Changeable

The temperature dropped and rain began around 10am.  By early afternoon there was sunshine and a chill North wind.  Then it got gray again.  Juncos, white throats, and yellow rumps were not ready to migrate, though I detected the beginnings of breeding plumage on the warblers.  Titmice, chickadees, and cormorants will not be leaving.  I counted at least 16 cormorants bunched up on the logs by the lake, a veritable gulp of cormorants.