A great blue heron swooped in and landed on the dock bench as I was coming into the kitchen. Today, the creek is ruffled, not reflective at dawn. Nuthatches, finches, and cardinals visited the feeder while white throated sparrows and Carolina wrens joined squirrels on the ground. The birdhouse has attracted a possible tenant!
Some dogwood blossoms have opened. Violets and vetch are blooming. The fried egg narcissus is beginning to bloom but the early yellow daffodils are done. The sky is not a clear blue this morning but more like someone started to erase it and left white areas.
A flock of small gray birds moved around in the bushes. After looking at numerous photos that caught different details, I think they were
blue headed vireos migrating through. They have a very definite eye ring, a bluish head, a white belly and a bit of white on the wings, and they are about the right size. The Backyard Birdcount group on Facebook corrected me. It was a
blue-gray gnatcatcher.
Meanwhile, cumulus clouds moved in and created drama. An osprey circled. It is very warm. I saw several cabbage butterflies during the course of the day and one tiger swallowtail. By evening the clouds were gone and sunset was just a golden sky.
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