Keep off the ice....

It's a wee bit chilly out there. I called in at the patch on my way to lunch. The pond is largely frozen apart from the receiving pond ( as I've apparently decided to call it) under the Green Heron trees, and the areas around the fountains (poor water quality have some advantages sometimes). Most birds were around one if the fountains with 72 ring-bills and a Herring gull. Also 15 of the 18 Hooded Mergansers were there.....time for lunch