon.
I've rarely seen snow that deep Jerry. Thank goodness you're the kind person you are as birds need all the help they can get in severe weather conditions. I hope, when it all melts, it does it slowly and you don't get any flooding.
I am glad I live where I do, it's hard for snow to pile up around us i think the most we got in a long time was 3 feet. and that was a long time ago. I am too western to have gotten the storm, but glad that people and birds alike are surviving!
I think we've had snow about twice in the time we've been in Texas. It all melted the same day! Now, we're thinking of moving back to Wisconsin. They do have snow there but it hasn't piled up like that this year. dooley
We are having a good year meaning less snow than normal but winter isn't over yet and I am sure we will get more. It is really kind of nice having less snow seeing we had so much last winter.... Have fun making some snow angels...the shoveling part of it is what I hate. Hopefully things will be back to normal for you in the future.... I often wonder how the tiny creatures can make it through a winter with -30 windchills and snow...
The blizzard has moved on and left us with this mess. Just getting this cleaned up for another storm tomorrow. Random pictures of our area. Neighbour clearing snow ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden ) Cars are buried ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden )
That is a LOT of snow at one time! I feel for all of you that have to dig your way out. What a mess. I'm glad your feeder were full and I hope many other people are helping to feed them too. Be careful digging yourself out.
So that's where all that snow ended up landing! Wow, that was a big load too. We were supposed to get a lot of that snow but the temps just went up high enough to change it to a rain snow mix, but mostly rain. NJ (where I recently moved from) was supposed to get hit hard but they got lucky like we did too. Hope the shoveling and cleaning up wasn't too bad for you. Let's hope that's it for this winter.
