Day 17.335: Woodpeckers, mergansers and a little storm clean-up

We saw nearly a full set of woodpeckers this morning at the cemetery. Downy, hairy, red-bellied and these ones:

Yellow-bellied sapsucker. This appears to be a young male with a hint of red under his chin, but nothing like the bright flash on the one we saw a week or two ago.

And our pileated friend greeted us and the first rays of sun with some intense peering out of his hole

...before flying off to start its day.

Only northern flicker was missing from the list of likely woodpecker species.

Out on the river, we saw Canada geese, American black ducks, mallards, great black-backed gulls, ring-billed gulls, a lesser scaup and some distant (but unmistakable) mergansers:

Hooded merganser

Common mergansers

As expected, the snow was almost all gone. As hoped, there was not too much obvious storm damage, although our group did spend some time moving fallen branches from the roads, including this one that had left a perfect image of itself when it fell.