Wet

Rain was light and intermittent in the morning - Bonnie's moment of glory as a named storm was brief.  I saw an egret fly by.  The regulars - cardinals, house finches, and chickadees - came to breakfast.  A downy woodpecker hopped around the post, then gave up.  One or more hummers kept their feeder busy. 

At lunch, I saw a tiger swallowtail and some wasps.  A spider cleverly built its web under an outdoor table, out of the wet.  A skink ventured out.  Hummers kept coming.  One took exception to a young squirrel that was curious about the post the feeders hang from.  A titmouse got some seeds while the cardinals argued over the boundary between their territories.

Afterward, a yellow crowned night heron hunted crabs along the spartina.  A great crested flycatcher flew down to watch.

The rain got heavier toward 5pm.  All the movement in the trees seemed to be leaves dumping their load of rainwater.