Gloomy

Nothing showed up at breakfast and then I had to leave for a meeting.  Apparently there was a heavy rain midday.  When first I got home, bits of blue showed through the overcast, but they soon disappeared and the light level dropped.  The creek was flat and the trees were not stirring but the clouds moved East.  Geese and mallards disturbed the reflections and crows and cormorants flew over. 

Squirrels were burying and digging up nuts.  Some had patches bare of fur from the warbles.  Yellow jackets and bees were busy.  Then I spied a mockingbird in the beauty berry.  The male downy showed up in the dogwood, then hopped over to the suet.  Four white throats poked through the mulch till something swooshed past and they scattered.  As it got dark cardinals appeared.