Snow in NJ.

3-1-23 SHORT HILLS: The storm from Monday night chased us back to NJ during the day. The roads in VT were wet, but not snowy or icy. When we got to MA, the roads had dried out, and there was less and less snow as he moved south. CT, NY and NJ had little of no snow and dry roads. 

Now we have snow here, maybe two inches left of three that fell, slush on the paths and snow dropping off the trees and shrubs. I haven’t seen any damage as yet. Today is in the forties and tomorrow will be in the fifties, which should melt a lot of the rest of the white stuff.

The feeders were all empty when we got back to NJ, so I filled them all with seeds and suet blocks. Within minutes they were swarmed. I noticed a couple of red-wing blackbirds, males, on Tuesday, and thought that they usually travel with the grackles. A gaggle of grackles appeared that afternoon, at least three dozen, who mobbed the feeders and ate all the seeds and chased away all the regular customers. 

 More snow due in a few days. Even so, I always feel winter’s over when we hit March 1 even though the sun is still below the Equator, and the Equinox isn’t until the 21^st this year.  

Snow on Tuesday morning, only about three inches, but coating everything.

After the driveway was plowed.

Cardinal is easy to spot in the snow. There's a wren in the picture also.

The grackles have arrived. There are a couple female RWB's in there also.

One grackle and two female RWB's.