The two Carolina wrens, white throats, and downy woodpeckers made frequent visits during the morning. Doves didn't stay long. There was another fish frenzy with cormorants, gulls and at least two dozen egrets pursuing the school upstream. Later a half dozen egrets arranged themselves in the sun below the dam. A lone great blue heron flapped downstream. A squirrel tried to gobble up the mealworms and I had to scare it off repeatedly. One rose survived the rain and the fluctuating temperatures.
In the afternoon I saw a bufflehead paddling serenely upstream and glimpsed what might have been a ruddy duck. Chickadees and wrens were it for the bird food. The day was quite beautiful despite the cold wind. The half moon was overhead after sunset, on its way to being full this year for Santa.
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