Oops

We’d gone to our daughter’s place to have lunch with her and visit for a while. Out in the yard a gray squirrel with only a half a tail was running around under the trees –

But it wasn’t just the squirrel that was of interest, the trees and shrubs in the yard were full of birds, some residents and some migrants. Cedar waxwings were everywhere in the tops of the trees, but never came low enough for photos.

There were three species of woodpeckers: red-bellied, downy and yellow-bellied sapsucker –

Plus a female/juvenile purple finch –

And a couple of ruby-crowned kinglets –

Because the light was terrible – dark gray sky plus many of the birds were in the shade – most of the photos weren't good. However, several yellow-rumped warblers did present good opportunities for photos – 

Interestingly, one of those warblers found a meal in a spider web –

Whether the meal was a spider or an insect the spider had wrapped in silk can't be determined, it merely looks like a small white blob in front of the bird until in the last photo it appears as something dark in the bird's beak.

Less than a minute later it found something else in another spider web, stretched forward to grasp it – and apparently lost its balance –

And then looked around as if to say “You didn’t see that.”