Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Hot and humid

A heron soared through the clouds.  I'm not sure why I'm not seeing more feeder activity.  A female slaty skimmer is patrolling the pool.  A sulphur flitted through the yard.  I think I saw a squirrel plunge to the ground in the neighbor's yard.  It made an awful thud, but I can't see through the bushes to tell if there is a corpse.  A goldfinch perched at the very top of the sweet gum.  They like the seeds in the gumballs. 

A male hummer visited and drank his fill. No others showed up to drive him away. By lunch time, the sky hazed over. 

After lunch, I picked about a dozen azalea caterpillars off the plant by the window before the threat of rain drove me inside.  It's been thundering and now drops are falling. 


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