Ice on the creek

Another overnight freeze made birds hungry.  Orioles just about finished the jelly and the orange crowned warbler helped.  The female pileated woodpecker got up early to have a peaceful turn at the suet. 

I saw a goldfinch in the saltbush.  The waterfowl were absent till afternoon.  Northern shovelers fed on the lake.  As I was leaving for a meeting, I spotted some hoodies on the creek.  On my way home I was followed by a streaky yellow sunset - stratus clouds predicting rain.