22 - Flocks of cedar waxwings feed on crabapple fruit. 23 - First snow on evergreen boughs and first snow sculptures of the season. Thousands of Canada geese on the south side of Lac qui Parle Lake. 24 - Animal tracking is good. Prints of deer, squirrels, rabbits and more are easy to identify.
Much fruit is left on highbush cranberry shrubs and crabapple trees.
25 - Some ice on ponds but lakes are wide open, across the state. Forest mosses on downed tree trunks and bases of standing trees are lush green. Evening grosbeaks and common redpolls come to Walker area feeders. 26 - Parsley is green and growing in gardens. Flocks of bufffleheads, diving ducks, seen on Leech Lake.