Overcast

The starlings finished off the suet but K hung a fresh block.  I don't think the pileated woodpeckers ever ate any of the last one - the last time I saw a pileated was ten days ago.  However, the red bellied woodpeckers made frequent visits.  Mockingbirds returned too.  A titmouse was displeased that the barkbutter dish was empty.  White throated sparrows stuck to terra firma.  I saw the white breasted nuthatch again but it took off just as I snapped it.  Myrtle warblers scavenged what they could find.  A female oriole found the jelly.  

A great blue heron landed on the dock.  The creek was gray with a surface that looked like sandpaper, flat but rough.  The hackberry was leafing out.