Frosty

The temperature dropped to 32°F last night according to the newspaper, but there was no frost visible and it may not have been so cold here.  Yesterday was sunny and cold and today was hazy and cold. 

I got a very fuzzy photo of a white duck I'm guessing was a bufflehead.  It was headed upstream faster than I could fight with the camera focus.  Three egrets sailed overhead just as the camera turned off. A great blue heron stood on a log by the lake above the dam.  The persistent fishing by downstream neighbors has kept the wading birds away from the cam outfall.

I had better luck with songbirds.  Titmice, chickadees, and house finches were joined by a white throated sparrow that seemed a bit of a bully.  But then a Carolina wren chased off the sparrow despite being half its size.

The haze became overcast in the late afternoon.  At sunset, enough light leaked through from the West to tint the clouds rose.