Quiet morning

Two titmice were on the feeder when I first looked.  Nuthatches and chickadees and a house finch also visited.  Four or five white throated sparrows scurried between the mulch and the rosemary.  Cream puff clouds in the West have spread over the whole sky.  We put the wilting sunflowers we'd had in the house out in the mulch yesterday and overnight something ate them.

A cardinal, a nuthatch, sparrows and juncos came around for lunch, but we were mostly watching the fishing.  At least three osprey and a pelican worked the creek.  Meanwhile the sky cleared behind them.

The first iris has opened.  Other people are complaining about the cold, but it seems to me that everything is blooming ahead of schedule.  

There was just enough cloud haze to add brilliance to the sunset.  Now Jupiter is hanging in the West.