Egrets, both great and snowy, clustered under the dam where they were out of the wind and in the sun. A great blue heron joined them. There must have been a school of fish under the wing-roughened water because the cormorants were out in force. I saw a few hooded mergansers downstream, through the vegetation. Later some ruddy ducks appeared. Gulls and pelicans flew over them.
The nuthatches were up early, but not early enough to beat the yellow rumped warbler to the suet. The wrens were happy with the new batch of mealworms. A titmouse sang in the dogwood. Downy woodpeckers were too busy eating to sing. White throat and song sparrows foraged everywhere but the suet. They pecked at the ice in the birdbath but it wouldn't melt.
The female red bellied woodpecker finally showed up. I thought it had run off with the male that I saw a couple of days age. Then a male pine warbler chased off the woodpecker four times its size.
The nuthatches were up early, but not early enough to beat the yellow rumped warbler to the suet. The wrens were happy with the new batch of mealworms. A titmouse sang in the dogwood. Downy woodpeckers were too busy eating to sing. White throat and song sparrows foraged everywhere but the suet. They pecked at the ice in the birdbath but it wouldn't melt.
The female red bellied woodpecker finally showed up. I thought it had run off with the male that I saw a couple of days age. Then a male pine warbler chased off the woodpecker four times its size.
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