Icy North wind

It may have touched freezing overnight though with this wind there's no frost.  Leaves are battering the windows and the trees are half bare since yesterday.

The first bird I saw today was a female towhee.  She was joined by four or five white throats and then a dove.  Several chickadees fought the wind for breakfast as did a cardinal.  Canada geese are patrolling the creek which is shining in the sun in between gusts.

A large white duck is palling around with the mallards. A pair of Carolina wrens showed up at lunch time.  One bufflehead came paddling along with more mallards about the same time. More chickadees and white throats kept coming.  One white throat just sat sunning on the feeder perch which may have sheltered it from the wind.  A great blue heron landed on the dock and hunched against the wind. 

After dark, it was really icy cold.  Venus was bright in the Southwest again, but something bright was in the East later.