Cloudy

A pileated woodpecker came to breakfast.  She was only there for two minutes but I managed to take 40 pictures.  A Carolina wren checked out the breakfast menu and found it somewhat lacking.  A yellow rumped warbler and a blue jay observed from the trees.  Titmice and chickadees crowded the seed feeder. The red breasted mergansers were still fishing. 

I was gone for the middle of the day and when I next looked out a window, a rather dark pelican floated on the creek.  A cormorant perched on a dock piling.  Three more used the dead snag on the lake.  At least nine shovelers on the lake pinwheeled to stir up tidbits.  Hooded mergansers joined the red breasted on the creek.  A great blue heron took up the post after the cormorant left. The large dark duck was back on the lake and I think it was a Muscovy.  By that time there were six cormorants on the snag. 

A male red bellied woodpecker was anxious about the suet.  White throated sparrows and yellow rumped warblers scurried around.  The clouds thickened during the afternoon and cut down the available light.  The ridges of cloud picked up a little sunset color.