White sky

The sun is leaking through a thin overcast.  Everything is wet from last night.  The cardinal fledgling and father have visited, along with finches and squirrels.  I saw the male towhee up in a tree. The hummer came for brunch.  Chickadees also visited.  A goose family is feeding in the grass by the creek.  The cardinals are refusing to feed their fledgling and papa even chased the kid.  It alternates between sulking and acting pitiful and pecking at everything it sees.  For some reason it has not figured out what the feeder is for.

Since mid morning there have been heavy clouds menacing rain, but none has fallen.  Mallard drakes keep sneaking into the pool.  The cardinal fledgling is busily pecking everywhere but on the feeder. A wren stopped in briefly.  Chickadees have been acrobatic to get a turn at the feeder. Cabbage butterflies, an occasional dragonfly, wasps, bees and flies, especially mosquitoes are out in the humid air.  Toward evening, the cloud cover has resolved into individual cumulus puffs. Several egrets flew past and one came low overhead.