The temperature dropped throughout the day. The rain wasn't hard but it was steady and heavy enough to overflow all containers. Because the wind was from the North, the windows facing the feeders and the creek were too streaked for decent photography. And the light wasn't good either. But the birds were hungry so I tried anyway.
The first I saw was a downy woodpecker on the suet. We forgot to open the seed feeder for business, so when K finally did, chickadees and titmice queued up. Blue jays and a mockingbird tried for barkbutter or suet. The female red belied woodpecker only wanted suet.
Cardinals booted the other birds off the seed feeder. White throated sparrows liked the millet I tossed under a chair. A Carolina wren tried everything. A song sparrow poked through the mulch under the seed feeder. There may have been other kinds of birds that I couldn't identify.
A squirrel hoped the rain would wash the pepper off the suet, but it didn't. Serves it right for running off with my birdseed star. Of course, it may have been a different squirrel.
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