Cloudy and colder

The birds are hungry.  Over the creek, I saw egrets, great blue herons, pelicans, gulls, and cormorants.  The feeder attracted white throated sparrows, a Carolina wren, a male towhee, cardinals, and chickadees.

The sky has cleared except for a few clouds still riding the wind from the West.  The female cardinal has learned that any bird bigger than a chickadee will tip the perch so she drives the others off. 

Something small landed in the oak and sat like a raptor - sharp shinned hawk?  All the other birds were gone at the time.