The creek was like a mirror when I first got up, but it didn't last. Some clouds floated out of the Northeast. Goldfinches and titmice joined the regulars. Later the cherry was busy with all sorts of birds including one that turned out to be a squirrel. There was a young robin some that puzzled me turned out to be young starlings. 
The hummer had a hard time getting lunch in between finches. She moved on to the rosemary. Out front, the lantana hosted a silver spotted and a fiery skipper. Dragonflies used the perches.
A great crested flycatcher visited the cherry, whether for berries of bugs, I cannot tell. A wren took a little spa time in the mulch. A skink crossed the step. More dragonflies arrived, including a male widow skimmer and a yellow-sided skimmer. 
While I was in the pool I first heard, then saw, a red bellied woodpecker in the neighbors' yard. A brown thrasher was feeding at least two fledglings. In between berries, a fledgling kept basking or anting under the oak. It would flop down and let its head loll and eye go glassy. A Carolina wren visited the same spot. The sky was cloudless with a first quarter moon overhead till the fireflies came out.
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