Could It Be That The Pomfret Bald Eagle Has Moved To Sharon?

by Vivian Moore, Sharon News
With the Happy New Year greetings, our gifts abound as neighbor Babs Bacon called to share her sighting of a bald eagle flying down the river as she crossed the bridge in Sharon Sunday morning.
We also had a wonderful gift of friendship as a younger friend from Sunapee, NH came for a long weekend to help us cut and split wood. It was a big boost on our late start and wonderful expression of friendship working together.
New Year’s morning we were greeted with a flock of bluebird pairs on their birdhouses, in the lilac bush and buzzing around with goldfinches, grosbreaks, chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers. It was disconcerting to see bluebirds on New Year’s Day, but yet again what a ray of hope of spring during these past gloomy foggy days. May they find enough to eat as they wing their way around our mixed up weather scene.
During the last week of December, we found some large worms crawling on the snow during the warm days. No one had sighted them previously except once last year when I saw them as I was snowshoeing across the pasture. Our resident entomologist didn’t recognize the description, so Miss Aimee checked online. Apparently, in 2010 someone nearer the coast had seen them. It appears that they are most likely cut worms, which will travel about on top of the snow in their hunt for your gardens. They are the larvae of the Ila Underwing (a moth) and the moth is called the Cabbage Looper.
Tuesday, Sheryl Miller arrived to help Mike for a short time as he is beginning to have the follow-up doctor’s appointments. His progress is slow but sure. With our icy conditions, he must stay pretty close to the house having one leg, which isn’t yet up to par.
The Sharon Church Stitch Group will meet on Jan. 9 at Steele Chapel. Anyone interested in sewing or to learn to sew is welcome. Please call Lynn at 802-299-9236 for details of this gathering.
Happy Birthday to a large group of friends this week. Sheryl Wood, Phil Pomerville, Glenn Kenison and Sarah St. Peter. May you all begin a peaceful, healthy and prosperous New Year!