Cold

The slack water reflected bright light at sunrise.  The song sparrow was sitting on the empty mealworm dish.  When I went out to refill it, I saw a kingfisher plunge and fly off.  The male red bellied woodpecker got as far as the post, then panicked.  The female had a good helping of suet.  A yellow rumped warbler, a red breasted nuthatch, a wren, and a downy also visited.  White throats foraged until the feral cat showed up.  The tide was very low but a few buffleheads were out on the creek.

During the morning dark cumulus clouds blew in from the West.  By lunch the sky was overcast with occasional blue rifts that admitted sunlight.  Titmice joined the feeder birds but the downy woodpecker seized the suet and intimidated a titmouse. Two wrens informed me that the mealworm dish was empty. 

A short light rain fell in mid afternoon.  Showers alternated with moments of sun, but no rainbow.  Two female buffleheads preened after fishing.  Pelicans patrolled the creek though the wind roughened the surface so I don't know how they could see fish. The sky cleared for the last couple of hours of daylight.