Saturday, January 21, 2023

Brrrrrr

Though sunny, it felt a lot colder.  Herons and egrets fished all day.  A flotilla of pelicans passed during my meeting.  I saw them reflected on the computer screen and was very tempted to abandon my responsibility.  Cormorants and buffleheads joined the fishing.  

A downy worked on the suet.  A male and two or three female orioles ate up two helpings of grape jelly.  Myrtle warblers had a taste for jelly too.  I noticed that when one butterbutt wants to intimidate another, it elevates its tail like a wren, which displays that yellow rump.  Pine warblers and bluebirds were around too.  A brown headed nuthatch took advantage of an opening on the seed feeder perch.  A molting blue jay visited the barkbutter. 

A starling came for barkbutter balls and brought a red-winged blackbird who enjoyed the birdbath.  K kindly leveled the relocated birdbath and arranged a bag-full of pine-bark nuggets around it.  I am so glad to have the liriope gone!    Two doves inspected the new mulch.  A flicker rested on a dogwood branch.  A mockingbird was too wary to get much to eat.  A junco investigated the jelly but didn't find it appealing.  A Carolina wren hunted for bits I'd spilled.  


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