Amphibs are awakening, critters are stirring.

[rmb...@istar.ca]

This morning I took that walk out the laneway to our mailbox, didn't
hear anything on the way out but on the way back I heard peeps from
the neighbour's beaver pond, and several peeps from our laneway pond.
Almost back home when I saw something wiggling about on the surface of
one of the big puddles from yesterday's rain. Turned out to be a
little wee red eft, my first salamander sighting this year. It was
thrashing about but making no progress, so I scooped it up to take a
few pics with my cellphone, then gently set it down on the leaves at
the side of the road.

Out over the fields a red shouldered hawk was calling, and I whistled
back a few times, which got him circling overhead. Hearing the two
calls the one in the neighbouring territory over the woods began to
call, then the two of them were shreaking at each other.

The ice is finally breaking up, it is open about 30 feet away from the
beach now. Yesterday there was a pair of hooded mergansers swimming
and diving under the ice, today there were 3 common mergansers. An
otter went by about mid day, and this evening the beaver came cruising
by. Later on a sharp shinned hawk came zooming past the window then
sat on the tree branch, unsuccessful at a dive after the feeder birds.

I just had the dog out for a walk and lo and behold I heard a woodcock
peenting. It is the first time I've ever heard one here, they've
always been half a mile away at the open fields. There is a cold wind
tonight, no frogs calling from the little frog pond over the hill.

Rose-Marie, north of Perth Road Village

[I Macaulay]

We dropped a few trees overnight and were out of power for 24 Hours.  I got tapped on the head with a chunk of Ice dropping from a tree early in the afternoon to-day.   I don't think it helped.  All the signs of an Ice storm are gone save the myriad of broken trees and branches.  The weather continues to amaze.

The tornadoes south of us are getting scary, They are not only getting stronger and bigger but they are getting closer.

Ian

Senility has been a smooth transition for me.

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[rmb...@istar.ca]

We had a coating of ice, and at one point some pea-sized hail. It
melted away overnight, and I only picked up a few branches on the
laneway, so we got off lucky. There were some power outages just
north of us around Westport region, ours held. I was quite aggravated
at the poor internet last night during a zoom meeting, no doubt some
effect from the storm.

I lived in the Excited States for 11 years, Dayton Ohio and Tampa
Florida. I've seen some wicked storms during those years, and was
glad to get back home to Canada. Now the darned things seem to be
following me. I don't mine a summer thunderstorm, especially when
they're off to the south and they are photogenic, but I hate these
crashing high wind tree-thrashing episodes.

Rose-Marie

Quoting 'I Macaulay' via NatureList <natur...@googlegroups.com>:

> We dropped a few trees overnight and were out of power for 24
> Hours.  I got tapped on the head with a chunk of Ice dropping from a
> tree early in the afternoon to-day.   I don't think it helped.  All
> the signs of an Ice storm are gone save the myriad of broken trees
> and branches.  The weather continues to amaze.
>
> The tornadoes south of us are getting scary, They are not only
> getting stronger and bigger but they are getting closer.
> Ian
>
> Senility has been a smooth transition for me.
> Note New Hours
>
> Ian Macaulay   Carp, Ontario

> Open at 11:AM   Close at 5:00 PM45.2397 N long: 76.0991 W Elv 137 M UTM

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/naturelist/918915855.662715.1680827783317%40mail.yahoo.com.
>

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 06-Apr-23 8:36 p.m., 'I Macaulay' via NatureList wrote:
> We dropped a few trees overnight and were out of power for 24 Hours.  I
> got tapped on the head with a chunk of Ice dropping from a tree early in
> the afternoon to-day.   I don't think it helped.  All the signs of an
> Ice storm are gone save the myriad of broken trees and branches.  The
> weather continues to amaze.

* In Bishops Mills, we had a big dead limb that had been held for years
in the branches of a Sugar Maple come down and take out a live branch as
it fell, and a neighbour had big limbs break out of a big bushy White
Pine onto the road, but those were the only major collapses. Only 10mm
of excess diameter ice on the twigs, though there were little icicles as
well, since the temperature had been very close to 0°C through the storm.

Out in the bush we have lots of small Cedars that were still bent down
by, or still embedded in, the snow, so the ice just enhanced that
bending. There was something about how the rain fell that made the
clumps of White Pine needles catch more ice than the other Conifers.
Some sapling White Pines that had grown 50 cm or so in each of the past
few years were completely bent over, with their leaders pointing towards
the ground, but they're straightened back up now.

But Hydro is still out, and isn't due to be restored for a few more
hours, so it must have been lots worse in surrounding and northern areas.

fred.
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