Hazy

The sky was blue but not crisp and the day was warm but not as hot as yesterday, with a gusty breeze.  The geese started us off.  There were two families and the pair with two small goslings was accompanied by a Muscovy duck.  Dragonflies were everywhere.  I saw a few butterflies, mainly cabbage, but a small blue and a colorful one that was probably an American lady. 

Around mid morning a white breasted nuthatch began coming to the feeder.  I was never ready for it and it did not linger so I only got one photo, and that of its back.  Skinks came out at lunch time.  A Carolina wren stopped in at the mealworm dish.  A great crested flycatcher lurked in the sakaki.  And a male blue dasher took up post on the garden stake. 

Then we discovered a swamp darner with a broken wing at the front door.  A female goldfinch got a drink from the hummer feeder but the hummer turned up her beak at it.  So much for the Audubon seal of approval. A yellow crowned night heron walked across the dock.

A female blue dasher replaced the male on the stake.  It was obelisking.  A swallow passed over, also after flying insects.  An emerald female pondhawk got away twice.  Wasps and bees were ubiquitous as well.  A black and gray bee may have been a solitary leaf-cutter.  I saw a wasp fly into the birdhouse but I didn't see it come out. 

At supper, we had a Carolina wren again, the regulars, and under the cedar a brown thrasher.