Friday, January 7, 2022

Chilly

Heavy, dark clouds that looked full of snow slid across the sky without dropping a thing.  A Carolina wren was up early looking for breakfast.  It mooned me repeatedly while working on the barkbutter.  An egret landed in a tree across the creek but was visible through a "window" between branches on my side of the creek.  The warblers arrived for fresh suet. 

Bluebirds got interested in the barkbutter too, and even in seeds.  I witnessed an aerial fight between a cardinal and a smaller bluebird.  There was plenty of food and they don't really share the same tastes, so I don;t know what made the smaller bird so angry. There were other instances of shoving and diving at a perched bird.  Strange. 

White throated sparrows foraged alongside pine and yellow rumped warblers.  Even the wren poked through the mulch.  The yellow rumped warblers were bolder today about getting a turn at the suet.  

After dark the crescent moon was just past the peak of its transit across the sky.  


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