Rain

This has finished the snow.  It is still very windy.  A finch and a squirrel are all that braved the weather at breakfast. 

Sparrows and a female towhee showed up in the middle of the morning.  At lunch we were inundated in robins.  The male downy woodpecker was back at the dogwood.  Gulls and pelicans flew over the swollen creek. 

The rain is very fine, almost mist, but the wind gusts make it look like sheer fabric blowing.  The wind is driving the tide up too.  Mergansers and buffleheads are out on the creek. 

The rain has gotten heavier and the wind won't let up. And yet, the cardinals continue their turf war.  The tide pulled the floating dock  off the lower pilings.