I watched a male Cardinal spend several minutes harvesting water from the tip of an icicle in my Rhodo bush this morning.  In this instance he was able to perch on an adjacent branch and reach over to the tip of the icicle.  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology confirms this behavior as being common and has some interesting things to say about providing water to birds in winter:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1144

A single Caro Wren has been active at the feeders the last two days after being absent on SAT.  Otherwise just the usu crowd.

Jim (Michael) Speicher
near Burkittsville in S FRED CO