The rain ended before I got up, but the sky was gray and the air damp. The feeder dishes overflowed - fortunately they had been nearly empty. The female red bellied woodpecker woke up hungry for seeds. A song sparrow was also up early.
I emptied the mealworm bag and that attracted a titmouse. Pileated and downy woodpeckers traded off at the suet. Female orioles thought the mealworms were good but were happier when I got them some jelly. A yellow rumped warbler wandered forlornly waiting for the bigger birds to leave. A white throated sparrow searched the ground with more purpose. I glimpsed a brown headed nuthatch.
A squirrel thought it saw something good in the birdbath and worked hard to dislodge it but came up empty, and wet. Bluebirds rejoiced in the mealworms and the male actually evicted a male cardinal. There were two females with him. In the afternoon we got some sunshine but mostly cloudy skies. The temperature was in the 60s.
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