Birds seem to know when I have my hands full. During a phone call at breakfast, a red bellied woodpecker and a brown thrasher visited. Bluebirds and warblers lingered so I did get pictures of them. One female bluebird tried to figure out where the edibles were in the seed feeder. And I was amazed to see a junco this early in the season. The creek surface was rough in the morning. The blueberry leaves had turned red.
We took the dog for a walk at Norfolk Botanical Gardens. There were several little waterfalls where we walked They fed a pond that offered reflections somewhat like Monet's garden. The pond had a fountain, unlike Giverny. The pink and red camellias attracted yellow jackets, but not the white flowers. I found a live venusta orchard spider but surprisingly no birds or other wildlife. The spider was big for its species and looked well fed. It was not easy to get it in focus.
Lots of birds arrived in the afternoon to make up for that. I saw a pelican but got no photo. I did get a white throated sparrow, pine and yellow rumped warblers, the bluebirds, and the brown headed nuthatches.
The sky clouded over and pretended snow was coming but it was far too warm for that - upper 50s. The creek, on the other hand, calmed and became reflective. An article in the newspaper today suggested that we should have had a frost by now. "By definition, we have just crossed the seasonal divide into meteorological winter, on Dec. 1. On Nov. 21 there was the exact same chance of our having recorded a freeze (defined as 32 degrees) in Norfolk. On Nov. 28 that probability had inched up, to 70%. And by Dec. 9 those odds go to 90%."
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