Originally Posted by scifan57

Here's a link to a newspaper article about the snowfall so far this winter. Still more snow to come for Saskatchewan

Poor Regina...Hopefully the sun is out to cheer people up. It can get quite dismal when the winter is too long!!

Originally Posted by skimonkey

Poor Regina...Hopefully the sun is out to cheer people up. It can get quite dismal when the winter is too long!!

It does have the effect of making us appreciate the summer even more. Another advantage of living further north is that the summer days are so much longer.

Originally Posted by scifan57

It does have the effect of making us appreciate the summer even more. Another advantage of living further north is that the summer days are so much longer.

At our peak...we can have daylight until about 9:30 PM. This will be very interesting to try to go to sleep at night when the day is still well daylight out!

Waiting for spring. This was last "spring".

Originally Posted by skimonkey

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I do think that this was the case for our deer also, however, we do have an abundance of them at this point. They are starting to become dangerous on our roadways jumping out in front of cars. Each Fall, we have big signs that our City puts up: "Don't Veer for Deer"...many do try to veer and cause severe accidents with others.

Skimonkey, cue for a story about the wildlife in the New Forest, Hants........

Deer and ponies are free to wander everywhere in the New Forest. The boundaries are closed off in certain areas by fences, and roads have cattle grids across them on the forest boundaries. If a deer jumps out in front of a motorist and is injured or worse by the motorist, the motorist is at fault, regardless ........

When I was at college, I owned a scooter and then a motorbike. I went on the RAC ACU course for advanced riders, and passed first time. Our main instructor owned a BMW 4 cylinder bike with a drive shaft, not a chain, to the back wheel. He was a first class motorcyclist and teacher. Extremely safety conscious. One night he was riding through the New Forest. A deer kept out from the dark and wrote off his bike and put him in hospital where he had to undergo extensive surgery. I don't think he rode a motorcycle again - well not for many many months. I believe the prosecution case re the accident was dropped in view of his injuries etc.

The tale reinforced my belief that the law can really be an ass at times!

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Birds aren't the only ones who enjoy hiding out beneath the snow covered bushes.

Originally Posted by Czevski

Birds aren't the only ones who enjoy hiding out beneath the snow covered bushes.

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Nice picture. It looks like he just popped up to see what you were doing.
The rabbits where I live turn white every winter, I guess yours don't?

Originally Posted by Czevski

Birds aren't the only ones who enjoy hiding out beneath the snow covered bushes.

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That's very cool.

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

Skimonkey, cue for a story about the wildlife in the New Forest, Hants........

Deer and ponies are free to wander everywhere in the New Forest. The boundaries are closed off in certain areas by fences, and roads have cattle grids across them on the forest boundaries. If a deer jumps out in front of a motorist and is injured or worse by the motorist, the motorist is at fault, regardless ........

When I was at college, I owned a scooter and then a motorbike. I went on the RAC ACU course for advanced riders, and passed first time. Our main instructor owned a BMW 4 cylinder bike with a drive shaft, not a chain, to the back wheel. He was a first class motorcyclist and teacher. Extremely safety conscious. One night he was riding through the New Forest. A deer kept out from the dark and wrote off his bike and put him in hospital where he had to undergo extensive surgery. I don't think he rode a motorcycle again - well not for many many months. I believe the prosecution case re the accident was dropped in view of his injuries etc.

The tale reinforced my belief that the law can really be an ass at times!

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That is just terrible for what happened to your instructor. There can be a lot of personal damage to yourself and your car if a deer leaps out in front of you, however, there are more incidents of people swerving over to try to miss the deer and run into a tree killing themselves. We have had several family friends that have lost loved ones because of that. One being a college student going back to school and tried avoiding a deer and hit a tree instead. Just terrible how it happens so quickly. Here, some put these "whistler" kind of things on their cars to alert the deer to stay off the roads. I don't know how much it works, but many Michiganders use it--especially in the Upper Peninsula.

Originally Posted by Czevski

Birds aren't the only ones who enjoy hiding out beneath the snow covered bushes.



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Oh...that is a splendid picture you captured Czevski!!

Did you buy a new camera--that seems so clear and close up?