Lake Ice

The ice on the lake started to move today. We had a rather stiff wind today from the south and it started to pile some ice up on the rocks. Like the old song, "It won't be long now" once lake ice starts to move around with wind "ice out" is not far behind.

The earliest "ice out" date is April 9, 1945. The rate we are going we could be in for a new record. We will just have to wait and see what "mother nature" has in store for us. The latest date for "ice out" was May 23, 1950. Two years ago we had a rather late May 13 lake opener. The Walker Pilot keeps these records.

I am going to upload a picture of our black squirrel that we call "Blackie". Blackie survived our winter in fine form. I wrote about our black squirrel last fall in one of my posts. The Bald Eagles are back in their nests. We have two eagle nests in the area. One is located on Oak Point Estates and the other is located close to the Oak Point Road down at the "Narrows". Raccoon's and skunks are out.

I am starting to have some concern about lake water levels. We have not had any snow and just some light rain so far this March. We will need some April showers to keep lake level at spring levels.