Getting Cold in Alaska

[Tiyal]

Time to throw the chains on. 

[Nanuq]

Yeah the roads were brutal this morning! But the climbing was good this afternoon. Let's get a beer!

[SSTEEL]

Not too cold here yet, 2 degrees this morning.

[mymanmatt]

BRRRRRRR!!

[Nanuq]

11F at the mountain house this AM, all the critters are arranged around the wood stove sucking up heat. Gonna be another bluebird day, who wants to go climbing?!

[QueTip]

Damn, it's not even really cold round here yet, yet I'm already freezing like hell. Been slightly below 10°C and about 4°C at night / morning but BRRRR how do you survive this?  

[Nanuq]

Huh? It's still short sleeves weather!

[alt.watch.obsessive]

72 degrees here a mile high in the lower 48!

 

On a mostly unrelated note, I have a woodpecker that has taken a shine to my house. Any chance the little bastard will freeze when it turns cold? The internet tells me I'm not allowed to shoot it.

[panerai153]

72 degrees here a mile high in the lower 48!
 
On a mostly unrelated note, I have a woodpecker that has taken a shine to my house. Any chance the little bastard will freeze when it turns cold? The internet tells me I'm not allowed to shoot it.

He will probably migrate, but bad news, unless he gets killed on the trip, he'll be back!!


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[Nanuq]

Here's an idea, put out food to attract bigger, tougher birds. 

It's NUTS how the birds stick around during winter, we'll look outside and the little guys are puffed up like baseballs trying to stay warm.  Suet balls are no good, they freeze hard so we feed them black thistle and sunflower seeds.  And try to keep the bears off the deck!

9F this morning.  Winter is on the way! 

 

[alt.watch.obsessive]

I have been reading up on how to create an attractive home for an owl, but I'm afraid the quail would all be gone the first night.

 

We have a falcon who sizes us up hungrily from the deck railing through the window every now and then, but he's never around when I need him.