Five mourning doves and a sparrow on the bird feeder

Like a variation on the partridge in a pear tree, the doves bustled around the sunflowers. They gave a bum's rush to a lone junco that had been foraging.  Two are napping now, all puffed out against the cold wind.  The wind is keeping birds off the feeder - only a cardinal has visited.

Bright sun is warming things up.  A towhee was riding the top of the feeder but saw me before I got to the camera.  A flock of white throats is busy in the mulch and finches and cardinals are visiting the feeder.  One sparrow got tired of waiting for food to fall.

The sun didn't last.   Apparently we are only having "intervals of sun."  A kingfisher just flew upstream and a lone goose paddled the opposite direction.  At dusk, a Carolina wren came to the feeder.  The cormorants did their evening commute.