On a wet and dreary day, after lunch a pileated woodpecker visited the suet. In fact he returned a couple of times! He seemed to know exactly hot to get at the suet so I think it may be the same bird as last year.
Before the rain began, the cat lurked on the steps. A wet butterbutt fed on suet till another bumped it off. A white breasted nuthatch attempted to share the suet with a downy. It was not a success. The nuthatch moved to the seed feeder.
Two song sparrows foraged mostly on the ground but one found the barkbutter crumbs. And one waded in the birdbath. There were white throats and juncos as well. A pine warbler and a Carolina wren also liked the barkbutter crumbs. The song sparrow kicked a pine warbler off the barkbutter dish. It was after that that the pileated arrived.
A mockingbird would have preferred the bigger balls and flew off to the suet. A blue jay was also disappointed. When the pileated left, a Carolina wren appropriated the suet. A bluebird ate barkbutter crumbs.
Meanwhile, pelicans patrolled the creek. A few buffleheads were out in the rain. Cormorants lined the lake along with a few egrets. A tree held a dozen more egrets as twilight darkened the gray day. .
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