Warm and gray and wet

A mist was rising off the water. An early heron flew off. Latter a bufflehead swam past. Juncos were out on the patio. A kingfisher flew upstream squawking all the way. Later some human making a racket up that way startled three mergansers who flew downstream.

The grass was blessed with a heap of pellets, presumably from a rabbit. They seem appropriate to my feelings just now as my camera is not working right. The zoom quit functioning on our trip and has worked only sporadically since. I thought it was a low battery, and switching seemed to help, but only briefly. Fewmets!

The sky lightened and there was a little sun after lunch, but it did not last. The creek was an absolute mirror, the reflection as sharp as the original. And the water is very clear - I can see minnows and bottom at low tide. A blue jay and a flicker came by. Another kingfisher flew downstream, this time silently. An egret landed by the dam outfall and snapped up something. The camera decided to cooperate, for once, but all the birds were too far or back-lighted, or something.