Overcast

Rain fell over night but it tapered off around sunrise. (Not that I could see the sun.) In fact, it was after breakfast before there was enough light for the camera.  A brown thrasher was up early but didn't return. The barkbutter ball dish was empty but I though it was too wet for a fresh batch.  The downy was already on the suet. 

A female oriole liked the idea of suet for breakfast.  The female downy objected.  White throated sparrows looked for what fell from the feeders.  Titrmice at a bit of everything.  The myrtle warbler asserted possession of the suet.  The Carolina wrens ignored that.  And then the red bellied woodpecker put them all to flight. 

I glimpsed a female hooded merganser on the creek.  Later a patch of water seemed to boil and cormorants popped to the surface from what I guess was a school of fish.

A couple of white throats decided this was a good day for a bath.  A song sparrow poked around the steps.    Doves wandered around and roosted in the dogwood.  Then the male oriole showed up for suet.  A junco hurried past the mulch. 

A flock of red winged blackbirds descended on the feeders while I was busy in the kitchen.  They spooked and then waited in the trees.  There were robins and starlings in the flock too.   The red bellied woodpecker was big enough to dissuade a blackbird from the suet but a starling was more aggressive. 

I had an afternoon program and by the time I got home, the light was going.   I saw a kingfisher land on a dock piling but all the camera got was a blue blur.