Morning was cloudy but with enough sunshine to cast a shadow. The profusion of birds made up for yesterday. First I saw a kingfisher on a dock post. The myrtle warbler resumed guarding the suet. The downy woodpeckers tried to ignore it. Suddenly, a white breasted nuthatch appeared on the suet but it didn't stay. I also saw song and white throated sparrows and that pesky brown thrasher.
Titmice ate a little of everything. The male oriole landed on the feeder hanger line a miniature sun. Then the male pileated woodpecker landed on the post and all the other birds fled. Woody studied the situation but couldn't figure out how to reach the suet from the post. Last year, a pileated did a back bend and ate with its head upside down. When Woody left a female oriole took his place. She shared the suet with a female downy, but soon left.
I got a blurry glimpse of what I think was a female wood duck on the creek. It disappeared so fast I wondered if it was a diving duck instead. The red bellied woodpecker showed up long after the pileated left. A few turtles basked on their log on the lake. The squirrel with the sore on her hip was just about healed.
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