Snow

The sky was white but there was intermittent sunshine at breakfast.  A Carolina wren was eating everything in sight.  White throats foraged cautiously under the bushes. Then a white breasted nuthatch landed on the suet and dug in as if it had heard the weather prediction.

After it left, a downy woodpecker took over, then a red bellied.  Warblers, both pine and yellow rumped, fussed at each other.  And the a female bluebird landed on the post, but the other birds had eaten all the bark butter balls.  I put more out, but the bluebird never returned.  Instead I made blue jays happy.  Titmice finally showed up. 

A great blue heron perched up in the pines.  Later four egrets did the same.   By then the sun had gone. The creek showed little sign of melting even though it was a little warmer than yesterday.  There was a brief flurry of snow in the mid afternoon that turned the creek ice white though it did not stick anywhere else.

The real snow began well after dark but the main event with high winds as well as snow came in the middle of the night.