Wintery.

Nice to actually need to wear my fleece up at Lory State Park today! I was hoping it would snow a little while I wandered but it never happened.

Plenty of cool snow and ice sculptures around....

Everywhere I went the sound and sight of melting snow 

plopping down -  several times on my head. I kept seeing bird shadows

that I think were often really snow shadows.

Chickadees, Juncos and Nuthatches galore. Noisy flocks of 

Red-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers and these

sweeter-than-sweet Pygmy Nuthatches. I watched 

two wrestling White-breasted Nuthatches drop from a tree,

float down to the ground still entangled, and then

peacefully separate.

Also of course the resident Cackling Stellar's Jays, Magpies and 

Clark's Nutcracker.