Brilliant day

Nuthatches and titmice joined the usual suspects (cardinals, chickadees, house finches) in emptying the feeder.  Sparrows and a female junco kicked mulch.  On the glassy creek, a cormorant looked like a tiny Nessie as it dived.  I refilled the feeder.  A light breeze is stirring the twigs but it is warm. Bees were on the rosemary by 9am.

A pelican, an osprey, and gulls hunted over the creek.  The crows were everywhere.  The feeder is still unoccupied but I saw a wren in the camellia.  A cabbage butterfly and a dark butterfly with a gold edge flitted around.

The breeze has picked up a bit, making it more comfortable to sit in the sun than the shade.  Ospreys keep circling and hovering only to be driven off by crows.   All sorts of bugs are flying around.  The feeder is still ignored but I can hear birds singing.  And a kingfisher's rattle.  I aimed at the osprey, but I caught a gull as well!  And the laughing gulls have their black heads back.

The blue sky is getting smudged with cloud as it becomes evening. The smudges have become peach-colored streaks behind the pines.