The day was quite warm and lightly overcast. A healthy white throated sparrow foraged under the seed feeder. Chickadees, titmice, and downy woodpeckers came in a steady stream. A female bluebird found something of interest on the roof of the seed feeder. Eventually she decided she preferred suet.
Pine and yellow rumped warblers competed with the downy for suet. The azalea at the foot of the wild cherry started to get fall colors. It's the only one that does - the others just shed old leaves. A blue jay snatched a barkbutter ball but the camera decided I wanted the background in focus instead.
In the evening I noticed something dark on one of the pepper leaves. (The branch with the peppers broke off in the wind last week, so I was finishing its ripening in a jar of water in the house.) The dark thing was a moth with a dramatic gold zigzag. I released it outside.
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