Snow birds!

It looks like there is about 6" of snow on the chair seats and table tops.  Elsewhere there is drifting.  The creek looks like milk that's gone off - a muddy, greenish white.  I think the dog across the creek fell in.  There was much shouting, a human lay down on their dock, then dragged the dog uphill by the collar. 

White throats and juncos were up first, the the trio of usuals.  A hawk dived at the feeder but didn't catch breakfast and sat in the dogwood for a while to recover. 

I tossed some more seed on the snow.  After a while the birds came back, including a song sparrow, a Carolina wren, a male towhee, and a dove.  One male cardinal refused to let another come to the feeder.  I saw three female cardinals.  A mockingbird sat in the oak for a while.  Flocks of birds went by and a gull played on the wind.  The snow is blowing rather than falling.

At lunch a brown thrasher hung out in the hickory while the other birds kept eating.