This time I started tracking birds as soon as breakfast was ready. The creek was gorgeous in the early sunlight, but geese, a couple of cormorants, and a mallard drake were all that floated on it. A pair of hoodies flew upstream almost too fast to identify. A heron perched on our dock piling. A pelican patrolled the creek and a gull sailed across the sky.
Around the feeders I saw two Carolina wrens, a butterbutt, a female cardinal, the red bellied woodpecker and a downy woodpecker, and house finches. A song sparrow and one of the white throats bathed, enjoying the mild temperature. Four crows flew low over the songbirds.
At lunch time I saw a fly and later a cabbage white. The oriole, a chickadee, and a titmouse showed up. A pine warbler ate suet till the butterbutt chased it off. Then a downy woodpecker got some. The two Carolina wrens stuck with mealworms and emptied the dish. A gull and three buzzards circled high in the air. Two doves mated on the walkway across the pool, until they froze to avoid a predator.
When I went out after lunch, the butterfly was still around and honeybees worked on the rosemary. Clouds inched across the sky, thinning the sunlight, and a breeze began to chill me. Crows chased two
red tailed hawks across the sky repeatedly. That might explain the doves' behavior. Gulls, a heron, and a pelican also flew past. Several pairs of mallards paddled on the creek. A flicker perched in the very top of the oak and a cardinal sang his heart out. Both woodpecker species were around, but anxious over my presence. I glimpsed song and white throated sparrows and the oriole.
There were shovelers, mallards, and woodducks around the snags on the lake in the late afternoon. Maybe wigeons, ring necked ducks, and others as well. And some turtles had hauled out onto a log. An egret perched on a dead tree and watched. I got a couple of bad photos of a
pied-billed grebe on the creek.
Around the feeders I saw two Carolina wrens, a butterbutt, a female cardinal, the red bellied woodpecker and a downy woodpecker, and house finches. A song sparrow and one of the white throats bathed, enjoying the mild temperature. Four crows flew low over the songbirds.
At lunch time I saw a fly and later a cabbage white. The oriole, a chickadee, and a titmouse showed up. A pine warbler ate suet till the butterbutt chased it off. Then a downy woodpecker got some. The two Carolina wrens stuck with mealworms and emptied the dish. A gull and three buzzards circled high in the air. Two doves mated on the walkway across the pool, until they froze to avoid a predator. 
When I went out after lunch, the butterfly was still around and honeybees worked on the rosemary. Clouds inched across the sky, thinning the sunlight, and a breeze began to chill me. Crows chased two red tailed hawks across the sky repeatedly. That might explain the doves' behavior. Gulls, a heron, and a pelican also flew past. Several pairs of mallards paddled on the creek. A flicker perched in the very top of the oak and a cardinal sang his heart out. Both woodpecker species were around, but anxious over my presence. I glimpsed song and white throated sparrows and the oriole. 
There were shovelers, mallards, and woodducks around the snags on the lake in the late afternoon. Maybe wigeons, ring necked ducks, and others as well. And some turtles had hauled out onto a log. An egret perched on a dead tree and watched. I got a couple of bad photos of a pied-billed grebe on the creek. 
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