Today followed the same pattern of a nice morning clouding up by lunch time. The hummers stayed agitated by all the other birds wanting seeds. Two black swallowtails egged everything. A tiger swallowtail flitted through. And a skipper fed on the portulaca. I glimpsed an unidentified orange butterfly. A strange fly peered through the window at me.
A pileated woodpecker flew over after lunch. Blue jays and doves arrived just after that. A house finch with a naked belly begged, though it had been feeding itself for some time. A monarch wanted the milkweed all to itself but the swallowtails kept interfering.
Late in the afternoon the sky cleared somewhat. I saw a mockingbird but I was on the phone at the time. I think I even saw a blue jay chase the mockingbird.
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