Tree and birds

The songbirds jump out of the brush as if to say, "What about us?"  Juncos, chickadees, spotted towhee, robins, a nuthatch (or possibly creeper), a large flock of unmarked cedar waxwings (no red, no yellow, immature?) darting across the road from tree to tree, some type of small sparrow that prefers to run along the ground rather than fly away, and a flock of red-winged blackbirds flew overhead; voices like water.  On the lake: a western grebe, mallards, gadwalls, a couple of n. shovelers (non-breeding), and a lone heron lording it over the pond. Water levels very low.

Here are a couple of pictures of the stump for how far down the lightning cracked the tree, and for the fur-like nature of the cut bark. (Sequoiadendron giganteum, for the record.)

What was left, September 27/L Herlevi 2015

Redwood Bark, September 27/L Herlevi 2015