Mom was born on this day in 1930. She died at the end of January in 2010. Today marks her 88th birthday. It doesn't feel like 8 years since she passed. Mom liked cardinals. This afternoon I saw two - a male and a female - though not together. I watched each of them for a while - the male bright red, in the sunshine; the female in the shadows of brush along the creek.
There were a couple of pairs of mallards in the creek, another bird that Mom was very familiar with. One of the females had different coloration than the standard, a little lighter brown with an almost white section on the back. It looked somewhat like this example of leucism - variation or loss of the normal pigmentation that is not albinism.
The temperature this afternoon was said to be 46 degrees F, but it felt much colder to me, even though there wasn't a wind.
I didn't see a lot of other wildlife today. In addition to the cardinals and mallards I saw a crow fly high overhead, got a brief glimpse of a hawk, and saw several squirrels.
Sunrise 7:26 am, sunset 5:03 pm.
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