Early morning was very dark and gloomy. About 9am rain began and we had a few minutes of snow around 11:30am. An early Carolina wren was determined to break into the covered dish of mealworms but eventually moved to the suet and then the mulch White throated sparrows, juncos, and the usual seed eaters also were not deterred by the precipitation. The snow did not stick anywhere.
Wind dried the windows as the temperature dropped. More birds came for lunch including a white breasted nuthatch the camera missed. A wren glared at me because the dish feeders were still capped. I fixed that as soon as I finished eating. By around 2pm, blue rents appeared in the overcast and we had some sunshine. A couple of squirrels cautiously shared the space below the seed feeder. A wren and a white throat shared mealworms.
Cornell says there is an irruption of finches and other seed eaters because it was a bad year up North. They have sighting maps so I looked for red breasted nuthatches.
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