0.56” rain for the week.  Tuesday AM just a trace of snow pack remaining. PM71F, sunny, breezy.  Open windows, and front porch-sitting!  Red-shouldered hawks crying and soaring all week.  0.30” Warm rain at night melted all remaining snow/ice,ending 17 days of snow on the ground.  Ground soggy, ponds coming up, creeks flowing.  Deer in the front & back yards as well as out in the hay during the week.  Foxes screaming close to the house Wednesday night – sounds like a person in agony.  Thursday noon, we spotted a pair of coyotes 150' from the house by the upper pond.  They separated and ran off, stopping to glare back at us.  The critters like to use our mowed paths through the hay as travel lanes.  Lots of turkeys talking Friday & Saturday morning. At night, barred owls keeping up the conversation. Sunday as I'm typing this 6 jakes strolling thorough the front yard.  One looked like he had notions of coming up the steps.  Light rain seems to bring them out. 0.26” this AM and still raining pushing us to mildly wet.