Still hot

There was a lot more cloud cover but it didn't lower the temperature.  Sunset, however, began a slow slide that's supposed to end in the 40s Saturday night.  Daffodils were blooming like it was a competition.  A flurry of birds mostly escaped the camera, but there was a male towhee among the regulars.  The sun broke through just in time to turn me into a silhouette on Zoom.  Turtles crowded the logs to enjoy it, the sun not the Zoom.  There were six when the meeting started and eight at the end because the sun was reaching further along the log.  

At lunch time there was plenty of sunshine but lots of thin clouds blowing East and an overall haze.  Bluebirds and blue jays craved barkbutter balls.  I saw a white throated sparrow among green buds on the wild cherry.  Downy and red bellied woodpeckers overcame their wariness of me to get to the barkbutter.  Both brown thrashers visited but only one tried feeding from the cup.  The warbler boss was still around and so were juncos!  A mockingbird came and left without eating.  A song sparrow hunted in the grass.  A cabbage white butterfly flitted through the bushes. 

Crows stayed busy harassing bigger birds, like the young eagle and possibly an osprey or hawk.  A heron flew over the house.  Pelicans liked the low tide in the creek. Something caused bursts of rings where the water was only an inch or two deep.  The water was still clear enough to see green seaweed.  Crows prospected in the mud for tasty morsels.