The regulars and the white throats came for breakfast. Crows ran off an eagle that landed in the pines across the creek. It's 30 degrees colder than yesterday and windy as well. Later, a female towhee perched at the feeder. When a sparrow joined her, neither seemed to understand that their weight was tripping the counterweight to close the feeder baffle. Cardinals do get it and won't allow any bird larger than a chickadee to join them.
Lunch was very entertaining. First a pine warbler appeared. Then pelicans paddled around on the creek. The female towhee came back and got into a dispute with a female cardinal. A ruddy duck paddled around the end of the dock. Herons flew downstream. The towhee came back in the late afternoon. The wind is still strong and it is going to freeze tonight.
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