Spring Log 2023

 I will continue to work on this post. Spring is slow and now late.

Febr 12  pussy willows

March 18  chipmunk came out for a peek

March 16 to 24  we had days above zero Celsius

March 26  an Eagle high in the sky above the yard

March 21  Snow buntings on the highway

April 14  6 chipmunks racing around the yard

April 15  Northern Harrier on the highway

April 16  we heard swans flying over

April 16 - We saw 3 Caribou on the Kusawa road.

               - 5 swans at the mouth of the river

April 17  driving we broke through the ice on the driveway at one spot.

April 18  13 cm of  fresh snow

April  19  high plus 7 C. it did not melt too much really, but the ditch in the yard is running as it was a week earlier. Don cleaned the driveway with his atv and the government plow truck  driver was kind enough to do our entrance. I cleared the path in front of the house.

April 21  a few crocus buds sticking out through the snow (close to rocks and small open patches) on the Aishihik road 5km in.

 April 22  3 Mourning Cloaks  on the first  south facing ridge turning into the Kusawa road 

Bruce found blooming crocuses at Ear Lake Whitehorse             

 April 24  Again this morning we woke up to 10 cm of fresh snow

April 25  -for a few days already, flocks of Snow Buntings swooping through the yard.

              -Mendenhall landing, open water on the Takhini river, the Mendenhall still frozen;

             -10 Swans, 1 Northern Harrier, 1 Lapland Longspur and 34 ducks: American Wigeons, Northern  Pintails, Common Mergansers, Mallards

              - seemingly more Northern Harriers then ever coming through,

              -1 Goshawk

               - 1 Robin, on the first overlook, Kusawa road at Takhini river.

April 26 -snowing

               - Junco in the yard

April 29  -driveway and yard wet but snow free.

                - snow depth 33 cm on the garden

May 2 -lots to report, but just now our resident gopher came out ( arctic ground squirrel) He had a little bit of a stand off with the resident squirrel, they were both rather shy, but surely  both wanting to make a statement about property rights. The gopher we chased it off, because it was eating my sweet williams.

             -snow disappearing fast!

May 3 -a few crocuses on the Aishihik bluff. Katanne says they are blooming on her hill in this neighbourhood, i will have to go look, here the snow just left 2 days ago....

           - a Comma on the Aishihik bluff

            -for many nights now  ( over a week) i hear the boreal owl, but have not seen it