The temperature never got up to 32 though the sun melted the ice on the pool cover and the current did the same for the creek. I figured the birds needed food, and they agreed. The orioles packed on the calories between suet, bark butter, and jelly. Oddly, the female oriole with the most colorful feathers is not high in their pecking order. The warblers also went for the first two, and added seeds. Downy woodpeckers were single-minded about suet. At least two red breasted nuthatches also wanted seeds.
Doves soaked up sun on the pool cover. Other birds tried to get a drink despite the ice. I saw warblers, orioles, robins, and bluebirds. That caused me to put out some mealworms, but I don't think the bluebirds got any. I also melted the birdbath again. White throats hurried around the patio. Two blue jays visited the bark butter. Later a Carolina wren went back and forth between bark butter and suet. The wing caught the wren's feathers and flared them out.
There were a few ducks out on the ice-free parts of the creek. The lake appeared to be completely frozen. Sunset was very orange but the clouds to the Northeast turned pink.
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