Rainy equinox

Cardinals, chickadees, and titmice were hungry for breakfast.  One cardinal kept poking any other bird that tried to land on the feeder.  Everything is dripping and a slug wandered across the top of the door.

A little after noon, a chilly North wind swept away the cloud cover.   The song sparrow foraged under the peavine. A buzzard circled under the dissipating clouds. A skink ran across the patio and the sparrow ventured out, albeit under a chair.  A dark butterfly is busy around the cherry, probably a purple. 

The clouds have sneaked back from the South and it is windy and chilly.  A hummer stopped to feed.  Finches finally showed up, but mostly chickadees. I think I saw a brown thrasher. The squirrel with the white spot passed through. A female cardinal was munching on beauty berries and a squirrel on dogwood berries.