Rainbow

I woke to rain slapping the house like a giant broom.  It didn't last long and the clouds are still moving fast on a wind out of the Southwest.  While the clouds kept it dark, the male towhee came for breakfast along with white throats.  The birds I saw yesterday were in the redwood this morning.  They flew out into open air then back to a perch just like dragonflies.  I've got to find out what they are.

Now it has grown lighter and chickadees are coming, but the towhee and the unidentified birds are gone. Bits of blue are showing between clouds and there is a suggestion of shadows, if not actual sunlight. Later in the morning there was real sunshine.  I saw an egret and a flock of mergansers in the lake beyond the dam. A couple of doves stopped for a drink.

Around noon, another period of heavy rain hit.  The clouds to the South looked like a rolling boil and there was a sharp front edge in the East.  After the rain passed, a rainbow appeared in the Northeast.  A cardinal and a finch, both female, came to the feeder along with chickadees.  White throats scarfed up the peanut hearts.  A pelican just passed.