Friday, April 20, 2018

Chilly wind

A blue jay was displeased that I ate my breakfast before serving his, or hers.  Downy woodpeckers were satisfied with suet.  Then the starlings came.  When I chased one off, it would perch in a tree and watch me.  It became a contest to see who would get bored first.  A pair of geese wanted to use the pool puddle but K escorted them back to the creek. 

A very ragged looking warbler came for lunch.  It was shedding to make way for summer plumage.  A cardinal ejected a pair of finches from the seed feeder. 

A thin crescent of moon rose in the afternoon sky.  The a black swallowtail fought the wind to land on a mint, not the nearby parsley.  After it moved I was trying to locate it again, and discovered a skink basking in the sunlight.  A big bluebottle fly watched me water the portulaca I planted the other day. The moon appeared in my West window around 10:30pm. 


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