Overnight fog

I could see it around 11pm last night diffusing street lights.  It's beginning to lift now, after 8am.  But the only animal life abroad yet is crows. 

Cardinals and chickadees arrived at the feeder while white throats and Carolina wrens scoured the ground.  One wren hammered at the mortar between bricks on the house.  It extracted something it liked.  Then it bathed with the whatever it was.  Glimmers of sun occurred after 10:30am.  An egret headed downstream.

And, by noon, the sky is a streaky blue.  Chickadees are still hungry.  A little later, a song sparrow showed up for its bath.  It was very thorough and soaked the patio!  Then a flock of hooded mergansers paddled upstream.  I counted three females and seven males, but there may have been more as they were diving. The redwood has turned very copper.


After 4pm the sky clouded up.  Chickadees, a female cardinal, and a song sparrow hung around the feeder till closing time. One chickadee came down to the birdbath to drink.  Cormorants crisscrossed the evening sky.