Long crystals covered the surface of the water in the birdbath at breakfast. The sky was a cloudless robin's egg blue and the creek was full of wavy reflections. A Carolina wren was up before there was enough light for pictures. A song sparrow was glad I scattered some seeds. A white throated sparrow was able to get some before they were all gone. Soon the downy woodpeckers arrived. The red bellied woodpecker lurked in the trees before venturing to the suet. A goldfinch seemed uncertain what was edible.
By lunch time, the creek was no longer calm. Clouds sped across the blue sky and occasionally blinked the sun. A female oriole slipped in for a bark butter ball. A Carolina wren had the same idea. The the male oriole had to have some. The orange crowned warbler preferred suet. And the ruby crowned kinglet went for the dish of bark butter. A song sparrow waded in the cold birdbath water looking for dropped seeds.
A female oriole tried to share the suet with a downy but it didn't last. A hooded merganser drake bobbed on the water. The sparrows, kinglet, and warbler hung around into the afternoon. So did I but eventually I had to do other things. The nearly full moon was up before sunset.
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