Boxed in by thick fog…

Holy moly, was the fog thick this morning in Estabrook Park. I could barely see across the river at times. The breeze and road traffic were both light, on the other hand, so I could still hear the birds pretty well. Oddly, the critters I did manage to photograph today kept still and didn’t make a sound. Go figure.

I didn’t see a great horned owl on my way north, but once I got to the far north end, I could hear a few crows pestering somebody. I hustled back south, but didn’t make it before the crows moved on. Happily, when I checked for an owl the second time, look who I found.

Here it is again after I used some software to “dehaze” the picture.

The huge treat of the morning, however, came after I visited the pond and was on my way back to the river. I stopped to check the nook where I had seen the screech owl at the start of the month, and today was the day that it decided to return. Here it is through the fog, …

and here it is again after dehazing. “Welcome back, little cutie!”

Finally, at the far south end, I found another red squirrel, but this one wasn’t messing around with bird seed.