Blue birds

The yellow rumped warbler was up before me.  There is still more than one and they still chase each other around.  And while they defer to the downy woodpeckers, a butterbutt chased a white throat off the suet.  At least four white throats foraged in the mulch and on both feeders.  A female junco showed up.  I got a brief glimpse of a Carolina wren over by the outside faucet.  Blue jays chased through the trees and a couple of female cardinals got into a tussle while a male watched.

Clouds slid East, sometimes obscuring the sun.  An egret fished at the dam outflow and a heron flew downstream.  I think that's the first egret I've seen since the big freeze. 

After lunch, a male bluebird checked out the patio including the suet feeder.  Alas, there were no mealworms out for him to sample.  Chickadees, warblers, and woodpeckers also stopped by. 

An osprey and a pelican showed up to fish in the late afternoon.  A song sparrow joined the white throats and cardinals at the Sunflower Cafe.  The butterbutt never stopped eating, even when the other birds scurried to cover.  A cardinal came zooming out of the cherry for all the world like Angry Birds.