Busy birds

A lady hummer visited.  Two male goldfinches held glaring contests over the sunflowers.  The female showed up later.  A male house finch watched the goldfinches from the feeder. And a juvenile finch tried to figure out what part of the sunflower was edible, after annoying its father for handouts.  A downy woodpecker also attempted to gather sunflower seeds!  Titmice slipped onto the feeder whenever the regulars permitted.  A dove wandered around the patio and the juvenile cardinal tested everything on it for edibility.  The house wrens stayed busy bring food to the birdhouse.  Clouds out of the West blew past swiftly. 

In the late morning I saw a skink, a blue dasher dragonfly, and a black swallowtail.  During lunch another, very tiny skink darted amongst the rosemary twigs.  A Needham's (I think) skimmer paused on a perch.  A tiger swallowtail and a fritillary of some sort passed through.  The feeder was very full of house finches, and fledglings begged from the hangers. 

While I was in the pool a tiny golden brown damsel fly landed beside me.  A cicada killer buzzed by.  There was a goldfinch chase.  A hummer, a squirrel, and a goldfinch ignored me as I dripped dry.  I picked some wild cherries - not bad.

At suppertime, the bunny peeked out under a chair.  The house finch fed his fledglings while a goldfinch drank from the hummer feeder.  The hummer visited too.