Frozen

The birdbath was ice but the creek was open, probably because the gusty wind kept the surface in motion. Sunrise tinted fat cumulus clouds that son spread over the sky.  The weather prediction was for full sun and instead we got full overcast with a few bits of snow in the morning. A Carolina wren looked where I put out the grape jelly but I hadn't taken it outside yet.  The myrtle warbler went straight to the suet, soon followed by a downy woodpecker. 

I hustled more bark butter balls and grape jelly outside, along with hot water to melt the birdbath and a scattering of seeds for ground feeding birds.  Squirrels got into the seeds, the jelly, and the water.  A song sparrow liked the little millet seeds the squirrels left.  The birdbath began to refreeze, but didn't finish before it began to melt again.   White throated sparrows stuck to what fell into the mulch. 

The cat returned to its sunning spot but that didn't make the sun return.   A squirrel with bent whiskers bullied the squirrel with the bare spot on its hip.  It groomed its whiskers so they were all bent! 

There were a few buffleheads on the creek including a female.   Wind gusts made the water turn white.  I finally caught a pelican in flight.  Around 2pm the sun began to find rents in th clouds.  The sasanqua camellia has almost finished blooming, without the buds getting frozen for the first I can remember.   I missed pictures of a brown thrasher and a kingfisher.