Fair weather for voters

Honking geese flew in and splashed down on the creek.  A honeybee sunned on the feeder post.  Gulls circled very high over the creek.  Egrets hung around the dock.  Mallards and friends paddled and dabbled in the creek. I think one was a Northern pintail duck.  I think I heard a kingfisher, but far off. 

At lunchtime a dove arrived.  Then four blue jays appeared and one tried the beauty berries.  A red bellied woodpecker investigated the dogwood.  A hawk hung around the creek.  A flock of cormorants drove fish upstream, then down. A great blue heron stalked around the dock across the creek - the tide was very low.  The heron caught at least one fish. 

The yo-yo temperature has the Carolina jessamine blooming.  I hope it saves some buds for spring!  Some small honey-brown mushrooms popped up since yesterday.  And a mahogany bracket is growing where the front yard oak was.  Some kind of big raptor sailed overhead, maybe a juvenile eagle?  Those ubiquitous little beige moths flitted everywhere.  The sky got fairly white as the afternoon wore on and the wind got colder.