Overnight rain and a gray sky gave no indication that there was such a thing as sun. But directionless illumination can be good for photography, as long as there is enough light. Mostly the light was poor today - birds moved faster than the shutter.
The white throated sparrow showed up first. Warblers and Carolina wrens attacked the suet. Then the mockingbird came back for another try.
Blue jays tried foraging in the mulch. The feeder counterweight is set too low for them. The male red bellied woodpecker was soon followed by a downy woodpecker. And then the cat.
At lunch, a brown thrasher discovered the fresh bark butter balls. The mockingbird was not impressed. Pine warblers were getting really bold and challenging larger birds on the suet. I think a couple of birds were pine siskins. I wonder if I've been seeing them all along and thinking they were female house finches?
The song sparrow scouted the seed feeder. I discovered goldfinches up in the sweet gum plucking seeds from the gumballs. (Gumballs look eerily like diagrams of coronavirus.) There were flickers of sunlight in the afternoon, but too much cloud cover to think of seeing the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Maybe tomorrow night.
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