Busy morning

It was cloudy again and a little warmer.  A male hooded merganser popped up on the creek and acted like someone who can't find the cell phone.  He went back and forth and looked upstream and down.

Then a pair of bluebirds arrived.  The female expected mealworms, but a squirrel had eaten them all.  The pair sat on the railing and made faces.  A different white throated sparrow from yesterday foraged in the mulch.

A flicker made a commotion in the dogwood.  Another bird was involved, but whether it was a second flicker or the dove I saw a little late, I could not tell.

I went outside for parsley and discovered a bird grasshopper clinging to the window frame.  The parsley was pretty well chewed and I only saw one caterpillar.  But I found enough for cooking and left some for the caterpillar.

Chickadees discovered the suet.  A squirrel sniffed it, but couldn't get past the red pepper flakes. The only other sighting was a couple of cormorants making the creek boil when they dived.  Nothing interesting appeared after noon.  There was intermittent sunshine, but mostly cloud.