Saturday, September 1, 2012

Sun, humidity and finches

The sky is more white than blue but the sun is bright.  The condensation has evaporated. A hummer visited.  A tattered pair of adult cardinals and a juvenile have been around.  Some kind of drama shook the cedar at the corner of the patio.  Two doves foraged - parent and offspring?  Sulphur butterflies and an orange one I didn't see clearly flitted about.  A caterpillar was on the screen.  It looks like a fall webworm, but then why isn't in its web? 

It looked like rain in the early afternoon but then the sun came back.  All three swallowtail species are around including one black with a lot of yellow on the wings.  The hummer ran off some finches that were already nervous about me.  One had perched on the hummer's feeder.  A rather handsome black and red roach was floating in the pool, definitely an outdoor species.  A female widow skimmer perched for a while. 

The sky to the West got very interesting toward evening with solar illumination coming through cloud gaps and lighting up haze.  


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