Blue sky

The wild cherry looked foamy with flowers.  The dark azaleas were beginning to fade and the white bush was in full bloom.  The suet cage was empty!  Where did it all go? -- A block of suet in two days is not sustainable consumption.  Each bird had to check it out, some several times.  The brown thrashers scoured the ground beneath.  I saw a tiger swallowtail in the pink azalea bush. 

The potted strawberries were blooming and berries were starting to form.  I dealt with the pot of dead celosia and discovered a skink was napping inside.  It almost got squashed escaping.  The clematis had a flower and the crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) I bought two years ago at the Farmers Market put out its first flowers.  A patch of white clover was in bloom but I didn't see any bees. 

There was a lot of scurrying around the pool puddle and in the bushes.  A Carolina wren and a white throated sparrow hunted on the pool cover while a brown thrasher stayed under cover.  A bluebird perched on the topmost pine candle.  The female red bellied woodpecker sunbathed on a limb of the oak tree. Then she preened for a while.  Eventually she found the barkbutter balls.  Titmice were thick at the seed feeder.  

The cardinals were finally courting.  I glimpsed a warbler but I don't know which kind.  A white breasted nuthatch was the final visitor in search of suet.  Since the sky was clear, I took advantage to get photos of the full moon.