Cold Snap!

I don’t know if they will technically call this our first frost, but there was frost on the grass in Estabrook Park this morning. I don’t believe the air temperature was actually below freezing, but the sky was clear, and the wind was blocked enough in spots, so that radiant cooling was able to do the rest.

Perhaps the critters were reacting to the cold snap, plenty of whom were experiencing it for the very first time in their little lives, because nobody wanted their picture taken today. This sleeping racoon was about as good as I could get.

I probably was able to sneak this one bird picture, of our first American tree sparrow of the season, because the poor little thing had just arrived and was still getting its bearings.

Well, since we’re all here, let me show you another look at the buck from yesterday. I don’t like this pose quite as much, but it really does show off that massive neck of his. Yikes, right?

And just to round out the quartet, here’s another look at the Nashville warbler by the pond on Monday.

Tomorrow is supposed to be just as sunny, but a bit warmer, and with a bit less wind, so let’s hope we can all get back into the recent swing of things.