onsdag den 20. marts 2013

Vernal equinox


This morning, in Spain, people woke up on another cloudy and rainy day. Suddenly, rain stopped and clouds went away. Sun got brighter and spring arrived right on time. 12:02h on the day of the spring equinox.
This morning, in GFU, we woke up on another cloudy, windy and snowy day. And it still is! There were not many birds around apart from a Yellowhammer and a couple of Great Tit in the garden plus the habitual Eiders and Scoters – Common and Velvet - on the sea. This morning we went to do some mist-net maintenance (snow and ice removal) around the property and in the 2 hours we were outside we didn’t see or hear a single bird! Over most of the garden the snow is about 20cm deep although on the north side some of the snow drifts between the trees are over a metre deep.
 Snow drift swallowing a net
 Snow drift swallowing Teresa

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