All day rain

For some reason the weather found favor with the white throated sparrows.  Every time I looked, they were busy kicking mulch, hoping to find fallen seeds.  The warblers continued to war over the suet which had gotten quite small.  A starling showed up but there were no barkbutter balls because of the rain.  Brown headed nuthatches made many visits to the seeds, regardless of whether other, larger birds were already there.  

The creek was disturbed only by raindrops and the occasional pelican.  There were short lulls in the rainfall which was never heavy.  But the day remained gray and dim and dark came early.