Pleasant

The warmth lingered longer than the rain and wind. There wasn't much to see on the creek, except boaters, probably because the mild weather made the bay more attractive.  Early in the morning a few hoodies and a bufflehead paddled around the dock across the creek then disappeared.  The feeder birds, however, hung around. 

Bulbs were pushing sprouts up.  Something took very small bites out of the leaves on the azalea at the deep end of the pool.  They were smaller that the leaf cutter bee's work, so perhaps ants?  Honeybees were busy on the fatsia flowers, a testimony to the temperature.  I saw yellow jackets and flies as well. 

All the warblers visited.  And all three orioles appeared at once, the male and two females.  Nuthatches dashed to the feeder and away.   One female is much more brightly colored than the other.  The Carolina wren popped up all over the yard and managed to get some quality time on the suet.  And of course the downy woodpeckers showed up.  A male red bellied woodpecker lurked in the trees.  Four doves tromped around the birdbath while white throats dodged around them.  And very late in the afternoon a pair of juncos pecked around the patio.