A cold front dried out the air but the abundant sunshine did not warm it up. The birdbath was frozen so I poured hot water in after breakfast. At breakfast, we saw a Carolina wren, a couple of doves, a male oriole, and a white throated sparrow. Mallards and geese skimmed their breakfast from the water. As I drove past Pleasure House Point, a red tailed hawk flew in front of my car.
I got home a little before noon. Several white throats were foraging. The downy woodpeckers took turns on the suet. Red breasted nuthatches snatched suet and seeds whenever they could. The half-blind male house finch took a bath.
A school of fish must have swum up the creek after lunch. I saw a great blue heron chase an egret off a prime spot while pelicans cruised past. Gulls and cormorants got in on the action but I did not see any fishing ducks. A green drink bottle and a white bleach bottle floated downstream to eventually become part of the
Anthropocene sedimentary deposits, I suppose.
In the afternoon a couple of titmice came to the feeder. Juncos appeared and found the bark butter balls.. Pine warblers came for suet. An oriole picked at the centers of the camellia flowers. Then I realized that there were two male orioles, one on the mealworm dish and the other on the back of the bench. They did not cooperate on getting into the same photo. There were also two Carolina wrens with the same issue.
Sunset again colored clouds scattered around the horizon. The commuting cormorants headed to every point on the compass. Visibility was certainly improved with the disappearance of so much foliage, even if the result looked rather barren.
A cold front dried out the air but the abundant sunshine did not warm it up. The birdbath was frozen so I poured hot water in after breakfast. At breakfast, we saw a Carolina wren, a couple of doves, a male oriole, and a white throated sparrow. Mallards and geese skimmed their breakfast from the water. As I drove past Pleasure House Point, a red tailed hawk flew in front of my car.
I got home a little before noon. Several white throats were foraging. The downy woodpeckers took turns on the suet. Red breasted nuthatches snatched suet and seeds whenever they could. The half-blind male house finch took a bath.
A school of fish must have swum up the creek after lunch. I saw a great blue heron chase an egret off a prime spot while pelicans cruised past. Gulls and cormorants got in on the action but I did not see any fishing ducks. A green drink bottle and a white bleach bottle floated downstream to eventually become part of the Anthropocene sedimentary deposits, I suppose. 
In the afternoon a couple of titmice came to the feeder. Juncos appeared and found the bark butter balls.. Pine warblers came for suet. An oriole picked at the centers of the camellia flowers. Then I realized that there were two male orioles, one on the mealworm dish and the other on the back of the bench. They did not cooperate on getting into the same photo. There were also two Carolina wrens with the same issue.
Sunset again colored clouds scattered around the horizon. The commuting cormorants headed to every point on the compass. Visibility was certainly improved with the disappearance of so much foliage, even if the result looked rather barren. 
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