Waning fat moon shines

Air temperature 14 F, wind NW about 6 mph, windchill 4. Clear sky, Venus bright. As the days grow longer, the cold grows stronger.

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Happy solstice celebration of your choice.

You have to look twice

Out for a walk this afternoon (brr) and saw what I thought was a mockingbird in a known mockingbird territory. It landed in a bare bush about six feet away, and I didn't realize until I was about two houses further along the street that the body feathers weren't quite right and it had a heavy, hooked bill. Northern shrike.

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Orion, cold moon.