Very cold here -- 21 degrees at 1 p.m. and feels like 13 with the wind chill. We dodged the really bad ice yesterday... roads cleared by sunset... seem to have dodged the northern snow today... we just can't seem to muster more than a dusting here, sadly!
The birds have been very hungry... and very entertaining. This little Carolina Wren (kudos to my friend Charleen, who properly identified him -- I thought he was a sparrow!) was just one of many birds, along with juncos, chickadees, tufted titmouse, cardinals, goldfinches, purple finches, and a very pretty red-bellied woodpecker who have visited our feeder the last 2 days and entertained both us and Mabel and Lucy. We even had a hawk perch briefly on our cedar rail fence and and in the trees!
