Lots of snow falling when I first arrived here but, by the end the skies were clearing.





Some views after the snow stopped falling:






This morning’s group:

Several people come regularly here to feed the birds:


I brought some seed myself and took a few “selfies”:



Other birds attracted by the feed:




Phragmites, which is said to originate in the Middle East, must be feeling chilly today:

This juvenile Great Black-backed Gull is carrying a fish:


This has been a good winter for White-winged Scoter sightings:






Other ducks:




Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, bufflehead, greater scaup, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, common goldeneye, red-breasted merganser, great black-backed gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, black-capped chickadee, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, song sparrow. (19 species)
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NATURE POETRY
Oh, what a goodly and a glorious show;
The stately trees have decked themselves with white,
And stand transfigured in a robe of light;
Wearing for each lost leaf a flake of snow. – Richard Wilton (1827–1902)
Miles Hearn