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This guy, a northern shrike, ( allaboutbirds ), bounced off of the screen on the deck. It took a couple of minutes for it to clear it's head. Then it almost flew into the generator shed.

A closer look at it's beak. This is a predatory bird that impales it's prey on thorns. ( video  )

Not much snow left last Friday.




American tree sparrow.

On Tuesday we celebrated Jose's 32 birthday. You know that there was a good spread on.

Bonehead, Jose, Moi, Bryan, Mary, Grasshopper, Jacey with Dill, Mary-Lou, and Jon. Big Luke was the official photographer for the day.

So, he took a selfie.

Some of Luke's pics.

Yesterday we went to Camp full of "it" for St. Paddy's day dinner.

Corned beef and fixin's.

Big Luke double fisting.

The past few days have been close to + 10 during the day and not going below 0 at night. This made for some "interesting" riding. More like plowing thru the top layer of slush.

Last night went down to -10 and turned the lake into a hard, lumpy moonscape.

Yesterday we saw our first red wings of the season. Today I managed to get a pic thru a closed window.  I saw 2 geese yesterday morning and there are a ton of beach chickens on the lake.

The boys ripping the slush.

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