Monday, February 22, 2016

Cooler

The rain must have stopped early in the night because everything had dried out when we got up.  The front that brought the rain also dropped the temperature.  The sky was mostly cloudy and there was a breeze.  Out on the creek gulls, hoodies, buffleheads and pelicans fished.

A starling was on the suet when I got up but it didn't stay.  The warbler continued to defend the suet against titmice and house finches.  I think it drove all the chickadees away.  The finches argued while the titmice sneaked in.  A goldfinch also got past the warbler once.  The downy warblers and Carolina wrens ignored it.  Song and white throated sparrows stuck to the mulch.  A blue jay was busy around the beauty berry.

The warbler must have been away at lunch because two titmice got to the seed feeder.  Two wrens explored the crumpled pool tarp.  The sun came out and the clouds became very soft and edge-less.  I heard doves cooing. 


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