I woke up to overcast, but the cloud cover peeled open from the North during breakfast. That was the trailing edge of a fierce front that moved through last night. Thankfully the storm was not still spawning tornadoes. It pulled the temperature back into the normal range for this time of year. And it may have brought more birds, or perhaps the chill brought them to the feeders. The camera missed an early bird Carolina wren, pelicans, and a flicker with designs on the suet.
Titmice and chickadees had to contend with bold brown headed nuthatches. Bluebirds were thick! They competed for suet with the pine and yellow rumped warblers. One bluebird investigated the seed feeder and must have found some hulled seeds. She ejected a chickadee that wanted a place on the perch. The downy woodpeckers gave up and headed over to the barkbutter.
A blue jay watched from the trees. The bufflehead drake fished. A very red bellied woodpecker female dug into the suet. At least one white throated sparrow foraged for what the other birds dropped. A bluebird ate beautyberries until a mockingbird showed up. I thought I saw an egret among the commuting cormorants at dusk.
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