Morning was wet so I didn't put out more BBBs, so no birds. Water was higher in the ant moat showing overnight rain. The white breasted nuthatch lurked behind the downspout and refused to come get a seed. Finally I decided to put out one of the little tubs of bark butter. When I got home, a downy woodpecker visited the bark butter, but it spooked. A bluebird followed. In the afternoon, a couple of titmice visited.
Intermittent sun and heat lured the skinks out. One was very nervous about a squirrel. A house finch appeared to be having hiccups, or hacking up a hairball, or choking?
A squirrel tried to break-and-enter the seed feeder, but got no joy. I saw lots of bees and wasps on the rue, a soldier beetle and more bees and ants on the parsley, but only a cabbage white butterfly and an unidentified dragonfly in the air. Two swallows made a couple of passes overhead hunting bugs. The wind picked up and by mid afternoon it was raining.
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