Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Wet and gray, turned nice

Drips are hanging but it is not raining.  I think birds prefer this sort of windless, wet day.  A titmouse showed up after staying away all through the bird count.  Sparrows, doves, and the regulars are all hungry.  Squirrels are busy chasing each other.  An egret and a heron flew past.  A couple of geese are on the creek but I don't see ducks.  A crow flew over with a stick in its beak, headed for the pines.

The sky cleared by mid morning and the wind came up.  The temperature came up too.  Buzzards are still circling over the other side of the creek.  Not much else is out and about.

A heron took up station on the bulkhead in the late afternoon and a ruddy duck paddled by.  The sky was glazed with streaky altostratus clouds at sunset.  Unfortunately I was driving at the time.


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