Well, my Essex Junction, VT maple adventure continues with my 5/16 drops to buckets.
Feb 13 I tapped 10 taps... 2 sugar, 8 norway.
Feb 19 I tapped 4 more... 1 sugar, 1 norway, 2 silver (this is a huge tree that could easily do 6, but I'm keeping all trees to 1 or 2 at this time)
So far my total sap yield season-to-date is 12 gallons, 4 of which were from the last 24 hours, which I've been reducing down to quantities that can be kept in the fridge.
My record keeping now includes morning, mid-day, and evening temps.
I think these yields are trying to tell me the floodgates are not yet open, though the norways are a factor on the low yields... they are contributing very little.
The last day above freezing for a bit is tomorrow, so sometime this week I'll make a little syrup in the kitchen from what I have collected so far.
I'll bring it up to 30 taps in late February or maybe even the beginning of March.
Depends on whether we get another day that might run in February... if so, I'll finish the taps then.
The majority of the remaining taps are sugar maple.