When I took out the trash yesterday afternoon, the wind was still blowing hard. The towhees and sparrows where hanging onto branches of trees and canes of various rose bushes trying to keep from being blown away. I tried to use the wind to my advantage to sneak up on the birds to get a closer shot, but Rosencrantz and Puck where following me around meowing and announcing my presence to all the birds.  Cranes and geese flew overhead almost suspended in mid-air as they fought gusts of winds on their way to orchard north of us.  While everything in the last photo appears to be calm, the look on the towhee’s face shows how determined he was to hold onto his place on an overgrown Dr. Huey as the wind whipped its canes to and fro.