Cloudy with filtered sunshine

Chickadees came to the feeder but didn't hang around.  I finally saw a female cardinal and a male house finch but they didn't stay.  Unidentifiable birds flitted through the trees.  I glimpsed a hermit thrush poking through the mulch by the kitchen wall.  First I saw its brown back and wondered what it was. A few minutes later, it came back and I saw its spotted chest, but it saw me, so no photo.

At lunch, white throated sparrows made hurried visits to the mulch below the feeder.  Chickadees and titmice competed with finches on the feeder itself.  Cormorants flew every which way. The clouds broke apart but sunshine was still intermittent. 

Upstream behind the pines was a rosy sunset.