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Disfrutando de la primera nevada del año por el hayedo encantado de Urbasa. Espero que os guste y muchas gracias por vuestros comentarios. Un saludo!
Now we wait for spring. We must appreciate each season.
Thank you for your friendship through the years.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley
CN 5716 hits some snow left by the plows as they pass through the community of Apohaqui, New Brunswick, the day after the first major storm of the season dumped about 25cm of snow.
January 8,2017.
Seems like an April Fools joke almost... Last Saturday it snowed and snowed and then snowed some more. This was just the beginning of it, captured from the car as we were driving to visit out 6 1/2 week old grandson. The snow melted as it hit the highway on the way there..but coming home was pretty bad. Worth it though, to see the little darling!
Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax Nivalis
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking 'snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upperparts.
Globally, they breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. They are a scarce breeding species in the UK, in Scotland, making them an Amber List species. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
They are listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
The snow bunting lives in very high latitudes in the Arctic tundra. There is no apparent limit to its northern range, while the southern range is limited by the duration of daylight, which influences their reproductive activity. This species is found in the high Arctic tundra of North America, Ellesmere Island, Iceland, higher mountains of Scotland, Norway, Russia, North Greenland, Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land. During the winter, this bird migrates to the circumglobal northern temperate zone including the south of Canada, north of the United States, north of Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and east to central Asia. During the last ice age, the snow bunting was widespread throughout continental Europe.
During the breeding period the snow bunting looks for rocky habitats in the Arctic Since the vegetation in the tundra is low growing, this bird and its nestlings are exposed to predators, and in order to ensure the survival of its offspring, the snow bunting nests in cavities in order to protect the nestlings from any threat. During this period, buntings also look for a habitat rich in vegetation such as wet sedge meadows and areas rich in dryas and lichens. In the winter, they look for open habitats such as farms and fields where they feed on seeds in the ground.
Population:
UK breeding:
60 pairs
UK wintering:
10,000-15,000 birds
There is a section of road north of us called the Ferndale "flats". It is notorious for having white outs at that specific site when the rest of the way is clear up the Peninsula. Snow drifts accumulate pretty quickly on the highway in the right conditions and even the snowplough can't keep up until the winds die down.
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.
It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, —
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.
It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil.
--Emily Dickinson, 1896
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"I'm running out of ways to make you see
I want you to stay here beside me
I won't be ok and I won't pretend I am
So just tell me today and take my hand
Please take my hand
Please take my hand
Please take my hand
Please take my hand
Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love..."
Some lovely conditions up on the Muir in the last spate of snowy weather. Same comp as last time but much more snow.
I would imagine most of us have seen some snow in most parts of the UK today?
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