The chickadees got interested in the sunflowers. The titmice stayed with the feeder, whenever they could get past the finches. A house finch tried the hummer juice! The male goldfinch came to work on the sunflowers. Young grackles tackled the cherry tree. Doves foraged on the ground. And then a fox dashed past pursuing a bird.
The afternoon was full of butterflies and dragonflies. I saw a black saddlebags patrolling and something greenish flying in tandam - mated. Later a female slaty and a Halloween pennant took perches. A couple of giant swallowtails flirted and tigers flitted around. A duskywing fed on the lantana. A hummer took an interest in the rosemary which was just starting to bloom again. It was not interested in the feeder, so we will refresh that. The blueberries have been amazingly productive this year. 
An egret and a heron fished the dam outfall. A cardinal began to eat budding acorns. The male goldfinch used a leaf stem to reach a drooping seed head but then didn't know where to hammer the seed open. A Carolina saddlebags zoomed around at eye level but finally perched for a moment. When it came back to perch again a slaty skimmer drove it off. Then another skimmer contested ownership of that perch. The temperature today was very pleasant, cooler and less humid. After dark, the crescent moon lighted from behind thin clouds that flowed from the West. Saturn was overhead in a gap in the clouds.
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