Titmice visited the feeder during breakfast but I didn't take any pictures. Honeybees visited the camellia flowers. The rain began in the late morning and lasted till near evening. At times it was quite heavy.
Because the wind was from the Southwest, the North-facing windows stayed dry at first. Chickadees ventured out during every lull and the downy woodpeckers visited nearly as often. House finches and cardinals also let their hunger overcome the weather. And I finally got a decent picture of the red breasted nuthatch.
After the sun returned, something spooked a great blue heron on a neighbor's dock. A flock of mallards paddled away too. They encountered a flock of hoodies coming downstream. I counted five drakes and four females, but the females were harder to see. I needn't have worried that yesterday's drake would get lonely. Something made mysterious riffles and rings in the water. If it was a school of fish, the ducks must have already been full because they ignored it.
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