It appears that winter is here.

We were supposed to hunt Thursday, but a rather nasty storm blew in Wednesday evening. It put down about 5 inches of fine snow.

The snow was very fine, but it snowed all day.

We had a bit of wind to drift what we had. Lucky there wasn't more.

  

At this point I was sorry that Hope was too heavy to fly.

There was a Jack that crawled into this roll of wire to spend the day.

That evening it began to warm up to 43 degrees and almost every thing melted by the next morning. There was water every where, and it was no use to even try to hunt, so I fed Hope a small chunk of Jack on the fist.

We had another storm blow in last night and again we woke up to about 3/4 of an inch of fine snow. The temps was in the low 20's, and it rained on top of the snow lightly. Just enough to put a glaze on every thing. 

The worst weather here is mid December to about mid Jan. When I was flying falcons, this is generally the time that I quit. Every thing is froze up and since I was flying a Tundra Peregrine, whose kin were all in the Bahama's where it is warm. Mine would refuse to fly when the wind chill was in the minus region. When it warms up to freezing I will take Hope out hunting again, but not until then.

Its been a weird day. First a Bald Eagle, apparently in its forth year was sitting 

down by the creek. 

Then I hear Jessie's "war Cry" and look out to see a juvenile Red Tail trying to get to her. Apparently hunting is pretty tough with all the snow. He might think about Jacks for a food supply.

I was supposed to help a friend about 15 miles South, but the wind was really whipping and it was snowing sideways at his place and he wisely decided to stay home. We had nothing here, not even wind. We are in sort of a pocket here that funnels storms around us. It will rain like crazy just 6 miles either direction from here. Since I am not dependent on rain or moisture, I like it. Neighbors not so much.

                                                           This was all we had left for a Sunset.