Gathering clouds

The sun is shining but the sky is smudged.  The usual birds - cardinals, finches, chickadees - are on the feeder.  Squirrels are active.  Geese are noisy on the creek and a few ducks are with them. Something crashed into a window, but I could not find any bird or evidence by the time I got there,  Is nesting territoriality under way?

Mid-morning, the juncos, nuthatch, and Carolina wren arrived.  Three male house finches competed for the feeder.  The winner tolerated chickadees and nuthatches, but not other finches.  Both song and white throated sparrows scurried around the squirrel and juncos.  A pelican and a heron flew upstream.

A smallish hawk with a long striped tail swooped past the feeder while we were eating lunch.  It was eithee a sharp shin or a Coopers, but it moved too fast for certainty.  After a while the birds returned and this time titmice joined them.  There is a spot on the patio where the wind spins, making a dust devil, more of a leaf devil actually. I should take a video instead of a still.  It has gotten rather gray.

After dark, rain began.