The breakfast bar was busy this morning.

Stella, our injured Stellers Jay was back as well as a curious Pine Grosbeak. They added a nice dash of color on a foggy day.

Visitors and a lunar eclipse.

It’s not every morning you get to watch a Bald Eagle land in the tree next to your bedroom and hang out for a couple of hours. Later, a Raven found the breakfast bar out on the front deck. Plus a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, so all-in-all, a pretty good morning.

An unexpected--and cold-- delight.

Kind of a surprise Auroral display late last night/early this morning. The auroral forecasts really didn’t look like much was going to happen, so it’s a good thing I checked outside around 9:30pm and saw a faint green band on the horizon. Got all geared up for the -10f temperatures and it turned out to be the best auroral of the season so far, even with the almost full-moon washing out the sky a bit. She really got active around 11:30pm for about one-half hour, with one strong burst that only lasted about 10 minutes. Gave up about 1am because I was getting worried about the tip of my nose ;) A fun, if chilly, night.