This morning I got up earlier, and was rewarded with a lot more bird activity. The ducks were back en force...lots of mallards, moving slowly along the bay. One herring gull flew by! A blue jay appeared at the feeder, along with two tufted titmice and our friend the chickadee...who was suddenly replaced at the feeder by another chickadee! First time I'd seen that.
They took turns for awhile, and I was looking at the bush with my binoculars trying to locate the other chickadee when suddenly I saw this:
What's this, a reddish tail?? Must be a cardinal, but too brown of a body to be the male. Must be the cardinal's mate!
I looked around for the male, and found him in a tree nearby:
He's a little harder to spot, but obliged me later by coming to the feeder.
Look at the nuthatch, peeking out from the trunk of the tree! Waiting patiently, as usual. He's an interesting guy...spent a long time just parked on the tree, facing downward with his neck craned up...he must have better neck muscles than me.
Also spotted today were a few mergansers and one swan.
Here's the cardinal's mate, in a rare glimmer of sunshine:
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