Sunday, March 20, 2022

Equinox

Morning sunshine welcomed a brown thrasher, the pair of pileated woodpeckers, a red bellied woodpecker, and several blue jays. A female bufflehead paddled and dived.  Later, I saw two drakes with her.  Two starlings quarreled over the suet.  Bluebirds and myrtle warblers showed up at lunch time.  A pair of doves wandered around the birdbath. 

The temperature peaked at 69°.  Clouds covered the sky in the afternoon.  A Carolina wren, a white throated sparrow, and a cardinal pair found something to eat in front of the hose spigot, between the camellia and the azalea. The female red bellied woodpecker hiked up the redwood.  A tiger swallowtail alighted on one off the yellow and cream daffodils.  It didn't stay long.  

The sunset was spectacular.  As I looked Northeast, sunlight turned the distant pines orange while leaving the foreground in shade.  I went outside to look West where clouds made layers of gray and fiery rose-red.  . 


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