July was too dry and hot, and August has been too wet. Birds, even hummers, fed in the rain, but insects mostly disappeared. The brown headed nuthatch was back. So were the Carolina wrens and titmice.
Something left evidence of a blue crab meal on the dock. At least seven inches of rain had filled the fisherman's sink, not counting what flowed out through the debris in the drain.
There were two monarch caterpillars and a lot of aphids on the milkweed by the beautyberry but I could not find the one I put on the butterfly milkweed.
High tide reflected the moon phase as much as the rainfall, but the National Weather Service put out flood warnings. At supper, in the rain hummers kept coming. A brown thrasher pecked at the bark butter. The light went quickly under the overcast.
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