And more rain

Breakfast was dark and wet.  Nevertheless, many birds showed up: cardinals, chickadees, titmice, and nuthatches for seeds with white throats finding what fell, a yellow rumped warbler for suet, and wrens for mealworms.  I saw an oriole in the camellia.  A bufflehead was out on the creek.

The rain drizzled to a stop around noon.  A wren tried suet since the mealworms were gone and the dish full of rain.  Then a downy woodpecker took possession. We were gone for about an hour.  When we got back a house finch was on the feeder.  They've been scarce for a while.  I went out to put out bark butter bits since the mealworms were running low and nearly bumped into a pine warbler on the suet.  He wasn't willing to stay. 

A pelican plunged into the creek but I don't think it caught anything.  A couple of buzzards sat on a fence across the creek, staring at the lake.  Then one bumped the other off its perch.  They were close to where the buzzards were in the tree a few days ago.  It was really too dark for the camera.