It was so cold here yesterday that Mom and I took the air conditioner out of my office window.
The day before I had removed some wooden blocks that helped tilt it while in operation. I got a flood of dead and dieing ladybugs who I suspect had flown in through the cracks and not made it past the blocks. Mom was still stunned at how many she encountered while working the unit in through the window (*I* was sent outside to work in the bitter cold).
On a completely different topic we saw a pheasant walking down our sidewalk and a hawk being hassled by a couple of blackbirds.
I saw a whole flock (about 15) of pheasants walking along the hedgerow behind the house yesterday afternoon. Poor cold beasties.
