Hurricane Sandy

The wind and rain continued through the night. The hurricane is due East now - 8:30am - about 5 degrees off the coast, so the wind is now out of the North.  I think that means the next high tides won't be so high, despite the full moon.  A hungry male cardinal found the seeds I scattered yesterday.  Two mockingbirds tried to snatch enough berries for a meal.  The wind has stripped most of the leaves off the beauty berry.

We had company at lunch: a dove, a cardinal, and a white throated sparrow.  The dove was scarfing up the seeds I scattered, packing its crop.  It really doesn't have the right beak to hull sunflower seeds. The birds are mostly deep in a bush, but every so often one will think it needs to change bushes.  One cardinal ran across the grass rather than try to fly.  

At 8pm, the storm center came ashore in New Jersey.  That should push water out of Chesapeake Bay.  It is still noisy with wind outside and our high tide should come around 10pm.