Pecker Woods, Cooper's Hawk, and more out back

 Red-Bellied Woodpecker

 Downy Woodpeckers

 More Red-Bellied woodpeckers

 We have a couple of Carolina Chickadees, along with a White-Breasted Nuthatch!

 And this beautiful Cooper's Hawk, checking out the house sparrow buffet

 I've seen as many as six Cardinals at one time!

 Pair of females

Redbird on snow

Along with the Occasional Squirrel

Fluffy Snow, Cardinal Couple and a Poem from Days Gone By

Snowflake

Alone, awash amidst this sea of spruce

And pine I sit. Into the rising fog

I gaze as if to see some mystic realm.

Enchantment drew me to this holy hill

By promising a glimpse of heaven's bliss,

But haze and heavy clouds obscure my view.

The gloom, my doom it is, I think, to see.

What is it like to dream of future days

And not of nightmares past? The wintry blasts

Come howling through my brain. Yet on the winds

Of pain a solitary snowflake floats.

Someday the snow will fall and bury all

My shame beneath its pristine flow, and I

Will know at last a season of new hope.

Meet the new month...same as the old month

March came in like a snow leopard!

Sweet Jesus... (the Holy Family, toppled and smothered)

 But at least we have cute little snowbirds!

Dark-eyed Juncos

 Song Sparrows

 And Cardinals, oh my!

And House Sparrows

Along with a few sweet Mourning Doves

Yesterday I even saw a White-Throated Sparrow!

 We have the usual bullies

 Starlings

 And the occasional Blue Jay!

 As well as The Occasional Squirrel

And snow...

Frosty Morn...

A favorite little creek of mine, southern Clark County

Misty Moon

Another Clark County creek

No ducks, but pretty!

Massie Creek, Greene County

Close-up

Open pool in frozen farm pond

Southern Champaign County

Dear UU Deer

MMC at UU

One student called it Mordor, lol!

Library Squirrel...very smart

Mad River Mallards

Frozen Massie from another bridge

In short...it's cold up in here! But beautiful...