Friday, July 17, 2015

Cloudy

The hummer paid a brief visit as did a house wren.  Goldfinches and titmice came back for more.  A chickadee looked into the sunflowers but mostly stuck to the feeder.  A dove and a squirrel foraged on the ground.  And a yellow crowned night heron perched on a dock piling. 

In the late morning while I was cooking, a hummer stayed for a nice long meal, trying each hole in the feeder, and scanning the skies for UFOs.  The very tiny skink caught my eye just as it slipped under the rosemary.  A brown thrasher shook the azaleas.  A palamedes swallowtail and an orange butterfly were again too fast for me but a dragonfly took up a perch.  The wrens were still using the birdhouse. 

Later, the same or another yellow crowned night heron stalked along the edge or the grass.  A little green heron preened on the dock.  A gray hairstreak shared the mint flowers with scoliid wasps.

It seems the bunny was not a good predictor: as I ate supper, a fox hunted along the far side of the pool.  


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