It’s hard to hide a schnoz like that…

I wrote this yesterday morning, but I somehow failed to publish it, and I only just found it now. Ugh!

The first line of thunderstorms has now rolled through, so the fog has thinned out a bit, but boy, it sure was thick earlier this morning.

As luck would have it, our latest visitor chose today to stop in and pay us a visit, but even the thick fog couldn’t hide that fancy pattern on his bill, which marks him as our first ring-necked duck of the year. I see them from time to time in Connecticut, but I’ve only ever seen them twice before in Estabrook, and both times they were hens, so this is our first drake in the park. Woo hoo!

Soon after that, the rain started in earnest, so I hurried home in hopes of getting not much wetter than I already was.

I see that tomorrow is forecast to deliver more of the same, but this gloomy weather can’t last forever, can it?