This was Lunar New Year, it was raining, and the wind was from the NNE, a recipe for high tides. Cold and rainy isn't bad for bird counting but it's lousy weather for photos. The windows were streaked and spotted and the light was poor. A Carolina wren worked on the remnant of suet that I put out on the 5th. It lasted a whole week.
I saw blue jays in the trees. A mockingbird could see the suet but couldn't manage to hang from the cage and peck at it. Alas, a starling managed quite well. So did a yellow rumped warbler when the starling was full. Three white throated sparrows and a brown thrasher cleaned up on the ground. However the cat was on the prowl.
Pelicans were active on and over the creek. I saw some mallards, geese, a bufflehead drake, and maybe a cormorant. I think the fishing birds prefer low tide.
By lunch time there was no suet left. The obnoxious little warbler was sure that if it looked one more time the suet would reappear. The downy woodpecker didn't take as much convincing. Juncos showed up and joined the sparrow clean up crew.
After lunch the rain seemed to be in a lull so I put out the last block of suet. I accidentally got a chain link caught on the hook and had to fight with it while icy water from the ant moat slopped on my fingers. Karma, no doubt, for laughing when the ant moat gave a starling a bath. A Carolina wren noticed the suet right away. Then the butterbutt started on the other side of the suet.
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