Getting cloudy

Cardinals, finches, doves and the towhee pair plus a female hummingbird came early. By lunch, it was just finches and cardinals.  A skink ran under the feeder apparently having no fear of the birds.  Its legs are so inconspicuous that it appears to just flow.  Cabbage butterflies, wasps and dragonflies are flitting around.

The yellow iris have come into bloom.  Chickadees don't mind my sitting outside near the feeder.  The finches were also more interested in seeds than me as long as I didn't move.  But the cardinals refused to land.

This evening the black rat snake showed up under the chair I'd been using.  You can tell it is frightened by the way it's kinked up.