GBBC day 2

I spent the nice morning in meetings and observed during the gray, wet afternoon. Sprinkles of rain began a little before 3pm and strengthened a bit around 4:30, but remained gentle.  The low light level ruined about half the photos. 

A pine warbler was waiting when I got home.  The male red bellied woodpecker worked on the nubbin of suet and then traded places with the female.  I didn't see a downy until late afternoon.  A blue jay watched from the cherry, but didn't come any closer.  The camera refused to focus on both pine and yellow rumped warblers in the cherry, but was fine with a drab female house finch.

A Carolina wren investigated K's granola, but decided against it, as did the white throated sparrows.  Even a squirrel seemed unenthusiastic.  Instead, I saw a squirrel apparently eating flower buds up in the dogwood. Titmice, as usual, stuck to the sunflower seeds. And the one junco I saw stayed down on the lower patio. 

A first winter black backed gull paddled in the creek. An adult ring billed gull stood on a piling.  A great blue heron fished up and down the creek.  Pelicans, a couple of cormorants and a hoodie drake also prospected for fish. 

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