I got sick and tired of being snowbound so I walked over to Lazelle Woods 
this afternoon.  The feeders in the backyards adjoining the park were 
either covered with snow or the owners couldn't get out to refill them 
because of the snow.  Nothing was along there except a noisy flock of 
hungry house sparrows waiting for a handout.
There was a lot of activity in the woods though.  4 downy woodpeckers, 1 
hairy woodpecker, 2 red-bellied woodpeckers, nuerous Carolina chickadees, 
tufted titmice, and dark-eyed juncos.  Along the edge of the woods in the 
back of the park is where the northern cardinals were.  I saw at least 4 
of them.  Heard but not seen were white-breasted nuthatches and northen 
flickers.

Back at home I made several rounds of the apartment complex.  While there 
weren't as many species present as usual, it was not insignificant.  Of 
course there were numerous cardinals.  Also about 20 Canada geese sitting 
on the ice in the largest of the four ponds close to the only hole of open 
water, 4 house finches (all females), a red-tailed hawk, and numerous 
mourning doves.  Absent were the usual mallards, cardinals, and 
goldfinches.
Some of the ring-billed gulls I reported in an earlier post "discovered" 
the Polaris Kroger.  There's nothing unusual about finding gulls there but 
today there was an unusually large flock up there.

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