I had to change the password and didn't have it on the laptop yet, so I couldn't open Blogger yesterday. But it was a good bird day. Wind roughed up the creek but that didn't stop pelicans. A great blue heron used the floating dock.
A couple of feathers were snagged on a mountain mint stalk. The orioles were still here. A pale pine warbler sneaked past the boss butterbutt, but not for long. A female red-bellied woodpecker discovered the suet. Juncos came to forage. Starlings came for everything.
The newspaper began publishing the pollen count - happy Spring!
Today I burned through a whole lot of pixels. The gray sky refused to release much rain. Brown headed nuthatches kept the sunflower feeder busy. A white breasted nuthatch was more interested in suet and other treats. Expecting rain, I put out no jelly so the orioles ate barkbutter balls. So did starlings and bluebirds. The butterbutt monitored the feeders from a tree branch. Juncos and the pale pine warbler returned. Robins hung out in the trees.
Pelicans coasted above the creek while a handful of buffleheads bobbed on the surface. The water wasn't as rough as yesterday. Egrets and herons fished the shallows. One heron roosted up in the pine. A half dozen hoodies came along in the late afternoon. A herring gull, I think, floated around the end of the dock. It was paler than the typical herring gull but didn't look like any other species.
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