Sunshine on the usual suspects

That is, year around, cardinals, house finches, and chickadees, along with white throated sparrows in the winter.  It is chillier today despite the blue sky. 

The clouds came and went all day and by late afternoon the sky was overcast.  The only other birds I saw were osprey, cormorants, and crows. 

K sent me an interesting article on genders among animals that called the two morphs of the white throated sparrow different genders, that is, white stripe males, tan stripe males, white stripe females, and tan stripe females.  I had already read that each morph prefers to mate with the other, but this claimed there were behavioral differences as well as color.  I haven't seen it, but they don't breed here. 

At bedtime, a fuzzy first quarter moon was visible behind the overcast as it descended in the West.