Monday, November 13, 2017

Rainy

What with the rain, we were late opening the Sunflower Cafe.  Chickadees shrugged and hopped on the new brick of suet.  A Carolina wren was determined to find a way into the seed feeder but eventually gave up.  A white throated sparrow foraged in the wet mulch.  In the middle of the morning a downy woodpecker discovered the suet. 


Two male hooded mergansers cruised around the creek.  A couple of egrets and a great blue heron hunted under the dam.  A cormorant popped up with a shiny flat fish in its beak.  The bird had trouble getting the fish into a position to swallow, so all the other waterbirds rushed to "help."  The cormorant dived with its prize.  The last I saw, it still had not swallowed the fish. 
 

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