Saturday, August 10, 2013

Nuthatch returns

Birds were busy at breakfast, till I got the camera.  Grrrr.  A hummer and a brown headed nuthatch joined the usual crowd.  A cardinal kept poking the nuthatch who was undeterred.  It perched on the hummer feeder and the post while trying to sneak onto the feeder.   Meanwhile, the hummer was distressed by all the carrying on in its vicinity.  It is still breezy today, cloudy too. 
 
I glimpsed a blue dragonfly and the same tattered black swallowtail from yesterday.  The grill inspector wren visited. The squirrel with the white spot showed up today - I hadn't seen it since last month. A slaty skimmer posed on one of the perches I put out. 

Around 4pm a big thunderstorm rolled through.  In its wake, titmice, chickadees, and finches showed up hungry.  There are lots of parents feeding fledglings - cardinals, chickadees, and finches.  I suspect the titmice are also this year's.  The rain left the air saturated and not all that cooler. 

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