Sunny and mild

Only a few birds joined us for breakfast. The yellow rumped warbler was up first.  A wren ate mealworms.  After a while a titmouse had some suet while several birds including the warbler flew around in the trees.  Something made V-shaped ripples in the creek and later I saw seven female mergansers fly downstream.

Doves were out when we got home.  Ruddy ducks napped and drifted, then paddled back without ever lifting their heads.  A great blackback gull flew downstream and let loose with a large quantity of guano.  A couple of kingfishers raged back and forth along the creek till one gave up and the other, a female perched on our dock.  Herons watched the water from different vantage points.  I saw the red bellied woodpecker around the middle of the afternoon, but had left the camera elsewhere.  A few buffleheads dived.  Sunset tinted streaky clouds gold while the cormorants flew home.