Windy

We began with overcast.  The temperature climbed almost to 60, but with a fierce, gusty wind from the southwest that drove the water out of the creek.  The overcast tore apart around lunchtime and there was some sunshine, but then clouds returned and we had a downpour in the mid afternoon.  By sunset, there were rents in the cloud cover that the sun painted fiery red.  Even the cloues in the East were vividly colored.

The young eagle was back with a crow escort.  Unfortunately vegetation screened my view.  The eagle dropped a pale object I suspect was a chunk of fish.  That presented the crow with a dilemma, whether to continue harassing the eagle or to fly down and investigate possible food.  The food won.  

Few birds ventured out to the feeders and those that did struggled to hang on.  I saw two yellow rumped warblers and a pine warbler, the mockingbird, a hand full of white throated sparrows, downy woodpeckers, cardinals, house finches, and a brown thrasher.  A couple of gulls tried to fly into the wind.  A mallard pair stayed low in the water.