Still cool

The temperature at this end of July is like Fall.  Strange times.  It's bright and sunny and I suspect the cool weather won't last.  A male goldfinch visited the hummer feeder for a drink from the rainwater well that's supposed to keep bugs out of the hummer juice.  Then a hummer came.  It clucked softly on arrival which alerted me.  It looked rumpled and sooty.

At lunch, a slaty skimmer was using one of my perches.  Two hummers chased each other all over.  The male goldfinch came back and investigated the rotten sunflowers. The sky got quite cloudy.

Toward evening, a male towhee and a brown thrasher hunted for food.  The sky cleared.  I heard a woodpecker and a blue jay.  A dragonfly with spotted wings cruised over the yard.