The weather is cold and the deer are hungry! When I got up this morning, it was somewhere between -1 and +4F depending on what source you consulted. By the time I got bundled up and headed out for my walk the garden thermometer said 8F which is just about nose-hair-freezing temps, but since there was no wind and plenty of sunshine it wasn't half bad. The roads were bare at least. The weather was clear last night with a full super moon and everything was covered with hoar frost and diamonds.
The deer are getting desperate already. This is really early in the season to be so cold and snow covered. Every Oak tree in the neighborhood has trampled snow beneath it as they rummage for acorns. They visit our landscape at night and try to dig through my wire cloches but I have them pinned down securely.
They've made a mess of the myrtle ground cover. I don't mind them eating it but they will not believe it is gone and at this point they start digging deeper and damaging the roots and throwing mulch everywhere. We put some fencing around to see if we can discourage them. In my experience the only real way to make them stop at this point is to roll out hardware cloth or woven wire on the ground.
In the shrubby edges of our lawn we can now see how many bird's nests we have. They each hold a top hat of snow for the first few times and then will dissolve and fall. I counted about a dozen nests in the immediate area between our lawn and the neighbor's driveway.
The road wreath is snow covered. Next year I am going to work some battery lights into it. I put lights on the sled wreath and they are still going strong.
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