It got shirtsleeve warm, 78° K said. So I tottered outdoors and sat, frustrating the woodpeckers. Carolina wrens, blue jays, a mockingbird, and the myrtle warbler also perched around the edges of the yard. The mockingbird ate a nandina berry.
The red bellied woodpecker poked at twigs and appeared to eat some oak flowers, talking to herself the whole time about the inconvenience of having me too close to the suet. The downy woodpeckers were bolder about eating suet even though I was close. Their wings were quite loud.
A squirrel was definitely eating fresh oak blossoms. The blue jays seemed to be running a bait-and-switch on me while one raided the bark butter balls.
The purple iris was blooming. Forsythia has been in flower all week. And there were buds on the coral honeysuckle! The rusty infection on the red cedar popped out again. Pollen left bathtub rings on the pool cover.
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