Beautiful day

Cardinals and house finches were up early.  The hummer was too.  When I escorted the geese off the patio, wrens scolded me, or maybe they meant the geese.

I saw the male goldfinch at lunch. The blue flowers have taken over: iris, wood hyacinth, and now blue eyed grass. 

A tiger swallowtail again defeated my camera.  Bees and wasps were plentiful and a bee fly lurked in their wake. A dragonfly hunted without pause, making a photograph impossible. A swallowtail caterpillar was finally big enough to see on the rue.  I glimpsed a great crested flycatcher behind foliage and an eagle soaring.  I heard blue jays, a woodpecker, wrens, and many anonymous singers that the leaves hid.

The male goldfinch returned in the late afternoon and serenaded the house.  Then a Carolina wren prospected on the ground.  Sunset was saturated with orange.