Tropical storm Hermine was offshore which meant that the counter-clockwise winds came from the Northeast. The new moon was just past so the noonday high tide already had extra ooompf. With the wind pushing water up the Lynnhaven, the dock was submerged by mid morning. The wind stripped off dead pine needles and plastered redwood needles to the windows. It hammered the last hibiscus flower.
The seed eaters took advantage of every pause between gusts to visit the rocking feeder. We had taken the hummer feeders down because they are light and more breakable, so I don't know how the hummers were faring. A blue jay landed on the step railing, but the mess on the window defeated the camera. I saw a gull battling the wind above the trees.
About 1:30pm there was a half hour lull and even a little sun. A couple of egrets, one great the other snowy, fished beside the submerged dam outfall. (The small one might have been an
immature little blue heron.) Birds flocked to the feeder and one got in the birdbath, unnecessarily. A very wet squirrel foraged under the morning glory vine. I found a
jumping spider on a different patch of morning glory.
The wind shifted from NE to NW and the rain came back. It tapered off before 4pm, but the wind never stopped. About 5:30pm the dock finally emerged from the water. A juvenile and an adult yellow crowned night heron hunted along the water's margin at the edge of the grass. By supper time a half dozen great egrets were congregating around the dam outfall. The night heron came stalking up through the yard according to K. I missed it.
Tropical storm Hermine was offshore which meant that the counter-clockwise winds came from the Northeast. The new moon was just past so the noonday high tide already had extra ooompf. With the wind pushing water up the Lynnhaven, the dock was submerged by mid morning. The wind stripped off dead pine needles and plastered redwood needles to the windows. It hammered the last hibiscus flower.
The seed eaters took advantage of every pause between gusts to visit the rocking feeder. We had taken the hummer feeders down because they are light and more breakable, so I don't know how the hummers were faring. A blue jay landed on the step railing, but the mess on the window defeated the camera. I saw a gull battling the wind above the trees. 
About 1:30pm there was a half hour lull and even a little sun. A couple of egrets, one great the other snowy, fished beside the submerged dam outfall. (The small one might have been an immature little blue heron.) Birds flocked to the feeder and one got in the birdbath, unnecessarily. A very wet squirrel foraged under the morning glory vine. I found a jumping spider on a different patch of morning glory.
The wind shifted from NE to NW and the rain came back. It tapered off before 4pm, but the wind never stopped. About 5:30pm the dock finally emerged from the water. A juvenile and an adult yellow crowned night heron hunted along the water's margin at the edge of the grass. By supper time a half dozen great egrets were congregating around the dam outfall. The night heron came stalking up through the yard according to K. I missed it. 
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