Ponds in Canada

[callingcolleen1]

I have just a few that I had that were in the front yard pond. Spring should be here today, temperature should get up to plus 14 Celsius, I think that is in the 50 F. There is still a chunk of ice on the one side of bottom pond where the sun is not reaching yet. The ground there is still frozen hard too and the last piece of net is still suck to the ground in ice also.
Even though it is still so warm, the ground is still so frozen and at night it gets frost on the truck even though temperature never got to actual freezing. The cold hard ground is like a deep freezer, but in some areas where the sun shine, the ground is starting to defrost.

 

[callingcolleen1]

] I just HAD to HAVE this beautiful metal art... Please Don't tell the hubby I bought this expensive garden junk!!

 

[addy1]

View attachment 67088] I just HAD to HAVE this beautiful metal art... Please Don't tell the hubby I bought this expensive garden junk!!

NEVER!

 

[j.w]

My mouth is shut and very pretty

 

[callingcolleen1]

I just can not wait for spring! It is going to look fabulous by the pond this spring!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Took this video the other day, weather has been so darn nice the birds were really chirping very loud, telling me Spring Is Here!!!

 

[j.w]

Warmth will come someday again.................meanwhile we may be getting tons of rain here starting tonight Colleen and seems as tho our weather down here manages to get up your way soon after so look for some significant rainfall ahead...............sorry if it does

 

[callingcolleen1]

It is going to be plus 14 Celsius or 58 Fahrenheit in Sunday!! I have the next three days off!!!! It better not rain on my days off, so far the forcast looks good so I going to get lots of yard work started and work around the ponds!

 

[MitchM]

Colleen, do you live in the Caymen Islands or something?

Your Canadian world looks totally different than mine!

 

[j.w]

I think she is living in some kind of smokey cloud where everything is coming up green.............happy, happy, joy, joy

 

[MitchM]

Lucky girl.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Ha Ha Ha! Mitch the sun comes in at just the right angle and melts everything on that side of the house quicker than my front yard. Actually I was out raking the back yard yesterday and today! Here my little pond on the prairie seems to get more sun than you Mitch, I think you are deep in the wooded hills and it takes longer for sun to get over the hills there than here.... Plus I am further south than you, poor Mitch! Are the birds singing in the snow up there yet?

 

[MitchM]

I get lots of sun because I'm on top of a hill. I think because you're in a valley you get hotter hots and colder colds than I do.
Plus i think I'm about 1 kilometer higher in elevation.
The trees break the wind for the most part.

I've been keeping the bird feeders full all winter so we have lots of black capped chicadees, white breasted nuthatch, woodpeckers, bluejays and whiskey jacks.
The chickadees are starting to make some noise lately.
How about birds around you?

 

[addy1]

The birds here were eating 40 lbs of food every 2-3 weeks this winter. Had a neighbor kid keeping them full for me, at 10 bucks a trip to fill them. Glad he did it was a rough winter. I bought two feeder that hold 20 lbs of food each, thought they would last a month.................npe.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Mitch the birds make so much noise here in the morning, they tend to drown out the sound of my voice, did you hear the noisy birdies on my post back there? I get all kinds of little birds and woodpeckers too, they come for my home made suet, made with real old fashion lard, lots of different seeds and dried fruits all mixed in. Plus they love to eat the rotton crabapples this time if the year too, they probally get drunk off the fermenting wine inside the crabapples. Lots of birds just never leave now, they live by the pond in the side of the house on that big vine all year. There is so many that they are actually getting to be a problem with pooping there and I must go and clean up after them every spring with the hose!