A great blue heron that landed on a dock post was silhouetted against the sunlit opposite bank of the creek. A mockingbird drank from the birdbath. White throats skittered around. Titmice ate barkbutter crumbs till I refilled the dish and they had to compete with blue jays. A pine warbler joined them. While refilling the dish, I also took photos of the third quarter moon. That was enough of the cold wind for me.
The nuthatches came for lunch, bot white breasted and brown headed. All the others from the morning were back for seconds and bluebirds finally arrived. I read about a new-to-me weather term: the
Fujiwhara effect. The article also says, "While they sometimes look similar on satellite imagery, midlatitude
cyclones are fueled by differences in temperature, whereas hurricanes
siphon their energy from warm ocean water — two distinctly different
processes."
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