Today was much like yesterday and I spent too much time taking pictures. There were still plates of ice drifting on the creek. A hoodie drake floated past. A lone red breasted merganser also drifted with the current as she preened. Buffleheads fished all day long. I saw one pelican floating down by the dam outfall.
A white breasted nuthatch showed up early, spooked, and never came back. Juncos and a few white throats looked for food that had fallen into the mulch. The pair of Carolina wrens came and went throughout the day. The yellow rumped warbler continued to bully the pine warbler. A blue jay was thirsty. The kinglet mostly mooned me and only rarely showed his face.
The flock of robins was back. A female red winged blackbird followed a dove around the pool. Starlings kept sticking their greedy, yellow beaks into the suet. And I kept chasing them away. One starling even bullied a red wing off the suet. Downy and red bellied woodpeckers wanted suet as always. A flicker was visible briefly on a trunk.
A couple of squirrels courted. She was interested, but not quite ready. A large flock of buzzards swirled around each other for a minute, then disappeared. The cat appeared in the late afternoon but as usual the birds all left.
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