This is a picture looking out my front window this morning. We've had well over 40 inches of snow since last Friday. This is a maple tree with 11 blue birds sitting in it. Yep, blue birds.
I feed birds all year long but this is the first year I've seen the blue birds stick around during the winter. To see 11 at one time is special.
I was wondering how the deer were making out and wanted to go out back in the woods to see but you can't walk in this stuff without snow shoes. My area alone has seen over 75 inches this year. I figure they're yarded up pretty good. In snow like this I see them move single file. It has to be up to their necks around here.
Sorry for the lousy pic!
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As long as the snow does'nt freeze hard the deer will do OK. Smaller critters will find it hard though. They still have animals in Maine after two bad winters.
Sorry your getting slammed, been there. It stinks.
That bites!!!
Good man feeding the Blue Birds.
DD
I live in southern Maryland and have Blue birds around all year but don't see that many. Blue birds aren't seed eaters, what do you feed them? I have heard people feeding them meal worms and some kind of peanut butter mixture.
Your arrows will bury and you'll be looking for them in spring.
few miles from Daves house.. we got nailed again today. This is the deck railing. somewhere around 30".everything is buried...
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We are looking about the same in South Jersey.As long as there are browse to eat they will survive.I moved my target into the kitchen today so my son and I could shoot. :thumbsup: :coffee:
Went in to work today, and then they suspended delivery, so, 50 miles round trip in a blizzard. Gave a coworker a ride home, which is on my mail route. Several times the whiteout was so bad that I could not see ten feet in front of the Tundra. All the way home, anywhere that there was a break in the trees or buildings, the wind blew the snow in such volume that visibility was gone, forcing a slowdown or stop. Fortunately, there were very few vehicles out there, and most pedestrians were professionals in bright jackets or vests.
There is 15" of snow drifted onto my bedroom windowsill, my Centaur is just back from Mr. Neaves after having the grip shaped to match The Magic Bow's, and I can't shoot it. The wind is howling and I will go back in to work in the morning.
When's the next snowstorm?
Killdeer
We lost a lot of deer last year in ND and its going to happen again this winter. We were at a peak ,never had hunting so good, It'll be years now to recover. Hope for a big thaw!!!!
Dang, I like cold weather but this makes me glad I'm down south.
killdear do you really want too know when the next snow storm is. Because if you really don't want to know then you should never ask. I hope every thing is going else otherwise.
I live in Howard county and we got 38" last Friday/Saturday, in just about one night. Got hit with yet another storm again today, not sure how much it dropped this time as the wind was at 40mph+ just about all day. Bear of a week. Here's what last Saturday looked like before the storm stopped;
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Got to get up in the morning and grab the shovel again.
I wondered how the deer herd does in such extreme weather conditions.
Keep an eye from time to time on that site I sent you Killy. Them boys are good at what they do.
JL
Killy
It was in the 60's and sunshine here in Western Washington today, even some sun...I could have even did a harley Ride if it wasn't in the neighbors heated garage. Being on a higher latitude you would think it would be way colder.
Wife was actually cutting back the rose bushes in the back yard the past couple days.
If your really wanting to know how your bow shoots??? Send it out... I'll give her a work out on the 3D range on the back 5 and let you know :wavey: :coffee:
MN has a "severity index" which awards a point for each day below a certain temp and another point for deep snow.
Don't know the numbers, but that much snow puts a great deal fo stress on the deer.
Better hope for a Chinook.
I'd say you'd better get use to it. The global warming is a crock made up to pick our pockets. The real stats show it's getting colder not warmer. The jet streams pushing the colder air farther south every winter.
Besides snows great that's what they make sleds for!!
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While you guys back east are enjoying the snow, I am suffering through 60 degree weather in Arizona. The rocks here are tough on arrows when you are stump shooting.
Live in Winchester area of Va and work in Fairfax. Drove into work yesterday at 3:30am to beat the worst of the snow and got stuck at work. Waited until about 2:30 pm and headed out. Didn't get far. Didn't feel like driving the 60 miles in white out conditions. Stayed at a lovely Econolodge. Wife says the neighbors came and blew the sidewalks and driveway. Can't even get to the farm to check and make sure the house is still standing, not to mention the corn crib. Should make for a good acorn crop in a couple of years though. :)
Up here we look at the bright side of winter, we say it keeps the riff-raff from moving into state! :D
Tough sledding up here in God's Country too. It's deep enough that our horses could walk out of the pasture by stepping over a 4 foot fence, if they were bright enough.
Devils lake has been flooding for years, but NOAA predicts when the snow melts it will be 2' over it's highest point in history. We'll lose the outdoor police range, another few million dollars worth of homes & properties, and the city itself will be at risk.
Sure glad I live 15 miles out in the country...
Send some our way in Montana most of the drainages in western Montana are 50-60 percent of average snow pack. Can you say FIRE.
Matt
We're now at 52" since last Friday and over 80" for the winter. WE DO HAVE SUN TODAY!!! Not a lot of browse left for the deer around here so I suspect they'll be up in the yards as soon as they can move and you can see bushes again.
Can't wait to get back out and shovel....again. Trouble is there's no place to put the stuff.
Killy, I feel your pain. I just finished a new longbow and can't shoot it. I knew there was a good reason why I decided to go with pink fletching this year!
My gutters are collapsing from the snow on the roof now. The roof is a metal one and you physically can't get on the upper level, too high and steep and the lower level you would be risking your life. Better to buy new gutters this spring.
As it melts I expect floods in the basement too.
Its been a real bad winter here in north Iowa,the ditches are full of snow and anytime we get any wind or dusting of snow it shuts everthing down, my wife is a part time teacher, and kids have been missing alot of school because of all the snow,I have been feeding the deer and turkeys since mid Jan. is starting to get a little expensive, but me and neighbors still do are part to help the wildlife, I have already found a few young deer dead on my land and we have alot of winter left,
Crazy weather. Here I sit in upstate New York with maybe 4-6" total snow depth, and all the storms are passing to my south. Not complaining, just commenting.
Yeah,kat. Looks like it's our turn. Finally got shoveled out today.
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Pretty easy to lose an arrow around here right now. :)
I've been watching our deer try to cope with the unusual snow pack. They have been digging through the snow to reach browse and some forbs but the last storm has made that even more calorie consuming. Most have made their way to patches with greenbrier and browse within reach, including the neighbors azaleas. Also, the high winds that create deep drifts also reduce depth in places and make browse available. Unless your area has poor "range" conditions and too many deer they will suffer a little hunger but should do O.K. as long as the snow doesn't get heavily iced over. The length of time that snow covers available browse could become a factor - if these conditions persist through March then there may be a little concern in some areas.
Be safe driving everyone. There are still a few icy spots.....
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Last year I think we about 2", so far this year we have had 89" of snow. It will be awhile before I can shoot outdoors again. Thank Gosd for big basements.
Jack
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Before this last one I could still hunt!
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that was after a foot and a half had melted(day before this last storm) still about a foot and a half. And now . . .