We woke up to more wet gray skies and bad lighting for pictures. The creek was a gray mirror at breakfast. Warblers and downy woodpeckers feeding under the suet benefited from its shelter. White throated sparrows down in the mulch just got wet. Carolina wrens as usual tried all the feeders. I had drained rainwater out of the mealworm dish. More buds were open on the dogwood.
Titmice showed up at lunch. A butterbutt actually tried the seed feeder. And a brown headed nuthatch landed on the suet but left quickly as another warbler zoomed in. I saw a goldfinch as I was leaving, midafternoon, but it got away. The tide was very high and the creek was wind-roughened on the Northern half, but still smooth on our side. A pelican cruised overhead and kept on going.
The sleet began on my way home around 4:30pm. A plank drifted downstream. Red breasted mergansers fished alongside buffleheads and gulls. A wood duck pair slipped through the fishing birds.
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