Frozen, Flooded Massie Creek

I'm just going to leave these here...

Within a week or so, this will all be a memory...

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...

Fowl weather

Apparently our waterfowl are getting quite randy...

 I caught these Hooded Mergansers hooking up on a very cold creek

 Mallard couple...practicing synchronized landings

 Mallards and several Hoodie couples...swimming away from the intrusive photographer

 More Mallards, and surprise Hoodies on Massie Creek!

 Mallards in the sun on the Mad River

 Oh! Male Canvas-back Duck wintering on the Mad

 Ignoring the many Mallards

 Oh, Canada...I found your geese...

 They love the Mad, whose swift waters never fully freeze over

 Even the common Horned Larks seem to be in the mood...

 Not so much the wild turkeys...

 They're too busy picking over last year's cornfields