Cold

Warblers came before there was enough light to take pictures.  Blue jays helped empty the barkbutter ball dish.  White throated sparrows cleaned up the spills.  The sun got high enough to make everything glow.  

Baltimore orioles returned, both male and female.  A Carolina wren protested that the bigger birds had eaten all the barkbutter balls.   A bluebird was disappointed too.  

In the afternoon, dark, heavy clouds rimmed the horizon on the North and East.  A bufflehead swam with the geese.  Warblers, including the half blind one, discovered the new seed mix in the feeder.  The mockingbird came back.  I spotted an oriole in the sakaki bush.  A pale female oriole got some jelly.