Dull morning

Chickadees were up early.  Warblers and woodpeckers were already breakfasting on suet and sparrows were busy on the ground.  Clouds covered the sky but sunlight occasionally leaked through.

The clouds thinned to haze as the morning wore on.  Warblers and woodpeckers kept at the suet.  A pelican flew upstream followed by paddling geese.  The white daffodils have opened.  The leucojum, however, look freezer-burned.  This was not the winter to be first out of the ground.