It was a gray-on-gray morning in Estabrook Park, with gray fog sandwiched between thick gray clouds and melting gray ice. Sure, gray is technically a color, along with black and white, but I went searching for colors with more saturation.
This nonbreeding herring gull, with pale eyes and legs but a yellow bill and perched on a gray street lamp, was a tiny step in that direction.
I had a hope that this downy woodpecker, appearing to excavate a nesting cavity already, would have the red nape of a male…
but that was not to be.
This white throated sparrow broadened the spectrum a little more, with a rich, brown back, in addition to its yellow lores.
Finally, a male northern cardinal came to my rescue with a whole pallet of red hues. Phew!
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 