Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sunshine

Both feeders need cleaning and refilling.  A robin with a mass of nesting material paused on the roof.  A goldfinch checked out the yellow rue flowers - they seem to be attracted to yellow the way hummingbirds are to red.  Mating plumage echoing food source?  The sunshine caught an orb web in a blaze of iridescence that this photo only faintly captures.  The orb was originally perfect but the wires it was depending on weren't secured.

A rabbit was grazing over by the red maple.  I believe I saw a wren check out the birdhouse.  I cleaned and restocked the feeders which have no been visited by a chickadee, a titmouse, and a hummer.  A blue tailed skink scurried across the steps. It may have been the same one I saw yesterday over by the roses.  Another egret sailed through the airspace where the oak used to be. 

The afternoon was cooler and a little less humid.  A pair of brown thrashers foraged around the maple.  The male red bellied woodpecker that keeps grumbling and hammering showed himself.  The chickadee has a begging fledgling now that perched on the wrong feeder.  It also fed itself on the seed feeder while muttering "feed me" to itself.  And the wren is definitely considering becoming a tenant!  It was very thorough, checking inside and out. 

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