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Ice goes out of lake on St. Patrick's Day

Spring has come early this year. The ice started breaking up in Round Pond in Charlotte at the beginning of the week of March 12, and the ice officially went out on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.

Spring has come early this year. The ice started breaking up in Round Pond in Charlotte at the beginning of the week of March 12, and the ice officially went out on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. For people who record the ice-out days, do you have other dates in March for ice-out? Wellington Johnson James and Mildred Sherrard recorded in a journal that ice went out of Round Pond on May 1 in 1940, March 18 in 1941 and March 25 in 1943.
Pennamaquan Lake has many holes and several strips of open water, but ice is not out as this writing on March 19. It is said that ice is out when one can take a boat from one shore to the opposite shore. It has been a very strange sight to see the many holes open up in the pond and lake this year.

It certainly has been an unusual winter all around. Two robins spent the winter at the Annas farm this year and ate the many apples that were left on the trees and on the ground. Other signs of an early spring have been the return of flocks of robins, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, juncos, geese and other birds during the week of March 12. There have also been skunks and raccoons out and about. Several people saw three large raccoons under a bird feeder one night last week. A turtle has come out of hibernation and was seen swimming under a thin layer of ice near the shore at Pennamaquan Lake.