From The Heights. #44

Good morning everyone! It is a sunny/cloudy morning here with a temperature of 25F (-4C). The temperatures have been very nice so far this winter. We have had a few colder days, but mostly it has been well above seasonal temps for us, and that is supposed to continue up until Christmas anyway. I will not complain about that.

Although posts have been coming out the last few days, they were mostly ones I had done ahead of time and just scheduled them to come out. I picked up some kind of stomach flu on Saturday which really knocked me down a lot. I have not had one that bad in years. I lost a bit of weight too. I am over that flu now, but I am still very tired from it since I did not get much sleep and it just drained my energy completely.

One of my squirrel friends named LB.

But things are getting better. With my poor immune system, things like that tend to hit me hard. Oh well. That is why I did not get the second part done of my snowshoe adventure. So, maybe we should do that today. Click on part 1 to read the first part.

So, I was back on the ridge, following my trail back to the car and noticing that a wolf had walked along my trail earlier. I wondered if he had been watching me as I walked past that first time. Or, was it watching me now? The tracks left my trail at one point and I stopped to look around. Sure enough, a wolf was sitting among the trees looking right at me.

One of many chickadees that used to come to my feeder at my previous apartment.

What a beautiful sight! It did not look very big though, so I figured it might be a female, or perhaps a young male. I noticed that it kept turning to look behind me, but just quickly, then turned back to watch me. I looked behind me finally and there was the male standing on my trail about 50 feet back. He was noticeably larger than the other one.

His breath was visible in the cold air as he stood there watching me. I decided to keep going and see if he would follow. I was now going down the ridge to where the snow was much deeper, but I stopped half way down to rest my hip. There was that female wolf, she had been following through the trees obviously and now stopped watching me.

A Pine Siskin.

I looked behind me and that male wolf was still there too, but closer now, and, the female was with him! Or perhaps one of their offspring. So now there are three of them. I will soon be in that very deep snow and it will be harder walking. For all of us. Except for the two wolves following on my trail. I hope this family is not any bigger.

My hip was paining terribly by the time I got to the deep snow, but I kept walking. The wolves then disappeared, guess they did not want to go through the deep snow. I never saw them again and finally got back to my car. I got my hip checked but it was not cracked at all, but I was badly bruised. Maybe I had hit something when I fell into that snow.

Male Evening Grosbeak.

Oh well, it was a beautiful day, and exciting too. Time for more coffee and do some cleaning. Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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