Sauna

The day started wet and then the sky went from overcast to big piles of cumulus streaming out of the Southwest and finished with a thin white cloud layer in the twilight.  The temperature worked its way into the 80s and the humidity was not far behind,  I cleared out a mess of sprouting poison ivy, but left the big ones alone.

Carolina wrens worked on the bark butter while the feeder hanger still dripped.  Our ad hoc rain gauge was brim full.  A red bellied woodpecker struggled with the shape of the feeder.  I hope to hang some suet soon.  A blue jay, and bluebirds soon found the fresh bark butter balls.  The wretched feral cat acted like it owned the backyard. 

A red headed skink was on the West wall of the steps when a striped skink ran across the top step to the East wall. The striped skink waved its tail, then held it sideways and scuttled forward.  It certainly looked like "come hither" to me.  The red headed skink came part way but lost sight of the striped one and then lost interest. 

My distant view of the lake revealed a lineup of ten turtles on two logs, watched over by a cormorant.  Honeybees were back at the rue. I was just bemoaning the lack of dragonflies when one appeared.  It has been a bad Spring for both dragonflies and butterflies.  I found glass snails in the mulch.  In the evening I hoped for swallows or bats but got the bullfrog calling instead.