Good birds

I walked around the (largely frozen over) pond next to work today. Arlene came over at lunchtime yesterday to walk and we didn’t see any birds to speak of. Today I saw a red-breasted nuthatch and a brown creeper. Those aren’t really rare birds, but they’re things I’m happy if I see a couple of times in a year; so that counts as an exceptionally good lunchtime walk. There were also a pair of hooded mergansers on the Charles, and chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches, and tufted titmice.