Monthly Archives: February 2024

The actual temperature is supposed to be 33°F this morning in Estabrook Park, but the breeze and humidity make it feel like 24°F, and the thick layer of clouds between us and the sun does not help at all. I was pleasantly surprised to find a common merganser hen on the river again, so sheContinue reading “Almost feels like winter is back…”

If you don’t live around here, and/or you didn’t watch live television last evening, you may not yet have heard that Wisconsin had its first ever February tornado touch down last evening. So, there’s been a change in the weather. The sun is bright, the sky is blue, and I even had enough light toContinue reading “Blown away…”

Now that’s more like it! The skies were not crystal clear in Estabrook Park this morning, by any means, but they sure were clear enough to let some sun shine in and let some blue reflect off the river water. For these pictures, that makes all the difference in the world. The critters were notContinue reading “What a difference a day makes…”

The recent grey weather continued in Estabrook Park this morning. I did manage to hear plenty of birds on my walk, and I even saw some out on the river, but I didn’t see a single picture worth taking today. Oof. Instead, let me show you a fun flashback from almost exactly one year agoContinue reading “Something to look forward to…”

It’s another grey day in Estabrook Park, but the show must go on, so here’s who was out and about this morning. The buck with just one antler, who we last saw on the northern island back in October, was up and on the move. And today he had a doe with him. Yay! TheContinue reading “Just a couple of bucks….”

Jeepers! February just won’t give me a break. The skies are as grey as ever, and the critters won’t come out to play, but here are a couple that I managed to capture on film anyway. The red-tailed hawk, which we saw appearing to dry itself off beside the river last Thursday, was still dryContinue reading “Stuck in the doldrums of not spring and barely winter…”

Once again, the forecast clear skies didn’t arrive until this afternoon, and with all the snow and ice just about gone now, it was a bit dreary in Estabrook Park this morning. Not all the winter exotics have fled yet, however, and I counted eight common mergansers on the water around the northern island: twoContinue reading “Nevermind the groundhogs…”

This morning got off to such a nice start. As the sun approached the horizon, and dawn began to break, I could see that the skies were clear, and there was none of the expected fog. Plus, the air was still, and it was a bit colder than forecast, at 31°F, so the muddy pathContinue reading “Trying to focus on the bright side…”

I didn’t get to see either of our two, that I know about, resident groundhogs this morning in Estabrook Park, but if they did poke their heads out they sure would not have seen their shadows here today, which means spring is on its way, and that sure tracks with the weather we’ve been havingContinue reading “Happy Groundhog Day!”

The thaw that began in January continues, but it was cool enough last night, and skies were clear enough to add radiant cooling, so that much of the river trail mud had refrozen, and I could walk on it again this morning. There are still a few common mergansers around on the river, but whoContinue reading “February gets off to a nice start…”