It was cold again in Estabrook Park this morning. The sun shone for a little while, a couple of separate times, but it mostly hid behind a thick layer of clouds. I didn’t see any new birds on the water, and the raptors continue to stay in hiding, but the trees and bushes around the pond continue to attract pretty little birds.
The bluebirds were back again, and this time I counted six of them. Here’s one posing nice and still, …
and here are a couple busily picking berries out of the lawn.
House finches stick to the backyards when it’s warm, but the colder it gets, the more they flock up at the pond, and today there were several dozen. Here’s a male foraging for seeds in the little bit of snow that has accumulated on the ice.
Finally, the surprise visitor today is this cedar waxwing, whom we haven’t seen since the start of November. There were a couple dozen of them flitting from tree to tree around the pond and picking berries.
It looks like we’re due for a bit of a warm up this weekend, and I hope it’ll be interesting to see how that goes.
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 
Great pictures today!!
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