Rainy afternoon

In the morning, heavy clouds hung overhead like a soggy mattress.  Birds congregated shortly after I began breakfast.  Warblers were too fast for the camera in the gloomy light.  I did capture bluebirds, a downy woodpecker, a brown headed nuthatch, and then the feral cat showed up for a little birdwatching.  

Later, a blue jay sought some barkbutter balls.  A Carolina wren followed.  Early in the day, the creek was absolutely still but the reflections were gray in the low light.  After lunch, as rain fell a bufflehead drake floated motionless on the still water.  A great blue heron preened on the fallen tree in the lake.  Toward evening young cormorants and mallards gathered on the lake logs.