Wispy clouds become overcast

The creek is again glassy except when mallards go by. The moon was still quite high in the sky this morning and distinctly lopsided. Last night it was very bright. In the past, merganser ducks would show up around now, migrating South, but for the last several years I have not seen them before Thanksgiving. Mary Reid Barrow reports a merganser sighting in Thalia this week.

By lunch time cloud cover had blown in from the West and it was warm, windy, and dull. A pelican hurried downstream and an egret battled upstream. A buzzard circled. A finch and some chickadees visited the feeder. The trees shed color.