The snow started yesterday morning and continued through the day before turning to rain in early evening. The rain overnight took away most of yesterday's accumulation but switched back to snow again early this morning and has snowed steadily all day today. Winds last evening were pretty wild from the northeast with gusts approaching 100 kms/hr. I went out early this morning to check along the coast to see if any seabirds had got blown in overnight but the visibility was generally pretty poor and I saw nothing of note at Cap Bimet or at Point du Chene.
At the Caissie Cape wharf the snow let up for a while but there was nothing flying by except for a few Long-tailed Ducks and a couple of Common Eiders. There were still some pretty good waves breaking over the wharf (see above) and there were small numbers of Herring and Iceland Gulls sitting on the ice and slush in the basin formed by the wharf and breakwater (see below).
The Northern Mockingbird was at his usual post at the Acadie Optometry Clinic on Main Street this morning.
What a storm! I just read about it in the Times (I'm not from the area), I'm glad that everyone in the communities are safe.
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