Warmer

Again, I missed too much of another lovely day.  A female downy woodpecker hesitated for a long time before snatching a bark butter ball.  I glimpsed a dark butterfly, probably a red spotted purple.  

When I got outside, a mockingbird cussed me out, but kept carefully hidden in the dogwoods.  But then a careless brown thrasher popped out of the azalea right in front of me.  It pounced on something but I couldn't see what.  I found another slime mold.  This one was the common "dog vomit" variety.  a shapeless fungus that fooled me into thinking it was a slime mold.