Sunrise light bounced off the opposite creek bank and painted the water orange and green. Then I had a meeting. A Carolina wren came for lunch. After lunch, I went outside to enjoy the sunshine even though the wind made the low 70s feel chilly. I heard but did not see crows and a blue jay. The dogwoods were all showing some fall coloration, but everything else was still green. Birds ate berries behind a curtain of leaves, frustrating the camera. A branch moves differently when something tugs on a berry than when the wind gusts. Finally I got a blurry shot of a mockingbird in the dogwood. I never did see what was eating beautyberries, perhaps a female cardinal.
Mallards dabbled under the bulkhead. There were bugs in the water but it was too cold to rescue them. One looked waspish. The other was a spiny assassin bug. A dark butterfly circled the yard but refused to alight. One moonflower blossom opened.
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