Misty, moisty day

At over 90% humidity, the weather fit the nursery rhyme.  Even though it didn't rain and a cold breeze came from the North, nothing dried out.  A starling showed up early but didn't return.  Carolina wrens were around all day, as were white throated sparrows.  The yellow rumped warbler kept watch on the suet but that didn't deter the downy woodpeckers.  The brown thrasher returned to its crumb hunting.  And then the feral cat came hunting.  It was soon followed by the collar-wearing tabby cat. 

I saw a bufflehead drake several times and a female once.  Pelicans fished all day, including the brown one.  I saw a great blue heron fly past and later land on the dock.  A hooded merganser drake popped up.  Something white wrestled just under the creek's surface and then disappeared.  On the far side of the creek, a female wood duck was barely visible. 

At lunch time a female bluebird joined the suet queue.  The male red bellied woodpecker took over the suet and later a female did the same.  I think they are a pair though I didn't see them together.  The goldfinch foraged briefly.  One female oriole returned to the suet.  The mockingbird also got a turn at the suet. A blue jay checked for barkbutter balls but only took two.  Many of the birds looked wet where usually rain just beads up on feathers.