Day 124: It snowed for most of the day at Longmire, all the more reason to take a walk around the Trail of the Shadows during lunch. Despite the wintry conditions, it was plainly apparent that spring is in the air. A flock of Varied Thrushes, eight to ten in number, flitted from branch to branch in the forest near Iron Mike, the same location where last week I spotted a Red-Breasted Sapsucker drilling for bugs beneath the bark of a hemlock. Small springs were flowing, creating tiny cascading waterfalls which will be dry by early summer. Trail of the Shadows and Longmire Meadow which it encircles is a unique wetland environment. Today I even saw a pair of Mallards fly up from the open water in its heart.
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