Gusting winds drove dark clouds down from the North, but in between sunshine transformed the morning. Despite that, I accumulated a good list of birds: male and female pileated woodpeckers, three starlings, four pine warblers, two yellow rumped warblers, two blue jays, a mockingbird, two titmice, the female red bellied woodpecker, a pair of house finches, a dove, a chickadee, an orange crowned warbler, two pelicans, a white throated sparrow, a brown headed nuthatch, a cormorant, a pair of bluebirds, and two crows.
By lunch time the temperature had risen a couple of degrees but was still in the middle 40s. The wind still whipped the trees but there was a lot more sunshine. I counted a female oriole, a pelican, two pine warblers, a chickadee, a titmouse, two starlings, a male cardinal, two yellow rumped warblers, two crows, two white throated sparrows, the red bellied woodpecker, a pair of hooded mergansers, a goldfinch, a mockingbird, a mallard drake, three cormorants, and two Canada geese.
I decided that was enough. One turtle basked on the lake log.
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