Fish for Lent

The sky is smudged with white this morning but there is sunlight.  Sparrows and squirrels are busy in the mulch, chickadees and nuthatches on the feeder.  There are at least four squirrels around, one is a nursing mother.  Two got into a spat and became a ball of fur rolling over with two tails sticking out.

The clouds are thickening, leaving blue patches.  Pelicans, gulls, cormorants and ospreys are fishing.  It's convenient that the fish come up the rivers to spawn when people are supposed to be meatless.  (I wonder how many people realize that carnival means "goodbye meat.")  Meanwhile, the crows keep hassling the osprey.  It is hard to hover when you are being dive-bombed.  Do the crows actually mistake the osprey for a danger, or are they just practicing? 

Unlike the previous days, there were more clouds in the morning than the afternoon.