Breezy blue

A beautiful day, so where are the birds?  One white throated sparrow is poking around the birdbath.  Cormorants and geese have flown past on whatever business they think is so important.  A white domestic duck escorted two mallard couples upstream.  Some squirrels have bounced around the yard.  I saw a tiny grasshopper nymph on the azalea when I went to look for the trashline orb weaver spider that was there earlier in the year.  No sign of it now. 

Late afternoon: some white streaky clouds and, of course, cormorants.  Cardinals came for supper along with white throats.  The clouds moved off East at sunset, so no color, then when the sky had gone silver, smoky stripes of thin cloud rolled in from the West.