Through the window

All I could do was watch from indoors.  Much like yesterday, it was sunny and breezy.  Blue jays and hummingbirds came for food. So did the trio of regulars, including house finches.  The cardinals were still dating.  The male flew at the window, more like he wanted in than an attack on his reflection.  He did, however, chase another across the yard earlier.

I glimpsed a titmouse at the feeder.  A crow came for bark butter balls but spooked, maybe it saw me?  Doves scurried around the lower patio. A wren investigated the birdhouse. 

An egret fished below the dam and an osprey landed in the pine tree.  Unfortunately the hackberry is now tall enough to obscure the osprey's preferred perch. Lots of wasps were nectaring.  I glimpsed a butterfly or two, not well enough to identify.  I think the cold wet Spring was tough on large insects.  The bolting parsley was cloaked in tiny orb webs.

In the late afternoon a pair of goldfinches visited.  She wanted a drink of water, but not from the big ant moat.  Only the little one built into the hummer feeder would do.  He just watched.  Neither wanted any sunflower seeds.  Snooty vegans!