The sun was warming the air after a cold night. The wind was only a breeze, at last, and the creek glassy except when a fish jumped. It's the season for shad to spawn.
A bufflehead pair paddled downstream from the dam. White throated sparrows and juncos were all over the patio and mulch. Downy woodpeckers, chickadees, and starlings headed for the suet. A blue jay flitted among the trees. The brown thrasher lurked in the red cedar. Then the tux cat prowled underneath. Sometimes I swear the birds know. While I was on the phone with my hands full, an egret and a great blue heron stalked past me going up the creek. They were walking in tandem, the heron a little ahead and in deeper water. Then a male wood duck paddled past. And I could not take a picture! And then, and then, as I walked past the feeders to do laundry, there was a goldfinch in bright sunshine.
Toward evening the sky hazed and went white, and the sun faded away instead of setting. The wind got gusty.
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