A very warm day despite clouds and wind - the thermometer hit 80. The creek was rumpled and gray. Big birds I think were pelicans flew over the water. The mockingbirds were hungry again and visited feeders all through the day. They lurked in the Carolina jessamine and in the cedar out front. I could see a nest in the cedar, but not whether it was last year's or this. The crossvine had a bud ready to open. Wood hyacinths were beginning to bloom. There were moments of sunlight and also times that looked like immanent rain, but no rain fell and the sunshine was brief.
A pine warbler visited the suet. The female red belly defeated me again. A white throated sparrow scrounged seeds from the mulch. A brown headed nuthatch tried to sneak past a house finch. Then a bluebird ate seeds. (I put out barkbutter balls at breakfast and mealworms at lunch but they got eaten when I wasn't watching.) A white breasted nuthatch showed up at suppertime.
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