Ran some quick pre-storm errands this morning. Most small ponds and pits have a coating of ice on them, a few deeper ones still have enough stored heat to maintain open water but that won't survive this week probably.
Pied-billed Grebe and Belted Kingfisher persist on the W. Des Moines River at the bridge on the northside of Humboldt. There were a handful of thin ice floats on the river that the grebe was ducking and weaving through.
At the intersection of 180th St and Delaware Ave. (SE of Bradgate) I found a Rough-legged Hawk perched, as they are wont to do, on the tippy top of a tree overlooking the 3 Rivers Trail.
