Waking to the sound of rain

Heavy clouds are blowing out to sea. It's supposed to get very warm and windy. Cormorants were battling their way South. One squirrel was very actively hunting something in the mulch near the feeder post - smell or memory?

And at 10am the sun broke through. It continues to alternate with clouds. The rain swelled a new crop of the bird's nest fungi and this time I was able to get photos that show the "eggs."

The hooded mergansers have arrived! Two pair were diving in the creek. Later two groups of three mergansers came back upstream. Also a great black back gull was paddling on the creek in the same area. A pelican did the plunge for something, but trees were in the way of seeing whether it succeeded.

The juncos are scurrying around along with the squirrels. Bees are still busy with the rosemary. And the waves of clouds continue to bring rain alternating with sun.