Overnight rain

Everything was soaked and dripping but the sky was clear.  This is supposed to be the last day of summer heat before a return to spring temperatures. 

Titmice visited the feeder along with the regulars and a white breasted nuthatch.  I was on the phone when the nuthatch showed up and couldn't take a photo.  A hummer found its feeder satisfactory.  This was after a couple of squirrels chasing around knocked all the water out of the center well.  A squirrel scrubbed its face - maybe it got sticky from the feeder.

At lunch, a brown and gold butterfly, probably a palamedes swallowtail, flitted over the pool.  I glimpsed a dragonfly as well.  The wrens were still busy nesting and singing.  It was really hot. 

In the afternoon, thunderheads built up to the SW.  At twilight lightning flashed and rain started.  When I got home, the glass back door was covered in slugs.