It's winter

Well it is officially winter...or it was as of yesterday, and it started off with a roar....roar of wind that is!  One of the strongest windstorms in recent years created havoc throughout, with massive power outages, here being no exception.  Our power has just come on after 55 hours.

The weather has been pretty dark and gloomy as well so haven't been out and about all that much.  You can see that water levels have climbed again....

the log bay is once again a bay...

lots of ducks out there...mainly American Wigeon I think.

have been a lot of Common Merganser.  The little group of Bufflehead are back off the boat launch, but so far it has been to dark to get a picture.

Hooded Merganser have been around too.

and Canada Geese.  Still some Bald Eagles too, but numbers have definitely thinned dramatically.