Overnight snow

This was the last day of the GBBC and snow was still falling at breakfast.  A Carolina wren was already on the suet.  A male towhee joined the throng where I'd scattered seeds and mealworms.  Two male cardinals disputed territory while a female watched.  Song and white throated sparrows and juncos foraged.  Both kinds of woodpeckers came for suet.  A goldfinch appeared but was driven off by the warbler.  Nothing stirred on the creek or flew over it.  The snow turned to rain before 8am and that seemed to discourage the birds.

At lunch, all the woodpeckers arrived at the suet, to the dismay of  the wren and warbler.  The wren tried to share with the red bellied female, but I think she made the suet cage move too much.  A junco hopped around.  The rain continued to turn the snow to slush.  It collected on the creek ice.

In the late afternoon, the rain stopped and the temperature rose.  Vapor also rose off the ice and turned to fog.