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[kayre]

The river on Wednesday... standing on the bank, I could hear a soft swishing sound, almost like an animal in the dried grass, as the lumps of ice and slush collided.

 

Today... I had never really thought about the impact of water expanding as it freezes, on a big scale. As smcwhort reminded me, that's why the ice is on top instead of at the bottom. But it's also why the ice level is nearly a foot higher than the water level was on Wednesday; part of the park is even flooded.

 

rabbit tracks.. the first I've seen in a while

 

Deer tracks.. also the first recent signs

 

Fox tracks.. I couldn't be more sure if I'd actually seen the fox. The tracks emerged from the marsh, walked the length of the pond on the ice... jumped up to shore, then went out on the river ice and rambled along 50 feet out for about .3 of a mile before returning to shore and heading across a bare field. All of this without a human track in parallel anywhere, and it had the characteristic straight-line trot track.