The short day was sunny and cold but not as windy as I expected. The creek was coated with leaves so maybe the wind blew in the night. A bufflehead drake floated among dock pilings with their barnacles exposed. White throats scrounged for seeds. Blue jays picked at barkbutter crumbs. The female oriole returned but didn't cooperate with the camera at first.
Crows and a gull flew back and forth across the creek. The oriole returned at lunch and posed. A Carolina wren hopped around. A pine warbler noticed that I had refilled the barkbutter dish. I noticed something white way up in a pine tree across the creek. Just as I was about to give up on identifying it, it revealed itself as a great blue heron's beak. K harvested the last pepper and brought the plants inside.
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