Sunny again

A downy woodpecker landed on the suet cage and then flew off.  A starling, however, worked on the last of the suet, apparently just pecking bits off which it and its mate then ate off the ground.  A dove was down there too.  Cardinals visited the sunflower seeds and bees visited the rosemary.  

There was lots of birdsong around lunchtime but none were visible.  I did see a black swallowtail, a cabbage white, and a dusky orange butterfly that was probably some kind of fritillary.  Wasps were everywhere. A starling kept visiting the pole after I took the empty suet feeder down.

Clouds flowed out of the West in the early evening, along with strong gusts of wind.  They were solid to the North and only scattered in the South -- and then they cleared.