Lots of cardinals and the ubiquitous sparrows were busy. There was an owl watching them and the squirrels earlier in the day, but he got chased away by 3 crows that were pestering him. We've also got a couple of small woodpeckers, some chickadees, some doves, and the occasional blue jay at the moment.
I do expect the critters to be hungry. I'm nearly out of sunflower seed (expecting more as soon as UPS starts delivering again), but have more suet I can put out once I'm reasonably sure it won't get buried by snow.
We've got about 12" of snow on the ground now - it's been snowing since about 1 PM. It's been pretty steady all day and all night so far - very powdery. The wind is supposed to pick up and we're supposed to get some stronger bands of snow later.
Looking at the radar, it looks to me like we'll get some heavy stuff overnight but then it will be done. Unless the backend suddenly gets some more moisture somewhere, it sure looks to me like it'll be over here very early tomorrow - about 12 hours sooner than they seem to be projecting. I doubt we'll get over 18" (on the low end of the forecast, but still pretty close!). One of the local TV weather people had a model up saying that Dulles will get 30.1 inches of snow. It must be right, it's got a decimal point!!1 :-/
No problems with the power around here, but the NYTimes says 100,000+ are without power in NC. They got a lot of sleet and ice down there. My dad is doing Ok so far. (whew!)
Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone. So far, it's working!
Cheers,
Scott.
I do expect the critters to be hungry. I'm nearly out of sunflower seed (expecting more as soon as UPS starts delivering again), but have more suet I can put out once I'm reasonably sure it won't get buried by snow.
We've got about 12" of snow on the ground now - it's been snowing since about 1 PM. It's been pretty steady all day and all night so far - very powdery. The wind is supposed to pick up and we're supposed to get some stronger bands of snow later.
Looking at the radar, it looks to me like we'll get some heavy stuff overnight but then it will be done. Unless the backend suddenly gets some more moisture somewhere, it sure looks to me like it'll be over here very early tomorrow - about 12 hours sooner than they seem to be projecting. I doubt we'll get over 18" (on the low end of the forecast, but still pretty close!). One of the local TV weather people had a model up saying that Dulles will get 30.1 inches of snow. It must be right, it's got a decimal point!!1 :-/
No problems with the power around here, but the NYTimes says 100,000+ are without power in NC. They got a lot of sleet and ice down there. My dad is doing Ok so far. (whew!)
Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone. So far, it's working!
Cheers,
Scott.