Starting at breakfast, yard crews were running mowers and blowers, presumably so they would finish the week's work before the holiday. A pine warbler visited the barkbutter balls. Then one blue jay after another came until the dish was empty. Occasionally a titmouse got a morsel. I saw a brown headed and a white breasted nuthatch but they didn't hang around. The mockingbird peered in at me from a chair arm, then went to the birdbath for a drink.
Sunlight set the neighbor's Japanese maple afire. One hickory was leafless but the other was bright as brass. Four doves landed and locked around the birdbath for any food other birds had missed. White throats puttered around. I too puttered around pulling down cobwebs that had gotten garlanded with blown leaves. A Carolina wren investigated all the feeders, as usual.
A downy worked on the suet. I still haven't seen the bigger woodpecker species this Fall. A bluebird came in the afternoon and pushed the pine warbler off the barkbutter dish. The sun glowed behind a layer of
Stratus Translucidus cloud. The kingfisher was back on her dock perch but my photos were all blurred.
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