When I first got up, a red bellied woodpecker flew to the suet but quickly went back to the trees. Cardinals and chickadees appeared, then a song sparrow. The downy woodpeckers went to work. A few white throated sparrows joined this song sparrow. Even the house finches showed up. A mockingbird landed on the roof and then disappeared. Finally the Carolina wrens made their entrance. One perched on a little post and sang to the four directions.
The sun was soon bright and the creek full of wavering reflections. Egrets gathered alongside mallards. A sizable flock of geese paddled upstream. A great blue heron was mostly obscured by a screen of brush. Then a couple of pelicans dived for fish.
As I worked on lunch, a female bufflehead paddled on the creek. Later I saw her with a male. Throughout the afternoon, the sparrows, wrens, and woodpeckers returned, but they startled easily. At one point a brindle cat looked in from the back of the house but the birds seemed more concerned about raptors. Late in the afternoon, a half dozen egrets gathered to soak up sun in the trees above the lake. A thin coating of cloud moved in from the West though down by the creek a flag caught a breeze blowing upstream.
When I first got up, a red bellied woodpecker flew to the suet but quickly went back to the trees. Cardinals and chickadees appeared, then a song sparrow. The downy woodpeckers went to work. A few white throated sparrows joined this song sparrow. Even the house finches showed up. A mockingbird landed on the roof and then disappeared. Finally the Carolina wrens made their entrance. One perched on a little post and sang to the four directions. 
The sun was soon bright and the creek full of wavering reflections. Egrets gathered alongside mallards. A sizable flock of geese paddled upstream. A great blue heron was mostly obscured by a screen of brush. Then a couple of pelicans dived for fish. 
As I worked on lunch, a female bufflehead paddled on the creek. Later I saw her with a male. Throughout the afternoon, the sparrows, wrens, and woodpeckers returned, but they startled easily. At one point a brindle cat looked in from the back of the house but the birds seemed more concerned about raptors. Late in the afternoon, a half dozen egrets gathered to soak up sun in the trees above the lake. A thin coating of cloud moved in from the West though down by the creek a flag caught a breeze blowing upstream.
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