Heavy clouds

It's quite warm and will probably rain later. The feeder has had all the usual visitors, chickadees, titmice, house finches and cardinals, plus a goldfinch. The female cardinal seems willing to share. Juncos are still hunting food on the ground and on the feeder. They were joined by robins on the ground. Some insects are flying and a mosquito landed on the window frame.

And I saw a woodpecker in silhouette but couldn't tell what kind. It was the right size for a red bellied, but mainly it hitched itself up the trunk of the sweet gum in a characteristically woodpecker move.

The maple across the creek seems to be enveloped in a red fog. And some other trees are budding - oak, gum, hickory. On the creek I saw geese and mallards, and a kingfisher on the piling. Crows were calling but a gull flew overhead making a "caw" sound that was more crow-like than the crows. I believe some doves flew overhead too.