Thursday, April 16, 2015

Clearing skies

Clouds moved off East.  The male towhee was very much in evidence yesterday and today.  I'm guessing he's feeding a brooding female.  A brown thrasher foraged in the grass and a cardinal found something to eat in the cherry tree.  There were two male cardinals around.  I glimpsed a male goldfinch as I was folding sheets.  The downy woodpeckers, yellow rumped warblers, and white throated sparrows were still here.  The starlings came back again.  Only mallards disturbed the creek.

At lunch time I discovered a female mallard with her bosom plopped over the pool coping.  A dragonfly buzzed the pool.  Then a five-lined skink with a very short tail posed on the side of the steps.  Clouds kept slowly passing East. 


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