Wet

Rain came and went all day long.  It was mostly gentle, but there was one deluge in the afternoon.  In between the showers there was sometimes sunshine.  Morning was quiet - an egret at the dam, a hummer at the feeder, a cardinal on the parsley.  Now that was odd. 

Soldier beetles mated on the dripping mint  A night heron landed beside the pool.  A great blue skimmer found the perching stick.  A drenched female cardinal tried to clean up in the dogwood. 

I caught a blue jay in the cedar.  The wrens were everywhere.   Later the night heron perched in the pine with too much vegetation screening it.  But down at the water's edge was a juvenile.  Its offspring?  The tide was quite high for just past first quarter moon.