Early risers

Actually, the rabbit may have been up all night.  It went nose to nose with a squirrel.  The squirrel retreated to the ground under the feeder where it got into a dispute with the squirrel with the white spot.  A chase ensued and a few minutes later white spot returned.  Then the other or another came back.  Several doves are hanging around.  Finches and cardinals are visiting the seed feeder and a male hummer stopped in.  The sky is still gray with clouds. 

The sun is shining and the humidity is making it hot and sticky.  Butterflies, dragonflies and spiders are busy.  The spider in the window is sucking a small fly or wasp.  Both cabbage and sulphur butterflies are around, along with that orange one I think may be a fritillary.  The cardinals, finches, chickadees and titmice have been joined on the feeder by a genius among blue jays.  This jay has figured out that by landing lightly on the side of the feeder it can avoid tripping the counterweight.

Doves are rummaging on the ground and mallards keep trying to use the pool. A pair of geese escorted four goslings upstream.  While the sun heated things up, thin clouds dulled the sky.