April 17, 2021

Yesterday we had a winter weather advisory, and the latest snowfall I can remember. My parents 80 miles to the south and west had 6 inches of heavy wet snow. We had a patchy, slushy inch, but it didn’t stick everywhere, and as the day went on and it kept falling down it never accumulated further. Later in the day it turned more to sleet/cold rain, and by this morning it was mostly gone, though I can see the top of Mount Ascutney through the window, blanketed.

As with last year there’s a gap between the first arriving migrants and the waves that should be arriving soon into May. I flushed a grouse or another woodcock the other day, and have been hearing yellow-bellied sapsuckers and phoebes, but not much else close to home. On walks in more piney woods I have heard pine warblers, however. And though not a migratory bird it was cool to see a bald eagle perched in a tree in the Narrows.