Gentle rain

As usual, the rain seems to make birds hungry. Finches were busy on the feeder. Crows were harassing something in the pines across the creek. Whatever it was never appeared but the crows were quite spectacular doing rolls and dives.

I've been using Google images and various websites to identification, but there have been several birds this fall that defeated this strategy. So I went back to Peterson. The ducks were definitely wood ducks. The gulls are still a mystery but I'm leaning toward Bonaparte's gull.

The rain and wind are so soft that big drops accumulate on the twigs. We're getting into the season where the choices are warm, but wet, or bright, but cold. Now the rain is tapering off.

And now the sun is playing pee-a-boo, but everything is wet. I hear a kingfisher. Pelicans and cormorants have come out to cruise the creek. The sun has descended into a bank of clouds in the West.