No more suet

Bluebirds checked out the bark butter balls in the early morning.  Then the cat came back. 

At lunch a turkey vulture flew low across the yard, and a few minutes later flew back. A tiger swallowtail also flitted across.  We saw a skink cross the step.  Later I went outside and startled another skink.  I glimpsed a brownish-orange butterfly. 

A blue jay stayed far from me in the neighbor's yard.  Wasps, bees and yellow jacket queens worked hard.  Honeybees liked the white azalea.  Dragonflies zipped past me but didn't perch.  A fragile forktail damselfly was more obliging.  Flies explored various spots. 

As we ate supper, a pine warbler kept checking to see if the suet would reappear.  A blue jay was bold enough to look around the patio.