“Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.” Wim Hof
Birds and humans alike have recognized the dangers of the extreme cold. More food and shelter from the wind will help tremendously.
But the cold is showing. It has had an immediate and dramatic effect on the open waters around Marquette.
Before last weekend was over, ice had completely closed off much of the open water where more than 500 mallards and a smattering of American black ducks and an American wigeon lounged through the afternoons on the Dead River.
The lower reaches of the river followed quickly behind freezing out to just past the Lakeshore Boulevard bridge, leaving just over 100 of open river before reaching Lake Superior. Over half the ducks, including the wigeon and a male green-winged teal headed out onto Lake Superior near Hawley Street earlier this week, but it too all but closed up by Wednesday.
One injured in Berlin snowmobile crash
February 11, 2021BERLIN On the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 5, a 51-year-old woman from Hooksett was injured after her snowmobile fell onto the ice of the Dead River in downtown Berlin.
At approximately 2 p.m., 911 received a call for help from a snowmobiling party that was located at a bridge next to Snowmobile Trail 108 in the vicinity of Pleasant Street. The caller advised that a member of his snowmobiling party had gone off the trail and fallen onto the river ice and was requesting assistance at the scene.
Upon receiving the call, personnel from the Berlin Fire Department, Berlin Police Department, and Berlin EMS responded to the scene. There they located the crash victim on river ice below a steep drop off. Crews were able to extract the victim from the scene, and she was subsequently taken by Berlin Ambulance to Androscoggin Valley Hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Before He Became a Turncoat: Benedict Arnold’s Invasion of Canada
On the snow-blasted Plains of Abraham, American forces prepared to launch an attack on the English citadel at Quebec. It was a recipe for disaster.
Here s What You Need to Know: The ambitious Canadian campaign ended in defeat, but the American forces had lived to fight another day.
Fresh from his capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Colonel Benedict Arnold in the summer of 1775 lobbied hard to the Continental Congress for authorization to lead an expedition to the lower St. Lawrence River and attack the English citadel at Quebec. He was prepared, said Arnold, “to carry the plan into execution and, with the smiles of Heaven, to answer for the success of it.” However, after careful consideration, Congress gave the command to Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, a prominent New York landholder, with Brig. Gen. Richard Montgomery, an ex-British captain, serving as his second in command.
“If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.” Robert Baden-Powell Birders learn that listening
Sue Danielson
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