Wet and windy

Songbirds stayed away.  Great blue herons occupied the docks, along with mallards.  The herons ignored each other, but they may have been sleeping.  Bushy chest feathers on one heron looked like a beard when it had its neck tucked.  

I spotted the female bufflehead again. A picture I snapped of a mallard drake lined up his bill and its reflection to make him appear to be the Pinocchio of ducks.

It rained less in the afternoon but the wind got stronger. The female downy woodpecker found the suet outside the window, possibly because that spot is more sheltered.  Eventually some rents appeared in the clouds, even as flying leaves photo-bombed my pictures.  It certainly did not feel as warm as predicted.