Our nature group gathered in full sunshine at 2 pm instead of around dawn (our "normal" gathering time is 7 am) but that didn't save us from the cold in the middle of this bitter spell of weather.
I didn't take many photos, but this is some of what we saw.
This bald eagle circled over us as we gathered:
Our tree of the week is eastern hemlock:
I'd never observed it before, but this is apparently normal cold weather response from a rhododendron (apparently it will recover when the temperature rebounds):
The river - surprisingly had some liquid water - honestly it's hard to understand why - but most of it looked very solidly frozen:
A non-bird flyover turned out to be the air ambulance:
It was a fun outing, but we were ready to get back into the warm.
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