Ice gave the creek a matte finish that reflected colors but not shapes. Blue jays came early for barkbutter balls. One had no tail feathers. White throats foraged on the ground. The female pileated stretched to get suet which was nearly gone. Starlings butted in and ate too much. A warbler was sad about the state of the suet.
The tide was out and lunchtime. Across the creek a great blue heron fished under the bulkhead. Brown headed nuthatches showed up, then a female red bellied woodpecker took over the seeds. A mockingbird struggled to get a bite of suet. And then it was gone. The pileated was hair-on-fire
shocked!
K said, Look, an osprey, so I went to the window and it was a bald eagle on a dock piling. The yellow cat came birdwatching but the birds left. Eventually bluebirds showed up. An oriole ate jelly. A white breasted nuthatch was frustrated by bigger birds but finally got a seed. K hung another block of suet and a Carolina wren started in on it. In the late afternoon a dozen egrets gathered around the lake. A great blue heron occupied the boathouse roof where the pelicans like to sun themselves. There was still some unmelted ice by sunset.
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