Windy

Today continued the warm spell, and the sunshine interspersed with cumulus clouds.  At breakfast, I could see a heron on a dock downstream, with many tree limbs between us.  The wren was an early bird.  The mealworm dish was covered in dew. 

After lunch, a cabbage white paused to drink from the rosemary flowers.  A couple of ruddy ducks were barely visible downstream from the dam.  The sparrows were out in force, both song and white throat.  Two buzzards played on the wind, but why did they keep circling over our yard?  The warbler still wanted suet, but the oriole may have departed.  Downy and the female red bellied woodpeckers were after suet too.  Red was a very messy eater which made the sparrows happy.  Eventually titmice got a turn at the suet. 

Leaves popped out on the wild cherry.  And there are pink peach blossoms in the woodsy corner.  Sunset was gold rather than rosy. But there was an ominous darkness to the North.  Soon we began to see lightning.  However, the storm stayed North and swept across Cape Charles and out into the Atlantic.  Meanwhile the temperature dropped back to February expectations.