A rain squall hit as we were getting up and I think there had been more rain earlier. The 99% humidity dropped as the temperature climbed. They met somewhere around 70. A brown thrasher hit the bark butter balls several times but was always too fast for me. So were a blue jay and a Carolina wren. Titmice were more cooperative but I have all the titmice photos I ever want. Both cats wandered through, the feral black-and-white and the tabby with a blue collar.
As we were finishing Thanksgiving dinner (
Mole Con Pavo), a heron landed on the dock and a kingfisher zipped past. Then the red breasted nuthatch rewarded my patience. It didn't even flinch when a squirrel got on top of the feeder. Downy woodpeckers went at the suet, of course. Finally the clouds broke apart and a half dozen turtles bunched up to sun themselves. Then I spotted the sapsucker on a pine tree and I ran the battery down taking pictures of it. When the sun came out, I went outside though it still seemed quite damp. I wandered around taking pictures of sunlit leaves. A slug was chomping into the fungus.
But I heard something scolding sotto voce so I came inside to let it appear. It was a red bellied woodpecker, making the third woodpecker species in one day.
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