Nice

Blue sky was back.  The creek surface was quite at first but soon roughened.  Titmice came to breakfast.  A downy checked on the still empty suet feeder.  Later a pair of wrens poked around under the rosemary.  I saw one feed the other but they were screened by rosemary twigs. Bees were flying and a cabbage white butterfly found something to interest it down the slope.

A blue jay flew by in the late morning.  The white narcissis began to bloom.  Dogwood flowers opened and red leaves appeared above the oak blossom strings. 

I got back in the middle of the afternoon and almost immediately saw a tiger swallowtail.  A crane fly battered against the window.   An egret fished below the dam where the wind had again pushed the tide extra low.  Two titmice came for seeds.  White throated sparrows and juncos foraged in the mulch.  Later an egret caught fish just off our bank, in the shallow water by the mudflat.