The sun shone briefly when I first got up, then overcast moved in. A Carolina wren tried every food source, tossing intact seeds to the ground as it looked for broken bits. A blue jay found the mealworms. A junco took over the seed feeder.
Robins landed in the trees, mostly. Then blackbirds arrived. They foraged under the pines across the creek for a while before heading over. Starlings mobbed the feeders. Fortunately, they didn't stay long.
Herons were busy in the creek, and I believe I saw buffleheads and possibly a ring necked duck. In the early morning the water had a thin, flexible skin of ice but it didn't last long.
I went off to a program at 2pm with not a flake and came out at 4pm to a snow-covered car, in which I crept home. Judging by flat surfaces, about an inch had fallen and it was still snowing. The only bird still venturing out of cover was a dove. And the creek was renewing its ice as the light faded.
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