A Carolina wren visited the feeder briefly. Goldfinches came, including two males, and a pair flew off fussing. Egrets waited by the dam outfall. K rehung the clean hummer feeder.
And the hummer wars have begun with much chasing and scolding. At least one liked the rosemary as much as the feeder. That one has a darker throat. Meanwhile, a brown thrasher was up in the cherry picking berries.
Butterflies and dragonflies were out. I saw a tiger swallowtail I think was laying eggs on the cherry, and a variegated fritillary. The usual blue dashers and slaty skimmers were joined by a yellow-sided skimmer.
I rescued a full grown skink from the pool. K gets credit for the photo. It shat in my hand in thanks. I found two drowned caterpillars but not much else. One looked like a small black swallowtail caterpillar while the other was larger, much longer and dark brown with a beige head. Of course, it is hard to know if the colors have been altered by the water.
As I ate supper, I saw some amazing things. First, a hummer arrived about the same time as a cardinal landed on the seed feeder. Well. The hummer hovered in front of the bemused cardinal and gave it the stink eye. Some what later the cardinal chased a dragonfly right up to the glass. The cardinal veered off but the dragonfly crashed. I tried to get a photo but I had to open the door because of the angle and the dragonfly took off. It looked like a 12-spotted skimmer Sunset was pretty with wispy pink clouds. The fireflies started up immediately.
A Carolina wren visited the feeder briefly. Goldfinches came, including two males, and a pair flew off fussing. Egrets waited by the dam outfall. K rehung the clean hummer feeder.
And the hummer wars have begun with much chasing and scolding. At least one liked the rosemary as much as the feeder. That one has a darker throat. Meanwhile, a brown thrasher was up in the cherry picking berries. 
Butterflies and dragonflies were out. I saw a tiger swallowtail I think was laying eggs on the cherry, and a variegated fritillary. The usual blue dashers and slaty skimmers were joined by a yellow-sided skimmer.
I rescued a full grown skink from the pool. K gets credit for the photo. It shat in my hand in thanks. I found two drowned caterpillars but not much else. One looked like a small black swallowtail caterpillar while the other was larger, much longer and dark brown with a beige head. Of course, it is hard to know if the colors have been altered by the water.
As I ate supper, I saw some amazing things. First, a hummer arrived about the same time as a cardinal landed on the seed feeder. Well. The hummer hovered in front of the bemused cardinal and gave it the stink eye. Some what later the cardinal chased a dragonfly right up to the glass. The cardinal veered off but the dragonfly crashed. I tried to get a photo but I had to open the door because of the angle and the dragonfly took off. It looked like a 12-spotted skimmer Sunset was pretty with wispy pink clouds. The fireflies started up immediately.
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