Return of winter

 Here we are, almost the last day of the month.....and winter has come back with a vengeance.

this is the way the estuary looked yesterday after more than a foot of snow fell in the previous 24 hours.  

Nevertheless there was a fair bit of activity including....

a few Trumpeter Swans and Mallards

a Great Blue Heron on the prowl....

and even a Northern Shrike!

Prior to the snow's arrival, things have been pretty much the same....

with large numbers of mainly Cackling Geese in the fields...

and Canada's as well.

there has been activity at all of the Bald Eagle nests....no one settling down for nesting yet.

Today....

the American Robins that have been around in large numbers pretty much all winter, were eating the berries of the holly trees...

out in the fields there were large numbers of Trumpeter Swans and Northern Pintails, along with some geese....Cackler's I think.

also saw a small flock of these little guys - Golden Crowned Kinglets.

One more day and it will be March....I expect once this current weather pattern breaks, signs of spring will happen quickly.