Cold, Gray, Wet, and Windy November

Overnight and up till noon today about an inch of rain fell on moist soils, creating pools on low-lying lawns and filling swales and ditches with runoff. The storm's substantial rain falls from north of Maine, west of Lake Michigan, and south of South Carolina. Lake-effect snows and flurries are predicted here for later today and tomorrow as a cold front sweeps the storm out to sea.
As is their custom, migrating Canada geese wait out such large storms in their flyways in local lakes and ponds and fields of corn stubble, perhaps in hopes of gleaning corn kernels spilled during harvest.
Perhaps the mate of the goose keeping an eye on me has been banded with a numbered plastic sleeve slipped over its head. I can imagine that the snug sleeve hinders its neck as it pecks among the stubble.
The wary turkeys were among one of two flocks of perhaps a dozen birds each grazing grasses and gulping acorns in nearby fields. Their oily feathers shed rain and keep them warm almost as well as goose feathers do.