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Friday, December 24, 2021

Christmas Eve 2021

 Christmas Eve....2021 style.  Seems to me last Christmas Eve I took a picture of a dandelion in flower -well not this year!


it was a little brisk out there, the occasional snowflake drifted down and the start of the arctic outflow winds were coming down the river, but still it wasn't anywhere near as cold as they say it will get.

There weren't many 'creatures stirring'....


a Bald Eagle....there were a few carrying on, not sure about what.


there were some swans and ducks hunkered down right against the shore, trying to get out of the worst of the wind.


turned out the ducks were a mixture of Ring Neck (the 3 to left) and Greater Scaup, the one to the right.  There were probably 50 or more in the flock.


as we were leaving, noticed a number of Swans out in one of the fields...


appeared to all be Trumpeter Swans along with some Canada Geese.

Mid-afternoon went for a walk at the estuary....


where it also felt very wintry and there wasn't much of anything visible.....so they have promised us a White Christmas with snow all day and into Boxing Day....we shall see.


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