It didn’t snow much south of Duck, maybe an inch and a half when folks woke up in Kitty Hawk or Southern Shores. A little less heading south although reports had measurable amounts in Manteo.
But heading north to Corolla, there was a lot more snow. Probably 4”-5” in Corolla and it turned the Currituck Banks Estuarine forest into a winter wonderland.
It was chilly; the air temperature hovering around freezing with a breeze somewhere around 10mph that managed to find its way through the branches of the trees.
But whatever discomfort there may have been from the weather—and it wasn’t much—played a distant second to the setting. It was exquisitely beautiful.
The snow was heavy, and it weighed branches down so they formed arches over the boardwalk. The snow was a soft pure white, but as light filtered through the trees, there were different shades of white fading into grays.
There was a squirrel at the beginning of the walk, but the sight of a human sent it scurrying up a tree.
At first there was only the sound of the new fallen snow among the branches, pieces of snow falling to the ground as the wind brushed against the trees.
But finally, the birds began to fly among the trees. The dark gray of a catbird appearing in stark relief against the white background. A hermit thrush, distinctive with its mottled patterned chest, perched on a tree. Yellow-rumped warblers, one of the most common winter birds on the Outer Banks, flitted from branch to branch.
There were footprints on the boardwalk—evidence that someone had walked here earlier, but they were no longer around and the forest was filled with a wonderful sense of solitude.
A rare day indeed on the Outer Banks.
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