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- Monday, 2/16: Snow Geese in Big Numbers
- Mary and I saw a huge bunch of about 1,000 snow geese this morning as they flew low over the house. They were heading west and were led by a duck. They were flying low enough for us to hear the wind rushing over their wings.
- We heard our first robin "tea leaf" song this morning, a sure sign that spring is coming.
- At noon, Mary and I walked Cooper to Wood Duck Pond and noticed the ice is gone off the top of the water. We also looked at Bass Pond. The water is down about 3.5 feet, exposing several dead American lotus plants. I turned a lotus seed head over and a seed fell out. It's the size of a hazelnut and looks like an acorn without the acorn's cap. We need to work at eradicating these plants, because they're taking over Bass Pond.
- I spent hours looking online for chainsaw sharpening parts. There are three sharpening tools that I use on the large chainsaw, but need for the other two chainsaws that have smaller teeth on their chains. One is a file guide holder that puts the round chainsaw sharpening file at a correct 30-degree angle and the other is a file guide, which holds the round file. The final item is a depth gauge used to measure the rakers ahead of the teeth to see if they need filing down after teeth of the chain are sharpened.
- We vacuumed bugs over and over and over, again.
- On an evening walk around the west field, Cooper saw several bob white quail running into the north woods. He froze and watching them with keen attention, then sniffed where they ran.
- I finished and sent off a survey of the fly tying class.
- While walking Cooper on his walk prior to bedtime, Mary and I heard snow geese flying overhead in the dark.
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