Scorcher!

By 10 am it was miserable.  A female towhee came for breakfast.  The regulars showed up too, with the finches having aerial fights.  While driving around, we saw mockingbirds also having a midair dispute.  And the crows were having some kind of affair up in the pines.  The wrens are still ferrying food to the birdhouse.  A hummer came for lunch.  

The afternoon grew overcast with rumbling thunder and a temperature drop, but very little rain.  The severe weather warning was a dud but it chased me inside.  I saw a cardinal with no tail. A skink ran across the steps.

In the evening, I spent some time trying to photograph fireflies and was rewarded by the sight of a fox bringing supper home to excited cubs. It was way too dark but I tried to photograph them anyway.