Frigid weather continues

The feeder is refilled. I finally braved the freezing cold and wind and also the snow. I had to clear a way across the lawn and to the garage to access my bird seed. There are still intermittent visits by flocks of house sparrows. I counted around sixty in one flock. Even while they were feeding a couple of red-breasted nuthatches were able to muscle their way to the feeder and pick up some seeds before flitting back to the spruce trees.

The lone junco is still about. Sometimes he or she is the only bird feeding. Its wing is definitely a bit abnormal although it seems to be able to fly OK around the yard. Perhaps it will stay for the whole winter unless the weather is so severe that it freezes. It is after ten o'clock AM and the temperature is still minus 29. Fortunately, the wind is almost calm for now. Of course when the temperature warms up a bit the wind goes up too making the wind chills much higher.