Late winter birds

Temperatures had already gone to the 60s in middle February when we got some threw inches of snow on Feb 24th. My juncos had a bit of a hard time at the platform feeder. After I chopped up the ice some seeds became available:

Other juncos found seed that I had sprinkled under the feeder on top of the snow.

Over at Branched Oak Lake, many snow geese had passed through going north. However, many traveling flocks of 500 or more landed there at noon for a rest every day this week.

Many flocks of Canada geese were on the move, some with cackling geese in them, clearly smaller.

One flock looked a little odd and through binoculars and with camera I found Greater White Fronted Geese. There is less of the black at the rear and the heads are not black.

Here is one on the ice from last year:

The two taller ones are Canada Geese, most are Cackling Geese and the arrow is the Greter White Fronted.

Through the end of February we see bald eagles at Branched Oak.