Breakfast was not leisurely but bright sunlight and cold air made it easy on the camera. White throated sparrows hunted through the mulch and ignored the frozen birdbath. The red bellied woodpeckers were hungry for suet and the brown thrasher was there to clean up after them. And there were starlings which the mockingbird did not like. The mockingbird tried to boss the suet which frustrated the yellow rumped warbler that wanted that job. I braved the cold to put out barkbutter balls and pour hot water into the birdbath.
The cast had not changed much at lunch except there were Baltimore orioles. That irritated a downy woodpecker. Bluebirds joined the party. A red winged blackbird visited briefly. They seem to be more wary than other blackbirds. I saw a redbreasted nuthatch but it was gone before I wan ready. There were pelicans fishing all day but I never got a good shot.
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