Uneventful start to the year

 So far, it has been a pretty uneventful start to the year. 

December's snow has pretty much disappeared....  

the big influx of Bald Eagles is over....

of course we always have a few eagles around.....

and there are still Trumpeter Swans, some times more, sometimes less.  Yesterday one of the fields in the Kilby area had a large flock, today, none.

We are beginning to wonder where all the regular birds are though....

we've seen some Steller's Jay

and you can usually find a Great Blue Heron somewhere...

but the little guys, like Song Sparrows, Fox Sparrows, Junco's, Towhee's, even Chickadee's are few and far between.

there do seem to be quite a few woodpeckers, like this Downy and we've seen some Hairy as well.

One of the problems is that there is absolutely no fruit left on any of the native Pacific Crabapples or Black Hawthorn.  It seems those Robins that hung around in large numbers for so long, have simply stripped everything bare.  

As usual, we will just have to wait and see how things play out going forward.