Quiet

The day began overcast as predicted but then cleared and the sun was out before noon.  The downy was back at the suet.  Not much else to report from the morning.

The sun came and went for several hours around the middle of the day but eventually the cloud cover won.

Birds began to appear around noon.  On the water, there were pelicans, cormorants, mallards and hooded mergansers. On the patio and feeders, woodpeckers, titmice, doves, white throats, joined the finches and chickadees.  I glimpsed a butterbutt and a male towhee inside the azalea - I heard a towhee yesterday after sunset. 

Toward evening, the mergansers came back, four males and a female.