Tis The Season For Snow

We've been snow covered much of the time for many weeks now, though it is all melted this morning.. These Canada and Snow Geese were in a corn field just north of my house. The dark colored birds are Canada Geese, the white ones are adult Snow Geese and the gray ones are immature Snow Geese. There is also a blue color phase in Snow Geese, but they have white heads, which is why I identified these gray birds as immature Snow Geese:

 When snow is covering everything, the farm is as pretty as a Christmas card:

 English Sparrows mobbed my porch one morning, leaving tiny footprints everywhere. Alas, they also left lots of tiny poops, which appeared when the snow melted. Both Daphne and Clover think they are dog treats:

 More troublesome are the fox footprints I continue to find using my tire tracks in the driveway as a highway to the barn. I will continue to keep the chickens locked indoors:

 Big Blue Jays also use my tire tracks while they raid the sunflower seed feeder:

 Inside the barn, the white fantail pigeons seem content and healthy:

 The nest on the floor is doing well with its two babies:

 The nest up on a shelf was doing well:

 Until I found one baby dead. Now there is only one, but it is growing at an astounding rate:

 One warm day melted our snow, but the very next morning it began again:

 I walked out into the field to give grain to Jasmine, and I was fascinated to see the pasture grasses and weeds covered with snow, creating a simple beauty:

 The dark patches beneath the snow covered pasture foliage were water. It made the white grass stand out even more: