Lively breakfast

The birdbath is frozen, so it may not be any warmer, but the creek is ice-free and gulls are circling.  Three blue jays checked out the yard.  A half dozen doves pecked at everything including each other.  Also foraging on the ground were sparrows and the towhee, and of course squirrels.  On the feeder: the nuthatch, two titmice, two Carolina wrens, chickadees, finches, and cardinals.  The day is clear and bright, the creek is glassy and the air seems still. 

Coming home for lunch, I saw that the clear blue sky was now smudged with cirrus clouds.  The creek was still mirroring the sunlit trees but incoming current rippled the image.  The nuthatch came by, along with sparrows and squirrels.