Bright early

Birds were up early - cardinals, finches and a hummer.  The cardinals tried to perch on the feeder together and tipped themselves off.  Later arrivals included the towhees, a squirrel, a brown thrasher who ran the towhees off, and a drake mallard who got in the birdbath despite filling it to the edge.

We spent the afternoon at Stockley Gardens where a mockingbird sang overhead.  Back home, finches and a cardinal came to the seed feeder and a hummer visited its feeder.  A heron sailed upstream above a goose family.