Despite being breezy, the mist grew as thick as fog. At times sheets of mist blew up the creek. Sometimes the level of light dropped till I couldn't take photos. It cleared in the late morning to a white sky while everything below dripped. And the birds loved it, especially after I brought out fresh mealworms. A pine warbler had been sitting patiently on the feeder hanger.
I had a leisurely breakfast catching up on the newspaper and taking pictures. A male oriole pounced on the fresh jelly while the other one watched. A Carolina wren preferred mealworms. Titmice were hungry for seeds. Red breasted nuthatches mixed in with chickadees. Some diseased house finches showed up with beak damage.
Then a downy woodpecker showed up on the suet. The red bellied woodpecker nervously tackled the suet from the wrong side. It was intimidated by a pine warbler a quarter of its size. There was a yellow rumped warbler around but it mostly stayed on the ground.
White throated sparrows stayed under the shrubbery. So did a blue jay. And there were bluebirds in the brush where I couldn't get the camera to focus and the light was bad anyway. A flicker drove me nuts trying to focus. Mallards paddled around but the tide was way out. A pelican soared through the mist. Squirrels mostly foraged but the one that fancies itself an aerialist slipped on the wet wood.
A pair of bluebirds came for a drink during lunch. Squirrels engaged in foreplay all around the cedar. This included actually falling out of the tree! I had to restock the mealworms -hungry birds.Around 3pm, there were a few brief moments of sun. More bluebirds landed in the hackberry around then. An oriole was with them. The sky was only partly cloudy by sunset. And around midnight I saw the waning moon.
Despite being breezy, the mist grew as thick as fog. At times sheets of mist blew up the creek. Sometimes the level of light dropped till I couldn't take photos. It cleared in the late morning to a white sky while everything below dripped. And the birds loved it, especially after I brought out fresh mealworms. A pine warbler had been sitting patiently on the feeder hanger.
I had a leisurely breakfast catching up on the newspaper and taking pictures. A male oriole pounced on the fresh jelly while the other one watched. A Carolina wren preferred mealworms. Titmice were hungry for seeds. Red breasted nuthatches mixed in with chickadees. Some diseased house finches showed up with beak damage. 
Then a downy woodpecker showed up on the suet. The red bellied woodpecker nervously tackled the suet from the wrong side. It was intimidated by a pine warbler a quarter of its size. There was a yellow rumped warbler around but it mostly stayed on the ground. 
White throated sparrows stayed under the shrubbery. So did a blue jay. And there were bluebirds in the brush where I couldn't get the camera to focus and the light was bad anyway. A flicker drove me nuts trying to focus. Mallards paddled around but the tide was way out. A pelican soared through the mist. Squirrels mostly foraged but the one that fancies itself an aerialist slipped on the wet wood.
A pair of bluebirds came for a drink during lunch. Squirrels engaged in foreplay all around the cedar. This included actually falling out of the tree! I had to restock the mealworms -hungry birds.Around 3pm, there were a few brief moments of sun. More bluebirds landed in the hackberry around then. An oriole was with them. The sky was only partly cloudy by sunset. And around midnight I saw the waning moon. 
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