Sunday, February 28, 2010

Snow Again in February

This has been a very snowy winter.  We've had snow on the ground all month long.
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A pair of mallards and a hybrid followed the domestic ducks around the yard at the corner of Dickson Mounds Road and County 9, across from the Rare Fish Pond at Emiquon. 
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An opossum hunted in the corn field along Prairie Road.
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Looking back at Emiquon from Clark Road, you can see how Hwy 78 turns as it winds down the bluff.
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A deer posed briefly before bounding across Prairie Road and on up the bluff.
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A small herd of deer headed out across frozen Thompson Lake on the other side of the trees growing along a creek feeding the lake.
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I frequently find hawks along Clark Road. Not as many this winter as last year, perhaps because of the snow cover for most of January and February.
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