Once again there were birds before there was enough light. Plus I was eating breakfast and trying to follow a legislative committee hearing. The cat arrived and removed temptation. Later starlings tried to gobble up all the suet.
Around noon the sky began to clear. Lots of birds came at lunch time. Pine and yellow rumped warblers renewed their dispute over suet. Five bluebirds argued about precedence. But the orioles put on the real show - four females and two males showed up! The mockingbird tried to police the suet. Blue jays noticed that I put out barkbutter balls. All three species of nuthatch visited - brown headed in the early morning, red breasted in the afternoon, and white breasted on and off all day. Carolina wrens were repeat visitors along with tufted titmice.
Pelicans cruised the creek all day, until I moved to the back room fro a better view. I saw several female buffleheads. A great blue heron landed on the dock, then moved to a perch in a pine across the creek. Canada geese took over the lake logs but at least one shoveler drake was paddling around behind them. A hooded merganser pair passed through headed downstream.
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