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tle larger each year and has been in that same spot ever since i ve lived in the cabin and who knows how long before that this morning i am blessed in a dry season with a bit of spring drizzle not much unfortunately enough even so to make the birds sing and see the leaves of the smaller forest trees now edged with pale green the rue anemone are blooming too so it is spring and it feels like an early spring after one of the warmest marches ever looking ahead the first half of april at least looks cool perhaps the weather will keep spring at this level for a while i would like that for i like this time of year before the oak leaves burst open before the underbrush makes woods walking difficult it s a bit like november after the leaves have fallen but warmer it s a time when i can see over to the next mountain and sounds aren t yet muffled by the leafy canopy i wouldn t mind if this time of year stayed for a while and didn t rush into summer or even full spring perhaps it will happen posted by carolyn h at 9 48 am no comments labels trout lily monday march 28 2016 odd and ends lichen and bark i m still coughing from that dratted awful cold but mostly i am back to normal here on roundtop spring is starting to spring i see yellow rumped warblers fairly regularly the american coot that set up shop on the little snowmaking pond is still there the bird seems healthy and happy but why it has chosen this little pond to hang out on when bigger ponds and lakes abound isn t something i understand the dog toothed violets trout lilies etc are just about ready to bloom the stalks are up but the flowers aren t yet out i will check the patch later today again and i wouldn t be surprised if a few flowers open before evening except for two days the entire month of march here has been above average in temperature for a while it looked as though the month would rank in the top five warmest march s since recordkeeping began those two cooler days were enough to drop the month into the 7 slot so far the month is 6 7 degrees warmer than average which is pretty warm at the moment the wind is fierce following a day of light showers and fog with this kind of wind i don t venture outside very often or too much it s the kind of wind that brings down branches but hopefully not trees still i feel a lot safer with a roof over my head posted by carolyn h at 1 13 pm 2 comments labels lichen sightings spring trout lily saturday march 19 2016 breaking new ground dog toothed violet or trout lily take your pick i have had the worst cold of my life for going on two weeks my sister gave it to me and i told her during the worst of the cold that if i d gotten this cold ten years from now it would either kill me or put me in the hospital i have now returned to the land of the living though the cough and some remnants still remain no long walks in the forest for me just yet but i am well enough to wander around my own little acreage and that is where i discovered the first leaves in my dog toothed violet trout lily patch the pretty bi colored leaves aren t hard to see but they can be hidden by fall s leaves as they are only up by an inch or two at the moment it s a good thing the flowers aren t out yet tomorrow i will get what is virtually certain to be the last gasp of winter on what will be the first day of spring several inches of wet heavy snow are predicted a true onion snow as such things are called in this area other signs of spring are popping up spring is not yet exploding but it s moving forward about like when the first kernels of the popcorn start to pop the first phoebes arrived a week ago i have had an american coot on the smallest snowmaking pond for a week now it shows no signs of leaving the ski resort has closed for the season too as i type a local blue jay is performing its red tailed hawk call it started doing that about 10 days ago and is so pleased with itself that it now calls all over the mountain it particularly performs the call just before landing in my bird feeders perhaps hoping to clear the decks so it can have the feeders to itself i am glad this cold has nearly run its course in time for me to enjoy the start of spring even if i have to shovel to get to the chicken coop one more time posted by carolyn h at 8 49 am 2 comments labels ruminations spring trout lily violets friday march 04 2016 could this little snow be the last it s early even here in southern pennsylvania for the last snow to be on the fourth of march however the next week looks spring like and by the time that weather pattern is gone it will be mid march and after mid march snow becomes fairly unlikely here cold weather can abound in march but precipitation not so much so i am enjoying this little bit of snow this morning it likely won t last much past lunch time when the temperature rises above freezing despite the 31 blizzard of late january 2016 brought fewer snow events than is typical i only recorded 6 days with snow this winter and half of those were about the depth of this little snow last year was exceptionally snowy with 15 snow events against an average of 8 the snowfall in winter 2015 16 stands so far as one below average though that big blizzard sure tried hard to make up for the lack posted by carolyn h at 10 22 am no comments labels onion snow pennsylvania roundtop ruminations snow york county tuesday march 01 2016 the marcescent leaves of these young american beech trees won t be around too much longer this morning i saw the first northbound skein of canada geese a long line of about 150 birds far more than the 30 couple that are resident here on roundtop the lone male red winged blackbird has now been joined by several fellows the boys are settling on territory arriving earlier than the females who will decide later which of these singers with red chevrons on their wings has the best spot to build their nests with the disappearance of the snow cover i can once again walk through the forest around roundtop in much of winter i am restricted to plowed roads and pathways even once the snow melts i avoid the worst of the mud i own wellies which are great at keeping out the mud but not designed for long walks last night saw a mild freeze which froze the mud long enough for me to take an early morning walk tomorrow a bit more snow is called for which means today is the calm before the storm and a beautiful calm morning it is ideal for a walk in the woods woodpeckers were busy a pair of mallards were complaining about something the bluebirds were singing between them and the blackbirds the songs nearly qualified as a dawn chorus a harbinger of spring if ever there was one posted by carolyn h at 11 12 am 3 comments monday february 29 2016 leaping around winter s snow is nearly gone patches and piles remain as does ice on the lakes and ponds after a warm day yesterday i really thought the ice on the lakes would be gone so early this morning i went down to pinchot lake and discovered ice still covering it the small lagoon has open water and is currently populated by 21 canada geese but the waterfowl i m most interested in seeing don t like the little lagoon and can only be found on the large lake i would not want to try and walk on that ice at this point of the spring birds i have so far only seen and heard red winged blackbirds the robins were here all winter and it became common to see robins foraging beside juncos which i always find amusing those species can t be well acquainted with each other in this area as their timing doesn t usually overlap as it has this year february started out cold but ended up warm and so ended up being a fairly average month in the temperature department i wonder how a leap year affects daily temperature averages as today would normally be march 1 do weather people compare a leap day to march 1 or keep it separate from the other days do daily temperatures skew differently in a leap year because of the extra day it s a thought i am pondering this morning on this once in every four year event posted by carolyn h at 4 03 pm no comments labels red winged blackbirds ruminations tuesday february 16 2016 snow ice sleet rain for the moment the forest is snow covered i say for the moment because i am in the middle of one of those snow sleet ice rain storms that is a staple of southern pennsylvania winters even for here this storm is extreme yesterday morning was 4 and today the temperature will be in the 40 s yesterday i was dripping the faucets to prevent the water pipes from freezing and today i am worried about flooding the feeder birds are feeding heavily i still haven t seen anything unusual here so far this winter unless you count a sapsucker as unusual which i don t not a siskin not a redpoll not a purple finch can be found the winter finch forecast was not encouraging but it didn t sound as though i d have none of them just fewer so today s photo was actually taken on sunday when the snow was still lovely and not icy or water logged it may be the last photo of nice looking snow for a while i took the photo from the kitchen of my family s farmhouse looking over to south mountain i never get tired of this view the mountains look different nearly every day of the year posted by carolyn h at 9 55 am 5 comments labels ice snow older posts home subscribe to posts atom http about me carolyn h roundtop mtn pennsylvania united states i live in a cabin in the forests of pennsylvania i write about what i see and do in the natural world around me i ve been a hawkwatcher for more than 20 years a birder for longer than that and a crayfish catcher since i was a polywog view my complete profile facebook badge hawk migration association of north america hmana promote your page too subscribe to roundtop ruminations posts atom posts all comments atom all comments local weather and moon nature quote of the day links a cat in my lap a d c birding blog a passion for nature a pause for beauty as the crow flies beyond the fields we know by 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