Gray birds in a gray mist

Titmice and chickadees on the feeder.  I caught the flash of a junco's tail.  Their are birds up in the sweet gum, and of course I can hear crows.  The mist is thick and everything drips.  The white spot squirrel is busy in the mulch.

By 11AM, the mist has dissipated but the sky is still gray, the light diffuse and too directionless to cast a shadow.  A cardinal and a nuthatch visited the feeder.  White throated sparrows tried the mulch.  The tide is high and rain-washed litter is moving downstream quickly.  The surface is glassy except when rippled by the buffleheads.  An egret and a heron flew over the dam. 

At lunch, a Carolina wren joined the nuthatch.  Sparrows were busy on the ground. The day stayed dim and gray till dark.