Great blue herons prowled the banks of the creek in the early light. I saw a duck, dark with a black bill, that wasn't one I recognized, but the photo was blurry. Pretty soon a male downy woodpecker arrived for suet. Yellow rumped warblers got into everything. Then juncos foraged all over the patio. A pine warbler scared a yellow rumped warbler off the suet. A song sparrow wanted a drink.
White throats finally showed up at lunch. Carolina wrens came along, then doves. A female bluebird checked out the menu, but alas, squirrels had eaten all the mealworms. Titmice were torn between the seeds and the suet. The pine warbler came back. A female downy replaced the male. The one that got away (with a sunflower seed) was a white breasted nuthatch.
Toward evening, a crow perched atop a pine across the creek. It was buzzed by homeward bound cormorants. Above the dam, other cormorants perched on dead tree limbs to dry their wings.
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