Busy feeders

Titmice joined the usuals for sunflower seeds.  They were not well received, lots of shoving and pecking required acrobatics from the titmice and chickadees.  Meanwhile a male hummer stopped by briefly and two females almost shared.  At least, they didn't get into a chase.

One of the two hummers looks sooty while the other is very white on the throat and breast.  A nuthatch appeared at the feeder in the late morning.  Sulphurs, both lemon and orange, have been around, despite the wind.  Several young skinks explored various crannies.  This one is regrowing a lost tail.  A black swallowtail passed quickly, maybe a male?  A squirrel was doing somersaults in the mulch under the kitchen window. 

After lunch, Carolina wrens appeared.  One sang while perched on the gas hose of the grill and the other foraged under the pea vine.  A black swallowtail hung around this time.  No sign of the rescued palamedes. 

The predicted thunderstorm finally arrived around 6pm with a little lightning and a light rain. Right before the rain, a male hummer appeared.  The sharp photos all show his throat as black since there's no sun, but in one blurry shot light from somewhere lit up the red feathers.