It was -4°
F as I left the house and hadn’t even gotten to the car when there was a “Thunk …
Thunk … Thunk” sounding from a tall red maple in the yard. Up in the tree was the cause
of all that thunking – a female pileated woodpecker all fluffed up against the
cold –
Most pileateds are quite wary, but this one
ignored the human walking around beneath the tree; she finally left after she’d
extracted the insect(s) she’d been after.
With that I headed to the Big Woods to walk
an old road. The roadside ditch still had some open water and the road passed some
wet spots, called spring seeps, where warm water welling up from underground had melted the
snow.
In both areas water vapor had frozen into beautiful and delicate ice crystals –
A week later the temperature had risen to a
spring-like level putting a temporary end to the formation of ice crystals.
So many different shapes to those crystals. Very neat to see.
ReplyDeleteHello, love the woodpecker. Great captures of the frost. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Happy Saturday, enjoy your day! Have a happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe ice formations are so beautiful. It's neat to take pics of them and see them in detail. Love that big Pileated! It's always a treat to see them here too! Happy weekend!
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