Birds –the only bright spot from November to April

Some tundra swans appeared for a while in the open water below the 10^th-street dam

One day this trio were to be seen;

The one on the right is an immature: The bird on the far left was there to provide us a scale:  It’s a Canada goose.

Standing barefoot on ice is cold!

The local Cooper’s hawk came around in early winter, right in the front-yard aspen, but scorned to pose properly for me:

The suet feeder has been a big draw for Downy Woodpeckers

Less so for Chickadees and nuthatches:

Pine Siskins replaced Goldfinches at the thistle feeder for the winter,

and sometimes Common Redpolls

enjoyed thistle seed, but always on the ground:

Chickadees visit the aspen every midmorning to hunt bugs,

OK, so I guess winter’s not that bad.

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