Hooded mergansers!

 A cold wind out of the North was pushing cream puff cumulus clouds overhead.  K says a chickadee was waiting on the perch when she went to unblock the feeder, but I haven't seen any more birds there.  Sunshine had the creek glowing and revealed the ducks.  Of course they flew when I tried to take a photo. They are framed by the leaves but the camera chose the wrong focus.

It is cold and windy and the creek is now glittering as the wind roughens the surface.  There was clear sky briefly but now the clouds are moving through again, but from more West of North.  The photo was from earlier when dawn tinted the clouds. 

By lunch, sunshine dominated, though clouds still marched South.  A great blue heron flew upstream and let fly a load of guano all over the creek.

Only the white throat braved the cold to visit the feeder.  This photo is from the morning when a beach ball bobbed around in the creek.  The wind broke off a couple of sunflowers. 

In the late afternoon, many egrets flew North overhead, tinted by the sun.  This flock was followed by ones and twos.