The sun returned and the birds apparently found food elsewhere. A song sparrow poked through the mulch. Clouds made the sunlight flick on and off like a kid playing with the light switch.
I saw a kingfisher alight on a dock piling so I hurried to a better window. I suppose it was the male that's been around for months, but it kept its back to me so I couldn't be sure. Four or five crows scared it off. I wondered if they were the same gang that I saw on the bench the other day. I also wondered whether they were
American or fish crows. I didn't get a photo this time as they kept flying back and forth between docks.
While I was there, a hooded merganser drake paddled past, headed upstream. Turtles congregated on their log in the lake to enjoy the sunshine. Pelicans flew by and one plunged and caught a fish.
The yellow rumped warbler with the leftover mask landed in the tree above the window. A mockingbird worked on the suet by this window. Then some other bird flew at it and banged into the window but kept going. It made me jump and I didn't get a good look. A pine warbler watched from a twig. Then a red breasted nuthatch brought a seed to a pine branch to hammer open.
My peppers are ripening in the house. They didn't get very big but there's something so satisfying about eating food you grew. K is keeping the plants healthy. In the afternoon a female oriole came to the patio suet feeder. She was a deep orange which is supposed to indicate an older bird. The one yesterday was more of a lemon color on the breast and white on the belly. A Carolina wren got a drink. A female hooded merganser paddled upstream.
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