Early birds

The sky is gray but the early sun is leaking under the clouds.  Everything is wet.  A Carolina wren shared the feeder with a white throated sparrow while other sparrows scurried below.  Chickadees and cardinals arrived.

Tufted titmice joined the others around mid-morning.  A bufflehead paddled on the rough water kicked up by the wind.  The clouds are more individual with edges now, and there are blue patches.

Later in the afternoon, the clouds became a fleet of cream and gray cotton balls moving East. Lots of little bugs are enjoying the unseasonable warmth.

After dark there was a fuzzy sliver of moon, then the sky cleared, stars appeared, and the temperature plunged.