Dancing water, then snowfall

No reflections this morning - the wind has the water all stirred up and sparkling in the sun.  No feeder birds.  A buzzard soared among the clouds in a mostly blue sky.  Earlier, the clouds were very pink, and last night there was a spectacular sunset.  Around midnight a bright planet was in the West and when I got up, the waning moon was in roughly the same spot.

Now (8:30) it has clouded up.  The wind is still fierce. And now it looks like a storm. It's snowing! But it didn't last long and it wasn't cold enough to stick.   Some cold robins waited it out in the oak.

Apparently birds are panic shoppers when they see snow.  Doves and white throated sparrows scrounged below the feeder.  Wrens and a nuthatch came to the source.  Lots of wrens and sparrows are hanging out in the rosemary.  Meanwhile egrets are fighting the wind.  After the snow, the clouds started to break up and a sunbeam just found an opening.

At lunch, blue sky was back and a song sparrow was doing the can-can with the mulch. Later afternoon is cloudless.  Geese are paddling downstream.