The sun was bright and the creek polished at breakfast. While I counted morning birds, I didn't get any pictures of them. I saw a pileated and a downy woodpecker, a blue jay, a junco, a mockingbird, a myrtle warbler, a bluebird, and a great blue heron. Then I missed the best morning hours for birds.
At lunch, the female pileated woodpecker visited. Two doves meandered around, along with a white throated sparrow. Chickadees came one at a time to the seed feeder so I could only count one. Bluebirds and pine and myrtle warblers competed for the barkbutter and a Carolina wren defied the boss warbler for some suet. That warbler also went after the chickadee.
The afternoon got windy again. In fact, the National Weather Service posted a gale warning mid afternoon. I had hopes that would encourage birds from the bay to seek the quieter creeks, but no. All I saw was mallards, geese, cormorants and an egret, even though the tide was out which often attracts the fishing birds. I did discover two turtles in the late afternoon sunshine on the lake.
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