snow on the ground
it snowed over night and we worried that the sidewalks would freeze. inside, it was 64ºf when we went up to bed. when we woke up, the snow had slowed but still it dusted the yard, sidewalk, and deck. it stayed cold enough that the snow didn’t melt and refreeze, and the flakes were light enough that it hadn’t impacted the roads.
dark-eyed junco
the snow kept falling, getting wetter and heavier as the temperature crept above freezing. i took my dog for a walk and we found a handful of places the birds were gathering to forage. when we got back, i took my camera and went back out to the creek in the woods where we’d seen the most birds.
cardinal
juncos, white-throated sparrows, cardinals, goldfinches, and blue jays were everywhere; there were woodpeckers flitting from snag to snag, hammering the rotting wood; came across a few hermit thrushes, carolina wrens, and eastern bluebirds, a carolina chickadee, and a white-breasted nuthatch that wouldn’t sit still long enough to get a good picture.
eastern bluebird