Near the mountain ash are some crabapples that were attracting lots of birds too, including flocks of american goldfinches and several house finches. Robins flitted back and forth between the crabapples and the mountain ash.

Although it was cool today at +7 and cloudy, there was an amazing amount of birdsong and activity. Two hairy woodpeckers and a downy woodpecker working away on a manitoba maple snag, a big flock of starlings filling the air with their twittering, 20+ robins, the same number of goldfinches, smaller numbers of goldfinches, a hermit thrush, crows, geese flying overhead constantly, song sparrows, and juncos all over the place.