The sky stayed overcast all day even as the wind got stronger. Since it was blowing from the south, the temperature reached above 70. At breakfast, the creek was quite with muted reflections freckled by wind-blown tree detritus. Blue jays queued up for barkbutter balls. The crows expressed interest too. Then along came the black cat.
A myrtle warbler that was almost finished molting prospected for suet crumbs. Soon a white throat did the same. A pine warbler preferred barkbutter balls. And the red bellied woodpecker preferred seeds. She has a very flexible neck.
A starling exhibited a new behavior. Two of them were working on a remnant of suet when one flew to the ground and picked up a beakfull of twigs or pine needles. It then flew back to the suet and dropped the twigs. I don't know if that was a nesting impulse or a threat of some sort.
Two brown headed nuthatches shared the seed feeder. A pine warbler had some suet. A white breasted nuthatch had some seeds. I went out front to plant some seeds. When I came back a downy woodpecker bumped a cardinal off the seed feeder perch. The cardinal returned when the downy left, only to be chased away by another male cardinal. The mockingbird pair visited.
The spartina that was planted last year came back up. I saw large birds flying but vegetation kept me from being sure if they were pelicans. The water looked well churned by the wind with a raft of tree fragments stretched along its length.
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