Today's squirrel pictures

Here is today's capture...enjoy

Cold, cold, cold

Woke up this morning to -20 degrees F. I swear I don't believe we are going to have spring this year. I was just reading in the Daily News Minus "The period from Feb. 12 to March 20 was the coldest on record, according to Aycock. The average temperature was minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit, about 17 degrees colder than normal." It was in an article titled "Underground frost stopping up septic and water lines in Fairbanks" This I do know, mine is still frozen. Let me tell you what a pain that is. Along with the extreme cold temperatures the snow fall this year is way down "Snow usually acts as ground insulation but this winter only a thin blanket of 26 inches had fallen as of Tuesday, the fourth-lowest total on record to date, according to meteorologist Don Aycock at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. Normally there is more than 5 feet of snow on the ground at this time of year, he said." Global warming where are you is what I'm saying. Someone please notify Al Gore...

Photo Book

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Thinking of spring and it's snowing

Sigh, spring is so far away here in the Great Land...

Little Female Squirrel

You can tell from this little girls belly she's got a nest with babies somewhere close. She comes late in the evening to eat at the feeder, she hits the syrup and peanut butter cup first...then starts on other goodies. I would love to see her little pinkies if I knew where her nest was. Even though I woud not want to bother them at this stage I still would love to peek.

Squirrel Eye Candy

I awoke this morning to the temps being well above zero at 12 degrees F. Just a hint that spring may be on the way even though we are expecting snow showers. Nonetheless, I'll post this little eye candy picture of my little squirrel buddy.

Enjoy

Spring just might be on it's way

Today, the sun was shinning and it got up into the low 20's...I was out on the front porch and just sucking up that wonderful heat and sunshine. This last month has been one of the coldest on record according to the tv local weatherman. It's an amazing thing to think that 20 degrees is wonderfully warm but living in North Pole, Alaska and through one our winters sure makes you appreciate that warmth.

Hopefully, our cold spell is broken and we will get some more spring time weather...

Red Poles at the Feeder

Such pretty little birds at the feeders, Common little Red Poles. Today was a sad day, this morning upon awakening, and letting out the dogs. I notice a little body laying in the snow bank out beside the feeder. It was one of my little Alaskan Northern Flying Squirrels. Something, most likely an owl had gotten him, he was headless and half eaten. The dogs must have spooked the predator away. The squirrels come to my feeder to eat, not to be eaten. I know it's part of nature but nonetheless, it still not a good thing to see.

Squirrel Cam Pictures

Here is todays pic

Cold snap

Here it is suppose to be spring, and we are having below normal cold weather. I'm wondering where is all this global warming. I'm just kidding of course but winter isn't wanting to leave our part of the world. It's hanging on by it's icy nails. We have had little snow to insulate the ground that my septic line has frozen, I'm waiting for the steam truck to arrive today, and steam out the line. I've know of some folks who are having similar problems and even some have had their wells freeze. We still have water but can't use the drains...

Living in the far frozen north has it's advantages. When your septic lines are frozen, the advantages are hard to find. Specially at the cost of 110 dollars an hour for a steam truck and operator to come thaw them out.

Red Squirrel Cuties

Here's a beauty shot of a little Red Cutie at the feeder.

Cold, cold, cold

There comes a time every winter when the cold weather really gets to me, and I wonder why and the hell I live where I do. Well, it's that time. The Squirrel Cam Thermometer says it's -39 F or -39 C, the only time the two ever meet. That meeting doesn't do anything for my mood either. It's cold enough to spit and hear it crack before it hits the ground. A friend of mine who lives in North Carolina, sent me a few pictures in an email of the flowers starting to bloom and grow in his yard. My spring is so far off for anything green to grow I can't even imagine it. The only thing growing here is ice and the permafrost. Sigh

Squirrel Cam Pictures

Here is a close up of one of my little Red Squirrel Buddies

Winter

Here it is the 28th Day of February and it was a cool -40 F this morning as I drink my first cup of coffee. Life in the far north, has it's drawbacks. And this is one of them for sure. I'm looking forward to the lengthening daylight, and a lessening of the extreme cold with the slow slide into spring. It reminds me of that old Johnny Horten Song, "when it's spring time in Alaska, it's 40 below"

Help in Identification

Hello Robert,

I wonder if I could impose on you to post something on your blog for me regarding bird information. Here, in NC, we have an incident of what we believe to be poisonings of song birds. Nice, folks, huh? I park in a parking lot in downtown Raleigh (capital city) and we have been finding little piles of saltine crackers with some blue substance either smeared or dribbled onto the crackers. We believe that this is an effort to poison birds that sit in these trees and, naturally, occasionally poop on the cars beneath them. I have called in our state Pesticide investigative personnel, but they've never seen anything like this and the lab does not have the capability of testing for just any substance, so if we have some sort of lead, something someone else has encountered or seen to point us in the direction of what kind of substance this is, would be very helpful. We have racked our brains and just can't come up with anything that would be of a benign nature that is this color that anyone could be putting out for the birds. There has been some heated discussion in years past among some of the patrons of this parking lot pertaining to the yearly and seasonal presence of cedar waxwings that come through about this time of year in flocks and feast on berries on the downtown landscape trees. I think it is extremely coincidental that these mysterious crackers would appear just at the time these birds come through this year. Any help you or your readers could offer would be just wonderful.

Kathy
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Kathy Imbriani
Laboratory Research Specialist
NCDA & CS
Plant Industry Division
216 W. Jones St.
Raleigh, NC 27603

Mailing Address:
1060 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699

919-733-3930 x 225
kathy.imbriani@ncmail.net

Cold snap

The permafrost crop is blooming, with this latest cold snap we have had. Last night, the tempertures dropped down to a cool -48 degrees F. No matter how one looks at it, that is cold. Extreme cold and its suppose to fall in the same range tonight.

Red Squirrel

Here is a shot of todays little Red Squirrel who visits my feeder. Even if it's cold here on the Permafrost Ranch, they always come for something to eat.

Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow's New Blog

Greetings from far frozen north, it was a cool -38 degrees when I first got up this morning. I spent the better part of yesterday putting up a new blog for the Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow, and here is the addy for those who want to share:

www.midnightsunpowwow.net/blog/

bob

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A friend of mines music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmVkuXlktEk&mode=related&search=

Life on the Permafrost Ranch

Sorry Readers, I've not blogged any new pics or comments in quite the while. I guess it better to remain silent and be thought the fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. :-)