Waterfowl

The weather was much like yesterday.  In the early morning, the creek glowed with reflected light.  A yellow rumped warbler popped from branch to branch playing hard to photograph.  There might have been another, darker warbler, or just and odd angle of light on the same one.  I found a fruit on the Carolina horsenettle, Solanum carolinense.  The paperwhite narcissus sent up leaves.  The saltbush fluff blew in clumps.  Most of the trees were showing some color.  

In the late afternoon, the kingfisher returned to her favored perch on the dock post.  An egret glided upstream above a pair of mallards.  A great blue heron occupied the downstream neighbors' floating dock.  

NOAA has predicted that the coming winter will be warmer here.