After a month of warm weather, these cherry trees were fooled into blooming in early January at Carnegie Museum.
Then last Monday the temperature dropped into the single digits and hit everything that couldn’t get out of its way. Nothing could protect those delicate pink flowers.
Unlike plants, birds can get out of the way and some of them decided to leave this week. In my neighborhood, there were many American robins in December but most of them have left since the cold snap. Did your robins leave, too?
Meanwhile, don’t be fooled by today’s warmth. Here’s a graph of Pittsburgh’s actual and predicted morning low temperatures for the first two weeks of January.
It’s a yo-yo.
(photos by Kate St. John)
Hi Kate and Happy New Year. The crows haven’t gone! There was a murder of them overflying our house last evening. They were so low and so close I thought we were extras in The Birds. They stage in the trees at the top of the hill opposite Beeler. That street is appropriately named Robin Road.
Anne