Getting a bit Warmer

A couple nice warms days brought on a nice snow melt.  The yard is 90% clear now.  Yeah!!  Of course, it's snowing today, but, well, it is spring.  I was talking with a fellow the other day and he said that you could count on the worst of it being over when the buzzards returned and they returned a few days ago.  Hmm, okay, sounds good to me.  He said that he had worked with local Native Americans for years and this theory was theirs and his observations were that it was true.  Like I say, sounds reasonable to me.  If I didn't have feathers on my head, I'd prefer to wait until it got a bit warmer too!

Managed to get a lot of paddock clean up done with the warmer weather.  With 5 horses out there, they do a fair amount of shitting during the winter that I can't get out of there until spring.  Looking a lot better.  Of course, I've replaced the shit with shedding hair.  I leave the hair out there in case the birds want it for their nests and as I mentioned before, the Raven's seem to quite like it.

Started a 5 day spring worming regiment on the horses today.  It went really well.  Couldn't believe it, but it is only day one.  By day three they run the second they see me.  By day 5, both they and I are ready for it to be over. It really went well today, odd.

Bird feeder is busy.  The Junco's arrived in mass this morning.  There had been a few here and there, but this morning there were about 30 out there.  There was one Junco yesterday that was colored quite a bit different from the others.  She was really noticeable.  I've been looking all day today, hoping she would come back so I could get a better look, but, no luck.  I noticed two males this morning that were a bit different in coloring as well, not as different as the female yesterday, but noticeably different.  The males could have been adult vs juvenile, but the female yesterday, she was truly different. They are all dark eyed Junco's and a majority are  what I know as Oregon Junco's.  I'm thinking there must be more of the non Oregon variety coming in this year, not sure why.

Well, in spite of the snow, I need to go do some more paddock clean up.  Should have it done by the end of next week.  Have to do it by wheel barrow since the tractor is still down.  Ah, well.  Later.