There was a flicker of sunlight at breakfast and then it was gone. Gray light made the creek dull even though it was placid. Chickadees queued up for the fresh seeds in the feeder. A white breasted nuthatch checked out the suet and barkbutter balls as well.
Once the rain began, a mockingbird only registered as a blur on the camera. A cardinal dripped. A Carolina wren was fine with rain-mushed barkbutter balls. The downy woodpecker's suet shed rain. As the afternoon wore on, the rain got heavier and the sky darker.
We were well outside the path of the annular eclipse or else I would have been quite upset with the weather. I tried the NASA website which was mostly talking heads but did show the eclipse. Too much of the sun was visible around the moon for prominences to show up. It was just a thin gold ring, lopsided first one way then the other.
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