Mockingbird in a cherry tree

Sometimes when it's cold outside and you're drawing a bird, you just have to embrace the charm of scribbling.

For auld lang syne

Out in the bay right now it's hard to tell where ice ends and water begins. Most of the gulls in the background are standing. The bufflehead in the foreground is swimming.

Moments later, a hipster wearing a kilt wishes me "Happy Robert Burns Day."

True story.

Hello again

Seems I didn't make it too far between 2013 and 2014...back on the sea wall facing South Portland, with a red-breasted merganser, a common eider, and a horned grebe. Unlike last time, today it was downright warm - somewhere in the 40s.

Not pictured: long-tailed ducks, surf scoters, the usual gulls, more eiders and mergansers, and a common loon. The loon was paddled madly along the coast with its head tucked under its wing, apparently not concerned with being able to see where it was going.