Sunshine returns

K saw a blue jay on the feeder, but I missed it.  The house wren is in fine voice this morning.  I saw a lot of dragonflies down on the lower patio and around the shrubbery.   One had a black body and another, bigger had a white-powdered blue abdomen.  Others were too fast for any detail.  A cabbage butterfly was out as well.  And the usual feeder birds.  It is a gorgeous final day of the Merrie Month of May.

Dragonflies came around all day long.  In the late afternoon I got to watch fathers at work - house finch and towhee. The towhee, however, stashed his kid in the shade of an azalea so I couldn't get a decent photo. 

At supper time the towhee was forging around the birdbath.  After it took off, a brown thrasher started tossing the same mulch around.  We are overdue for fresh pine bark.  Sunset was very orange.