The house finch was totally over his parental duties. The fledgling vibrated and screamed "feed me" and dad snarled "get a job, kid." The male towhee was still feeding his fledgling. The wrens were busy at the entrance to their birdhouse, feeding nestlings, I think. I caught a bluebird at the entrance to its nestbox but didn't see what it had brought.
A downy woodpecker came for the bit of suet remaining in the cage. Later I saw it or another in the cherry. Hummers almost drank the feeder dry. A male goldfinch came to drink from the ant moat. I saw a Carolina wren I think was a fledgling, and a couple of blue jays, but didn't get photos. Even a titmouse showed up.
A bluebird was in the cherry tree along with the house finches and
woodpeckers. I glimpsed a female red bellied woodpecker on the cherry
trunk. Then the rain began and lasted about five minutes.
A tiny black bee worked on the portulaca. The two caterpillars had nearly run out of parsley. A black swallowtail appeared to lay eggs on the skeletal parsley. A jumping spider prowled on the door screen.
A silver spotted skipper, and later a duskywing, visited the mint. So did several great golden digger wasps and a multitude of smaller wasps. Soldier beetles seemed more into mating than feeding on the mint.
There were dragonflies perching both high and low. A Halloween pennant perched on top of the pine tree. Closer to the ground were blue dashers and a skimmer of some sort.
Clouds gathered and blew West during the afternoon but there were no more showers. The chaste tree was beginning to bloom. Well before twilight the amateurs were at their pyrotechnics.
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