The sun shone on wet surfaces. The blueberry plants were dripping. A Carolina wren visited the feeder early. At least two and I think more titmice came for seeds. A female house finch hunkered down and drove off chickadees and titmice till the cardinals showed up. Another mud wasp obsessed over the glass door and a yellow kneed wasp landed on the screen. K hung fresh hummer juice.
A buzzard circled at lunch. The hummer appeared pleased with the fresh juice. A brown thrasher was busy all afternoon all over the yard, as though it had started another family in the camellia. A yellow crowned night heron rested on the dock. A white breasted nuthatch scurried around a dogwood. A male goldfinch checked out the progress of the sunflowers while a dove poked around underneath. House wrens sang and scolded and investigated the pool skimmings.
I rescued two June bugs and saw a small gray tiger beetle hot-footing it on the concrete. An immature male widow skimmer took up post by the steps while a black saddlebags patrolled overhead. Female widow skimmers hung out in the bushes. Earlier, a blue dasher perched on another pole, and later I saw a twelve-spotted skimmer. A tiger swallowtail made a few passes through the yard. A painted (or American) lady turned up its proboscis at the roses. I saw a hairstreak or something like it on the chaste tree flowers. Bees and a few wasps enjoyed the sunflowers, except when they landed on the same one. A large blue-tailed skink showed up on the patio.
At first the clouds were coming from the South, then lower clouds began to come in from the East. Late in the afternoon, a bit of rainbow appeared high in the West in advance of thick cloud cover. I think it must have been a sort of mist because no rain fell out of that blue sky. Rain did begin after sunset.
The sun shone on wet surfaces. The blueberry plants were dripping. A Carolina wren visited the feeder early. At least two and I think more titmice came for seeds. A female house finch hunkered down and drove off chickadees and titmice till the cardinals showed up. Another mud wasp obsessed over the glass door and a yellow kneed wasp landed on the screen. K hung fresh hummer juice. 
A buzzard circled at lunch. The hummer appeared pleased with the fresh juice. A brown thrasher was busy all afternoon all over the yard, as though it had started another family in the camellia. A yellow crowned night heron rested on the dock. A white breasted nuthatch scurried around a dogwood. A male goldfinch checked out the progress of the sunflowers while a dove poked around underneath. House wrens sang and scolded and investigated the pool skimmings. 
At first the clouds were coming from the South, then lower clouds began to come in from the East. Late in the afternoon, a bit of rainbow appeared high in the West in advance of thick cloud cover. I think it must have been a sort of mist because no rain fell out of that blue sky. Rain did begin after sunset.
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