Wet

Overnight rain filled the birdbath and ant moat.  A female oriole was busy with the suet as soon as there was enough light to take a picture.  An hour later there was a flurry of birds, including a red-winged blackbird.  Then they all disappeared and soon I had to leave as well.  But as I was going I spotted a female pileated woodpecker on a pine trunk.  She was chipping away the base of a dead branch stub.  

At lunch, Carolina wrens competed with yellow rumped warblers for suet.  White throated sparrows looked for fallen treats.  Later, female downy woodpecker ventured out to the suet so a pine warbler joined in.  I thought I saw a hawk flash past. 

Pelicans flew over the creek.  Hooded mergansers fished from the surface.  There were only a few sasanqua buds left and only a few flowers.  Thick, dark clouds rushed Eastward and sporadically drizzled.  The sun occasionally found a rent in the clouds and lit up the trees against a stormy background.