Carolina wrens cleaned the dish feeder. Hummers needed a lot of fuel. They checked out the flowers as well as the feeder. Titmice wanted seeds and more seeds.
At lunch, a fresh-looking palamedes swallowtail enjoyed the butterfly milkweed. But according to Bug Guide, the red bay and sassafras that palamedes caterpillars need is endangered by an invasive beetle that spreads a fungus wilt.
The wind from the Northeast was cold and gusty. It pushed the Bay back up the creeks. High tide nearly covered the dock in the afternoon. A juvenile night heron seemed puzzled by the high water.
A nasty, cold, thin rain fell as I tried to clean detritus from the water. One hummer took to sitting on the seed feeder hanger to guard the hummer feeder. The little brown mantis still haunted the rose bush. The hibiscus was still blooming.
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