The sun was bright in a cloudless sky. White throated sparrows, Carolina wrens, starlings, red bellied and downy woodpeckers, and a blue jay came seeking breakfast. Fishing birds congregated at the dam outfall. I saw red breasted mergansers, gulls, cormorants, and pelicans. A charred log jammed against the dock.
At lunch, a yellow rumped warbler gave up on the flat-hung suet and worked on the bark butter balls. After lunch, a dead heron floated by in a raft of leaves and trash. I couldn't tell if it was tangled in the trash or killed by the wind, or possibly something else. Live gulls, mergansers, and a pelican fished further downstream. A lone goose stayed on the lake with the turtles.
Later I saw a few hoodies among the red breasted mergansers. Some buffleheads were also attracted by the fishing. At times one bird tried to steal another's catch. A live heron paced along the marsh grass. The coot was after something along the edges of pilings and dock floats. Algae or crustaceans? Pelicans passed by repeatedly. A bit of cloud rimmed the sky at sunset.
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