Day 18.034: Unaffected

Our storm today brought us an inch or two of snow, soon weighed-down by first sleet (ice pellets) and then some normal liquid rain as temperatures just peaked above freezing briefly. This being Maine, life went on pretty much as normal throughout.

On another note, I was thinking about the fact that some birds are very much affected in terms of finding food by a thick blanket of snow on the ground and some are relatively unaffected:

Downy woodpecker on a small tree limb

I'm sure the cold affects their food source somewhat, but snow - not so much.