Sunshine!

It is a beautiful Valentines Day, albeit windy.  It's also the start of the Great Backyard Bird Count, so I counted for a half hour after breakfast.  Results: a pair of finches, four hooded mergansers, a flock of about fifty unidentified songbirds, two Canada geese, two chickadees, a pair of cardinals, a cormorant, a great blue heron, three ruddy ducks and a robin.

Later the white throated sparrows showed up.  A couple of egrets flew downstream.  Lots more ruddy ducks paddled and dove in the sunshine.  But really, I saw far fewer birds then earlier in the week.  It seems like this happens every GBBC - wind discourages the birds. 

The sunny day ended fairly warm with a full moon.  How romantic!