Graying

The General Assembly will consider a bill to designate the brown-belted bumblebee Bombus griseocollis as the official Virginia native pollinator.  But since it's not pollinating season, I was more cheered by the Carolina wren, faithful to the barkbutter dish.  A red bellied woodpecker marched along a branch.  Morning was sunny with passing clouds.  The day grew warm and afternoon skies were gray as the turbid water in the creek.  A great blue heron chased another away.  A pelican flew toward me but I forgot I'd turned the camera off.