Woodpeckers showed up first. An egret fished in what looked like a strong current below the dam. Rain fell overnight, but not that much. I saw a junco foraging for fallen suet, but it got away.
I went out to plant seeds and discovered it was much hotter than predicted. The cherry that grew from a pit was blossoming. Maybe this year I'll get a cherry? The rusty disease reappeared on the red cedar. The coral honeysuckle was loaded with flowers. Among the money plants, now flowering, I found several rosettes of Small-flower Hawk's-Beard Crepis pulchra, I think. It's non-native and not very "pulchra" to my eyes. The dogwood by the pool steps made puzzle-boxes of its petals again.
The turtle log was full under the hot sun. Bees and wasps were busy. I saw a cabbage white and a sulphur. And I managed to catch a jumping spider with the camera.
The crescent moon was accompanied by Venus and a couple of cormorants.
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