Rain started during breakfast and fell gently all morning. I had forgotten to unbrick the feeder and had to get wet. Fishing birds, including a pelican, followed a school upstream around 8:30am. Songbirds arrived about a half hour after that. The oriole evicted the wren again. The red bellied woodpecker got her suet. The song sparrow went wading again.
At lunch time a flock of white throats joined the song sparrow. I put out some fresh food when the rain stopped. A female hoodie glided past on the creek. Downy woodpeckers came for a suet lunch. The clouds broke apart and let the sun through. The wrens and orioles continued to fuss over the mealworms. A great blue heron was at its usual post on the dock next to the dam for at least two hours. Cormorants dried out on the dead snags by the lake. A female bufflehead paddled around the creek.
As I drove to Norfolk on an errand, the sun was shining but there was a bank of clouds on the horizon to the North and West. They grew visibly higher in ten minutes and passed overhead while I was inside. When I came out, everything was drenched and dark swirling clouds came to a sharp end on the Southern and Eastern horizon. I could see rain falling to the South. I followed the storm home while the sun escaped the Western edge and set the sky on fire.
Rain started during breakfast and fell gently all morning. I had forgotten to unbrick the feeder and had to get wet. Fishing birds, including a pelican, followed a school upstream around 8:30am. Songbirds arrived about a half hour after that. The oriole evicted the wren again. The red bellied woodpecker got her suet. The song sparrow went wading again.
At lunch time a flock of white throats joined the song sparrow. I put out some fresh food when the rain stopped. A female hoodie glided past on the creek. Downy woodpeckers came for a suet lunch. The clouds broke apart and let the sun through. The wrens and orioles continued to fuss over the mealworms. A great blue heron was at its usual post on the dock next to the dam for at least two hours. Cormorants dried out on the dead snags by the lake. A female bufflehead paddled around the creek.
As I drove to Norfolk on an errand, the sun was shining but there was a bank of clouds on the horizon to the North and West. They grew visibly higher in ten minutes and passed overhead while I was inside. When I came out, everything was drenched and dark swirling clouds came to a sharp end on the Southern and Eastern horizon. I could see rain falling to the South. I followed the storm home while the sun escaped the Western edge and set the sky on fire. 
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