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| There's been a lot of discussion about how this year's cold winter may affect fishing. Those hoping for a cold and late spring are probably going to get their wish. Not sure what the Farmer's Almanac says, but I saw this update from the National Weather Service:
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| Farmers Almanac called for "unseasonably cold" March and April |
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| Looking forward to spring and warmer weather, although I made a lot of money hauling road salt in the Northeast this year :-)) and no stop in sight ! |
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| I just wish it would get warm enough that the lures would quit bouncing. No closed season here and I still haven't been on the water in over three months which is very rare this far south. |
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| tolle141 - 3/5/2014 9:28 PM
Farmers Almanac called for "unseasonably cold" March and April
We get what we get for weather.
Can we do away with the farmers almanac? I have an old fart down the road from me and that is the only thing he talks about. All conversation starts with a hello and ends after the "almanac" has been fully discussed for the current time period. Two hours yesterday! |
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Location: Aurora | Almanac, moon phase, weather forecast, my neighbour's knee.
They're all decent predictors/guidelines to take into consideration when planning a trip or outing.
It could just be the volatility of this winter's weather here in MN but lately, I find myself subscribing more and more to one of George Carlin's theories regarding the planet.
"When it's done with us, the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas.. A surface nuisance." |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I know my wife's knee has helped me put a fish or two in the boat...  |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Sidejack - 3/9/2014 1:05 PM
Almanac, moon phase, weather forecast, my neighbour's knee.
They're all decent predictors/guidelines to take into consideration when planning a trip or outing.
It could just be the volatility of this winter's weather here in MN but lately, I find myself subscribing more and more to one of George Carlin's theories regarding the planet.
"When it's done with us, the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas.. A surface nuisance."
Yes. "Narrow, enlightened self-interest does not impress me." |
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Location: Aurora | Xactly!
George was so ahead of his time.
Kinda like.. Jethro Tull |
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Location: c.wis | flooding wide spred through spring, cold water temps till s. open, lots of high water into june for wis. river valley, poor early weed growth on the flowages and probably for the prime weed beds in the north woods. river fishing should be good.
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| Corso Mike - 3/9/2014 11:15 AM
tolle141 - 3/5/2014 9:28 PM
Farmers Almanac called for "unseasonably cold" March and April
We get what we get for weather.
Can we do away with the farmers almanac? I have an old fart down the road from me and that is the only thing he talks about. All conversation starts with a hello and ends after the "almanac" has been fully discussed for the current time period. Two hours yesterday!
Stop fighting the farmer magic... |
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| Sidejack - 3/9/2014 9:32 PM
Xactly!
George was so ahead of his time.
Kinda like.. Jethro Tull
More like Jethro Bodine than Jethro Tull.
Edited by LarryO 3/10/2014 8:08 PM
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| The Black Bears here in NW. Pa. got the season of spring sensed well. Sunday on my way to work a twelve day run I saw the first Bear of the year, 200 yards from the house and then on I-80 off the road near Clearfield, Pa. I saw the second one. Had to call the girls to bring in the bird feeders. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Spring? What's that?? Another foot of snow here this week and still snowing...groan.
Ice fishing for the opener this year. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 5 below tomorrow night, nine below Sunday, and 3 below Tuesday. Balmy. I'm going ice fishing. |
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| When does the ice need to be off in Vilas for the musky to get their spawn in before the opener? |
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| Larry and Steve you Wisconsin guys experience winter way too long as I'm sure alot of other areas do too. On the way up I-95 out of Baltimore from the Harbor with last load of road salt. 72 degrees at Baltimore Harbor today ! Beautiful day.....wish I was on the water though ! |
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| Road salt you are very lucky to still be getting it Cargill shut us off over a month ago looks like another 1-2'' snow tomorrow night it never ends!!!!! |
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| International Salt's stockpile in Baltimore is dwindling fast, I saw trucks from twelve different states loading. They have been getting a lot more snow than usual below the Mason-Dixon line. Four inches of snow is a big event and ice shuts them down. A lot of those states have a bare road policy for winter traffic operations and maintance. District 8 around Harrisburg, Pa. does also, however north of Perry County that changes. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | The Lake Erie Ice Boom at the head of the Niagara River, holding back a nearly completely frozen Lake Erie, might get pulled by the first week of May this year, a full month late.Possitive side is Lake Erie water temprature will still be in the 50's for the 3rd Saturday in June Muskie Opener, should be excellent fishing with schools of baitfish still around.Also mean temprature of Lake Erie water will peak out at a lower degree and colder water will return early for great fall fishing!
Now I just need to get use to the snow that came down this morning, was 90 degrees in Guyana South America when I left there a few days ago! |
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| there still ice fishing here on st clair. the lake ate a few machines this weekend. so theres lite at the tunnels end I hope |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Spring.
This is no problem up here. Easy Peasy.
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Location: one foot over the line | It has to be a long winter when i find ^^that^^ flippin hilarious!!!!!! |
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| Something tells me we'll be setting tip ups along the weedlines this opener. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Wow, it's 20 degrees up here right now. Heat wave. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Ya, but it was 8 below last nite! |
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| So far it's been crappy to be followed by mostly crappy and the partly crappy and then it will warm up. I hope |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Hey we've seen this before. Cold then goes to slightly less cold then we have a week in the 50-60's then 80 degree summer is here |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | 18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
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| Top H2O - 3/26/2014 8:12 PM
18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
It's called GLOBAL warming......not Tower, MN warming. |
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Location: one foot over the line | bcram555 - 3/26/2014 8:16 PM
Top H2O - 3/26/2014 8:12 PM
18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
It's called GLOBAL warming......not Tower, MN warming.
The polar ice caps even increased in size this year.... Al Gore is a moron. |
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Top H2O - 3/26/2014 8:12 PM
18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
It's called GLOBAL warming......not Tower, MN warming.
The polar ice caps even increased in size this year.... Al Gore is a moron.
Since 1980's the arctic has lost approximately 40% of it's sea ice. 2012-2013 was a record low for sea ice, and while 2013-2014 was not as bad, it's still part of a downward trend. There is a big difference between the weather, which is local, and effects on the global environment. |
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Location: one foot over the line | Anonymous - 3/27/2014 10:42 AM
beerforthemuskygods - 3/26/2014 9:50 PM
bcram555 - 3/26/2014 8:16 PM
Top H2O - 3/26/2014 8:12 PM
18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
It's called GLOBAL warming......not Tower, MN warming.
The polar ice caps even increased in size this year.... Al Gore is a moron.
Since 1980's the arctic has lost approximately 40% of it's sea ice. 2012-2013 was a record low for sea ice, and while 2013-2014 was not as bad, it's still part of a downward trend. There is a big difference between the weather, which is local, and effects on the global environment.
And in the late seventies we were going through global cooling... |
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Location: Smith Creek | Al Gore is a millionaire. We're the morons. |
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Location: one foot over the line | I do find it rather ironic that the ship that set out to the Antarctic to prove climate change/global warming got stranded in ice that the scientists had sought to prove was melting. However, the professor of global warming at Australia's University of New South Whales remained adamant that the sea ice is melting, even as the boat remained trapped in frozen seas. You cannot make this stuff up. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | 'Fust it rained
And then it snew
And then it friz
And then it blew'
or some such. NW Wisconsin is again covered in a new mantle of "snew" today!
Global warming my arse! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | looking forward to a sled ride tonight …
it's not spring until we have a thread about the conservation congress, those backwards northwoods hicks and legalizing motor trolling in vilas and oneida counties …
who's gonna start the thread?! |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | From the Fishing Wire today:
"30 Inches of Ice Remains on Some Wisconsin Lakes
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Up to 30 inches of ice continues to be reported on northern lakes with very few ice anglers out. Most are waiting for the melt to trigger panfish activity. As of this week, the ice road was still being used to access Madeline Island on Lake Superior, and ice anglers have been venturing out to the islands in search of lake trout and whitefish. Anglers were still reporting thick ice on Green Bay, but getting out onto the ice is becoming tricky on the west shore with access points breaking up. The east shore has better access but with any sustained warm temperatures that will change quickly. Anglers continue to report success with whitefish and also with some perch.
The ice on the Fox River is breaking up and some small boats have been hitting the water in search for the walleyes. Southeastern Lake Michigan tributaries are opening up and anglers have begun catching steelhead and brown trout on the Sheboygan, Milwaukee and Root rivers.
- See more at: http://www.thefishingwire.com/story/315104#sthash.a0CYp5XO.dpuf
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Winter storm Warning starting tonight. 12"-20" snow with more possible to go on the foot and half that we still have. Here's a recent YouTube of a fellow drilling through the LOTWs ice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u1H1uDxLVpE Lucky if the ice will be off by the end of May! If we get the snow predicted it'll be a very late ice out. Doug Johnson |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Yikes!!!! Snowing hard at the Angle. 11"-17" forecast for today with 4"-8" more tonight! Will it ever end!!! Doug Johnson |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Anonymous - 3/27/2014 10:42 AM
beerforthemuskygods - 3/26/2014 9:50 PM
bcram555 - 3/26/2014 8:16 PM
Top H2O - 3/26/2014 8:12 PM
18 Below ZERO here on beautiful Lake Vermilion last night,...40 some inches of Ice and 3-5 inches of SNOW coming tonight and tomorrow......We have about 4 ft. of snow at Spring Bay........Late Ice Out......Maybe May 21......
Al Gore is a Moron.
It's called GLOBAL warming......not Tower, MN warming.
The polar ice caps even increased in size this year.... Al Gore is a moron.
2012-2013 was a record low for sea ice, and while 2013-2014 was not as bad, it's still part of a downward trend. QUOTE]
Record since when? Downward trend since when? What was the source of CO2 that caused deglatiation 20,000 years ago? Science has proven time and time again that orbital orientation and thus changes in energy received from the sun were and are the driving forces bahind any melt. Furthermore, when it comes to CO2, it has also been proven over and over, that CO2 levels were on the rise at the same time deglatiation occured. Must've been all of those hot rods snowmobiles that criss crossed the ice cap back then... Edited by Reef Hawg 4/2/2014 1:05 PM
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Amen Reef Hawg! Gore is an idiot!!
Still forecasting 4 to 8 inches of snow for here on Friday! Will it ever end? Oops, they changed it...now Thursday with no accumulation noted. May be a chance to see green grass soon after all.
Global warming my arse!
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| I can't really see how pollution is good for the environment or how all the pollution we create doesn't have an effect on things, that aside I just hope the ice is gone by July 4th when I visit MN. BR |
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Location: Smith Creek | I suppose now we can expect a Climate Compendium challenging Al Gore's views, eh?
Then we can find out exactly how cold it was during the last ice age, when Larry was just a young whippersnapper.
All in fun, Larry:) |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | all the while the Volcanoes can keep doing whatever they want to do and not be held accountable for anything. Can't we get a law passed that eliminates Volcanic Activity?! |
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| Who needs scientists when we have muskie fisherman? |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Gotta say I'm surprised this thread hasn't been locked or the previous posts deleted as it's pretty much devolved into a political discussion with name calling. Wasn't there a thread that was frozen last week or the week before, about the guy from Hayward that Larry disagrees with, and it was anticipated there would be issues and that guy didn't read this forum anyway? Seems more innocent then what this thread has become and has the potential to become. |
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| dami0101 - 4/2/2014 1:39 PM
Gotta say I'm surprised this thread hasn't been locked or the previous posts deleted as it's pretty much devolved into a political discussion with name calling. Wasn't there a thread that was frozen last week or the week before, about the guy from Hayward that Larry disagrees with, and it was anticipated there would be issues and that guy didn't read this forum anyway? Seems more innocent then what this thread has become and has the potential to become.
That is a very long post, you could just hit the alert button and it is much easier to tattle:) |
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Location: oswego, il | Still find it odd that man has impacted every aspect of the environment but not the climate.
why are there no posts a out global warming when it's 100 out? |
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Location: MN | ToddM - 4/2/2014 2:01 PM
Still find it odd that man has impacted every aspect of the environment but not the climate.
why are there no posts a out global warming when it's 100 out?
Because then it is just a heat wave.
Ya gotta love everytime it gets cold and people make wise cracks at global warming. I'm pretty sure when a majority of the science community agree on a subject they have some good evidence to back it. |
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| It does seem to me we have far more days each summer when the water is too hot to safely fish each year:-) Good thing is we get summer net on here vs winter net:) |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | since the World is ending anyway, just fish it and don't worry about it … |
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Location: north central wisconsin | jonnysled - 4/2/2014 2:20 PM
since the World is ending anyway, just fish it and don't worry about it …
And I really think we should rally to stop plate tectonics.
I didn't see any name calling. But by all means, send it to the basement at some point.
I don't think anyone argues that pollution is 'good' for the environment, or that pollution cannot change 'things'. Just take a look at the paper industry. Since it has been nearly regulated out of business here in the US(because nobody uses it anymore right?), where it is produced with more caution to the environment than anywhere in the world, capacity has likewise grown in asia. At least the untreated wastewater from their process that flows into the rivers/ocean over there will never reach our shores, because we live in a bubble. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Good point. I'm going to stop releasing muskies because someone else might keep them. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Reefer … what is the story with paper making in Finland? they are some of the leaders? no? anyway, are they losing their industry too, or is it still strong there. I'm in the Plastics Industry but seem to remember that the Fins were aggressive in buying up Paper Mills in the U.S.. I would imagine that Finland would have as strict or maybe more strict environmental regulations than we do? Curious …
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Location: oswego, il | jonnysled - 4/2/2014 2:20 PM
since the World is ending anyway, just fish it and don't worry about it …
this is why we need to troll in Vilas and Oneida counties!;-) |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | ToddM - 4/2/2014 3:59 PM
jonnysled - 4/2/2014 2:20 PM
since the World is ending anyway, just fish it and don't worry about it …
this is why we need to troll in Vilas and Oneida counties!;- )
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Location: north central wisconsin | jonnysled - 4/2/2014 3:14 PM
Reefer … what is the story with paper making in Finland? they are some of the leaders? no? anyway, are they losing their industry too, or is it still strong there. I'm in the Plastics Industry but seem to remember that the Fins were aggressive in buying up Paper Mills in the U.S.. I would imagine that Finland would have as strict or maybe more strict environmental regulations than we do? Curious …
One of the Finnish companies(Stora Enso) owned a huge share of the coated poaper industry in the U.S. for a number of years before they ultimately pulled out because of difficulty doing the business here that they expected. They're still heavy players in the specialty coated paper industry, and Europe is largely paper self sufficient in that regard. They are largely non union run, which they unfortunately were unsuccessful in transitioning to here.
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Location: Elk River, MN | 6-12" snow starting tomorrow afternoon ending Friday afternoon - just enough to make getting to the 2:00pm opener for the MN Expo..........fun |
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| This may have been done before, but seems appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&list=PL1B4B1FE9A28F4998
I loved it.
btw - Lake Erie is opening up. Still a ton of ice along shore, but we're getting there!
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | It's back and here we go again:
Tonight
Apr 3 Snow 36°F Observed High 12:05 pm 28°F
Chance of snow:100% Wind:NE at 13 mph Snowfall 6-10 in
Fri Apr 4 Snow 38° 15° low
Chance of snow:100% Wind:N at 17 mph Snowfall3-5 in
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Location: one foot over the line | Nershi - 4/2/2014 2:08 PM
ToddM - 4/2/2014 2:01 PM
Still find it odd that man has impacted every aspect of the environment but not the climate.
why are there no posts a out global warming when it's 100 out?
Because then it is just a heat wave.
Ya gotta love everytime it gets cold and people make wise cracks at global warming. I'm pretty sure when a majority of the science community agree on a subject they have some good evidence to back it.
Evidence?? You mean the evidence that was put into a computer generated model that was made by scientists and data entry was done by scientists that recieved money from companies and gov'ts that had a monetary gain on their agenda? Do you mean that evidence? |
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Location: one foot over the line | If everyone (people, companies and the gov't) in the US stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow (including gas, oil, coal, etc etc), in 50 yrs we will have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions a quarter of a percent. |
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| Geese are pairing, Bears are waking up and out and about here in NW. Pa.... Finally Spring.. hope it lasts though |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Three days of rain, after high winds stacked a lot of ice, then 70 degree weather for next weekend, Lake Erie Ice Boom might get removed before May yet! |
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| Girls are telling me young bear is now conditioned and comes to bird feeder shortly after it being put out B4 girls go to school. ....Spring is here now
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