{"id":3162,"date":"2013-01-08T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2013-01-08T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:18:10","slug":"january-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"January Snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a decent amount of snow fell overnight and this morning, a good six inches of dry fluffy snow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3171\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3171\" title=\"1-7-13-snow1\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes a lot of snowflakes to bend the sturdy pine and fir branches.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tree branches hold snow until there is just one snowflake too many, and then they bend a bit more and release a cloud of snow.\u00a0 Dan got to experience that first hand today when he was plowing the driveway.\u00a0 I was snug inside the house and didn&#8217;t get to laugh, err watch him when he became inundated.\u00a0 I could just imagine it because many is the time I&#8217;ve helped a branch release a fluffy cloud of flakes on Dan&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3172\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3172\" title=\"1-7-13-snow2\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tallest and darkest tree down the hill from our house, about the middle of the picture, has been a popular perching tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we had an adult Golden Eagle perching at the top of the tree described above.\u00a0 And today an adult Goshawk occupied the same branch.\u00a0 Opal has a birds-eye view of that tree from her windows and she told us about both birds.\u00a0 She chased Mishkin from the living room yesterday when the eagle was around.\u00a0 She can get very loud.\u00a0 He left the room with both ears folded back and a funny look on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Our outside bird flock was very happy to have seeds and suet today, and it was a regular party in our front yard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3173\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3173\" title=\"1-7-13-snow3\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-7-13-snow3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan shoveled the sidewalks and ran the snowplow. It was supposed to get warmer today than it actually reached. He took care of the important things first, refilling the feeders and putting up a block of suet, or he&#39;d have never made it to the snowplow.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once the Goshawk made its appearance, the ravenous flock of Clark&#8217;s Nutcrackers all left the vicinity.\u00a0 And as a result, this afternoon as the sun is going down there is still suet on the suet tree.\u00a0\u00a0 All the birds take the presence of this top predator very seriously.\u00a0 Tomorrow they will have forgotten and there will be plenty to eat as soon as the sun comes up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3174\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleeping-cat-lay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3174\" title=\"sleeping-cat-lay\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleeping-cat-lay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleeping-cat-lay.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleeping-cat-lay-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hard at work dreaming of catching something, anything. A toy, a mouse, a toy mouse. He spent all morning looking out of the windows and wishing he could get outside and play. He wouldn&#39;t actually like the snow but he has never set paw in the snow so he remains clueless about it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a decent amount of snow fell overnight and this morning, a good six inches of dry fluffy snow. The tree branches hold snow until there is just one snowflake too many, and then they bend a bit more and release a cloud of snow.\u00a0 Dan got to experience that first hand today when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}