Damp and gray gave way to sun

Cardinals, chickadees, house finches, titmice, juncos, sparrows, and Carolina wrens came for breakfast.  Canada geese glided by.  Crows are carrying sticks in their beaks. A pelican passed on patrol.

Around 11am breaks appeared in the cloud cover accompanied by flickers of sunlight.  A female junco worked in the mulch.  A pelican bathed in the lake. The water has been quite glassy all day. 

Bu noon the only clouds were little fuzz patches.  The feeder is empty again.  A flock of black-and-white wings shot downstream too fast for me to react.  I believe they were red-breasted mergansers.  I had been focused on the rosemary where pollinating insects have reappeared - it is warm!

In her column today, Mary Reid Barrow said we should expect hummingbirds on April 1st and gave the link to this map.

K refilled the feeder late in the day.  At dusk, two white throated sparrows worked in the mulch.  The rising moon looks quite round.