I had to make the trip to Fredericton and had an opportunity to use the NB Highway system. The MRDC highway between Moncton and Fredericton is polluted with white tailed deer like this guy.
Instead of staying with the MRDC highway I pulled off at the Coytown-Sheffield Highway Bridge (where the MRDC webcamera is located) and continued up along the Saint John River through Sheffield and Maugerville to get to Fredericton.
About McGowen's Corner I crossed paths with this aloof eagle on a snag near the highway and the river.
As the picture shows the river was still frozen over but that changed in the two days that I was in Fredericton. It is warmer now and the snow is rapidly receding. This is the Fred e-zone Webcamera view of the river on April 5 ...
And April 7 ...
And today April 13 ...
So the River has opened up and there are flood warnings out. A week of warm rain and everyone will be swimming. In terms of the web cameras the Beaver Harbour image has been frozen on an afternoon image since the 7th of April. The MRDC cameras are useless for the 30 minutes to an hour as the morning sun comes over the horizon and the last rain storm took them all out again but they came back in a day. In Fredericton the Officers Square camera has been a mess for a month but there is nothing to look at. All in all the colours are grey, brown and white and probably will be for a while. And this is how the province looked today:
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