Dark clouds and bright sun

A variable sort of day.  I didn't have much time in the morning and can only report a towhee.  Just before lunch, a female goldfinch worked on the sunflower.  And, of course, the regulars were out.  We went out for lunch and on the pavement there was a dead Junebug that had turned the copper of a new penny.

In the afternoon, I saw titmice, a white breasted nuthatch, and an adolescent male hummingbird.  A skinny skink saw me and ran for its life.  A black swallowtail butterfly egged the rue while a blue dasher dragonfly patrolled the air from the perch I put out.

Later the sky cleared.  A female towhee and a female hummer showed up.  The moon has passed the first quarter.