Adirondack Outdoors magazine hits stands and web week of April 1
Barred Owl photo by Peg Flora
Golden Eagle out my window could be zoomed a little, beautiful bird
Winter hangs on for another week as it only got above freezing one day and snowed the other six. That damn groundhog is to blame for sure. We have to blame it on something.
While we’re fighting the cold weather the folks near Fort Collins, CO were battling a forest fire.
There is a ban on outdoor burning here in New York. This time of the year most forest fires are caused by people burning brush and the fires get away from them.
Since the spring burning ban has been in place for the last few years the amount of forest fires has gone down considerably.
Many of the locals have taken off for the south lands over the spring school break.
Many are hoping the snow will be gone when they return, but I don’t think that’s going to happen this year.
There should be a good run-off and the lakes should be full long before the tourists arrive this year.
I shoveled a couple camp roofs this weekend but others seem to only have a foot or so of snow on them.
Those two warm spells we had midwinter knocked down the snow totals on them, or they slid off if they were tin.
I shoveled out for my bird blind down by the pond. There was over two feet of snow there—a foot of fluff on top and a foot of packed crust on the bottom.
