The March lion was a day late. The noise of the wind was constant all day even though it was gusty. It was like being right beside a jet runway. But there was more sunshine than had been predicted. At breakfast I saw starlings, yellow rumped warblers, white throated sparrows, a Carolina wren, doves, chickadees, cardinals, downy woodpeckers
The creek was very choppy and even the lake water was splashing. Gulls and buzzards played with the winds. A couple of egrets soaked up sun above the bulkhead across the creek. Below them in the water was a small flock of red breasted mergansers.
Before lunch, I tossed out a peanut that had fallen on the floor and the squirrel who found it was not content with one. A larger flock of mergansers gathered at the dam outfall. It included both hooded and red breasted. Rafts of leaves floated on the creek. A pelican landed on the water. I had expected to see more of them here to escape the worst winds out on the bay.
Sunset was fiery with storm clouds flying across the sky. Homeward commute for the waterfowl was a struggle. The coot reappeared just as the light fell too low for the camera. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel recorded 75mph sustained winds with gusts peaking at 84mph. That is equivalent to a Cat. 1 hurricane. Yesterday was also a full moon, but the tide was not unusually high.
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