Rain

It was a dark and stormy morning.  I saw lightning and heard thunder,  Birds visited when the rain slackened, then fled when the next wave poured down.  A myrtle warbler paused on the chair below the steps.  The male downy was sheltered by the suet he was eating.  A Carolina wren looked for nibbles on top of the suet but the plastic stopped that.  White throats poked through the wet mulch.  A pine warbler was also puzzled by the plastic barrier on the suet.  Raindrops ornamented bare branches.  The wren figured out how to reach the suet.  The male red belly spooked when he got a drenching by landing on top of the suet.  A brown headed ninja nuthatch made off with a seed under a finch's beak.