NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[mahk_webstah]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Hey Gene…can you vouch for a wildlife rehabilitator in our area? I found a squirrel in my road that was hit, but still alive. The only visible sign of injury is a little blood on a rear foot, but it isn’t really moving anything from the waist down except a slight movement of the other leg a few times. Upper half looks good. I have it in a box in the basement right now.

The closest one (Henniker) has some iffy reviews. 

This may be the person you’re referring to in Henniker, but we had a sick heron on our property about 10 years ago and we took it to her and about two weeks later we picked the bird up completely rehab and re-released it on our pond. She was great at least with our bird. But I think she specializes in birds And I don’t know her name.

[tamarack]

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

Hey Gene…can you vouch for a wildlife rehabilitator in our area? I found a squirrel in my road that was hit, but still alive. The only visible sign of injury is a little blood on a rear foot, but it isn’t really moving anything from the waist down except a slight movement of the other leg a few times. Upper half looks good. I have it in a box in the basement right now.

The closest one (Henniker) has some iffy reviews. 

If you can get the NH version of North Woods Law (much more numerous than the Maine ones), every 2-3 episodes you would probably see a warden/rehab contact.  Almost all have a happy ending, though one cannot know which contacts get onto the show.  The NH Warden Service could likely point you to rehabber locations.
 

A Trace is just snow falling and either melting on contact or less than anything measurable. So yes, you had that, but nothing measurable yet.

I've had up to 0.3" of wispy snow that melted out to less than 0.005", thus a trace.  Not common and it looks odd, but I've not found a better way to report.

Edit:  Moved the snowblower out of the shed and set out the snow stake.  Hope that doesn't scare off Sunday's event.

[dendrite]

Update…thanks everyone, but it just died. It must’ve had some bad lower internal injuries. I had it in a box for a few hours and it didn’t pee or poop once. I put it back out into the woods to reenter the circle of life.