Sunday, September 13, 2015

Rain and sun

Dark walls of cloud passed over and rain fell mid morning.  An egret stood on a neighbor's dock.  Brown thrashers poked around under the red cedar.  Doves came closer.  A squirrel with a green pecan appeared to be thinking about hiding it in the trash can.  During one of the brief periods of sun, a red spotted purple basked on the mulch beside the birdbath. 

A female goldfinch got a dring from the hummer feeder but the hummers themselves turned up their beaks.  So K took it down to clean.  It does not pay to put very much juice in - better it goes dry than funky.  The red spotted purple laid eggs on cherry leaves.  An orange butterfly (monarch?) passed through quickly.  A duskywing fed on the rosemary.  Finally by mid afternoon the sky seemed ready to stay clear.


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