Yes, it was shirtsleeve weather by mid day. The creek was placid and the air a bit misty at sunrise. A Carolina wren chose a suet breakfast. Somewhat later. the female pileated woodpecker was hungry for the same thing.
By lunch time,
common blue violets, Viola sororia, were blooming. So were oak trees. And a squirrel was up in the oak having fresh oak flowers for a late dinner. I was thinking that each flower eaten meant one less acorn. But I was wrong - the tassels are male flowers, so it doesn't matter. And normally female oak flowers require pollen from a different tree. Now I want to see what a female flower looks like.
A titmouse and a downy woodpecker were frustrated by my brief foray outdoors. A commotion in the leaf drift by the fence turned out to be two brown thrashers a-thrashing. A couple of polistes paper wasps were nibbling on the wooden bench. I could see six turtles on the lake logs.
Toward suppertime, the barkbutter cup became popular. The two brown thrashers were bumped from it by the male red bellied woodpecker. But they were soon back and the woodpecker moved on to the suet. A female bluebird watched curiously.
To cap off a bird-filled day, the male kingfisher settled in on one of the dock posts.
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