Quiet

After a pink dawn, the sky was hazy with streaky clouds.  Sunshine was intermittent.  Two great blue herons flew upstream together.  Later geese and buffleheads floated downstream.  The feeders were unused till after breakfast when a yellow rump appeared.

I went outside at noon and the was cloudless blue.  More buffleheads fished on the creek.  A robin prospected in the yard and juncos soon joined it.  I had my shoulder to the feeder but I could see its shadow and hear the wing-beats as birds came and went.  Yellow rumps, woodpeckers, and titmice fed in addition to the usual chickadees, finches, and cardinals.

In the late afternoon the haze and clouds returned.