Yes, I went birding in the below freezing weather- it wasn't too bad as long as the wind wasn't blowing. The birds were quite active although they didn't necessarily want to stand still and pose. LLELA- Cottonwood Trail

The bobcat was hidden by the light and the rocks- I would have missed it except that I was looking in its direction when it moved slightly. About 15 minutes later it had moved across the trail to the riprap along the river just below the outlet works.

I went back out for the second time to the ponds to see if there was any chance I'd see the gallinule again, although I had low expectations. As I walked up to it, a female blackbird squawked a flew away, and at that moment the gallinule came out from behind the reeds and walked on/among the lillypads for several minutes before being startled back into the reeds.

I was standing on the boardwalk watching some common green darners and turned around to see this wren standing on the boardwalk a few feet ahead of me. It crouched down and appeared to scoot along the boardwalk, then stood up, bent down as if to peck at the boardwalk, scooted down some more, then stood up and flew away to a standing log a few feet away. It stood there for about a minute, then flew to the top of a sign post, stood there for a minute, then flew off into the woods. At first it looked like it was having spasms of some kind, but it flew off just fine.