Walk before the storm

End of a cold overcast afternoon before the ice storm due at sunset, I went to the Ponds entrance to the Woods at 4 p.m. for an hour. Three deer around the NW pond. The Woods were fairly bare. The last deciduous leaves off the Bumelia are gone now. On a long walk around many of the trails there were some small branches down in the SE but nothing larger. Chickadees (and titmice) were scolding and active by the East Pond near Claire's observation point. There was water in the Wash but it stopped short of the Elm Bridge.. no water flowing at Island Crossing. The two ponds were fairly full. One place along trail there was a track of deer scraping the soil with its hoof.. like it was excavating.
Tonight fairly strong/ heavy ice storm. We'll see what is damaged.