After lunch I deemed it warm (31 F) enough to go down to the beach. The snow is mostly gone from anywhere the sun reaches, but there is still lots of evidence of the cold. There's the band of frozen Bay water behind a ridge of sand.
The north jetty was covered with it.
And this partially buried branch.
Water oozing out of the cliff, frozen into a sheet, and spilling onto the beach.
A very slow day for fossils. Seven teeth for having walked 3 miles.
Back where the sun doesn't reach (or more likely, reaches only in the early morning when it's still frigid, the beach and cliffs are still covered in snow.
If you look closely, you can see where this ship passing by is stretched vertically and reflected in the mirage.
The sunlight was just right to show the iridescence on this male Buffleheads head. No eagles in sight.
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