Rain fell overnight but the sun had emerged by breakfast. Pollen coated the flat water in the creek. Nothing much happened while I read the paper. Crows gathered again and I think they disapproved of my new feeder arrangement. A red bellied woodpecker had no problem. The hickory buds opened.
A skink slipped through a crack before I was ready, but in a little while it emerged again. Bumblebees and paper wasps were busy. I saw a tiger and a black swallowtail and, of course, cabbage whites. The purple iris had three flowers. Some azalea buds had opened. The sky was hazy with additional cumulus clouds flowing by on a West wind that pushed the temperature over 80.
A sparrow kept its back to me so I don't know if it was a song sparrow or an immature white throat. A brown thrasher stayed behind vegetation. An egret showed the green skin around the beak that means it's ready to mate. It was fishing successfully.
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