Gray

Nothing but woodpeckers and egrets at breakfast.  The sky stayed overcast all day. 

At lunch, a couple of great crested flycatchers landed in the cherry.  Carolina wrens came for mealworms.  A titmouse joined the regulars and the woodpeckers for sunflower seeds.  The cardinals continued to court and one male chased off the other.  A queen yellow jacket looked for a spot to nest. 

For most of the day, a snowy egret fished on the rocks at the dam outfall where its yellow feet were no use.  A great egret joined it.  Laughing gulls fished in the wake of the dredge barge.  A yellow crowned night heron landed on the dock, but saw me.  I was trying to locate a chattering bird that sounded like a kingfisher but higher pitched. 

Seen but not photographed: a skink, a goldfinch, a great blue heron, and a hummer.  The hummer turned up its beak at the feeder so we took it in for a cleaning.  There were lots of green blueberries swelling.