Wet

I thought it was going to rain all day so I was too suspicious to trust the mid afternoon sunshine.  As a result I stayed inside and did not add to my collection of bug bites.  The pine warbler, however, was too hungry to be deterred by rain. He ate rain-mushed barkbutter and bobbed for floating mealworms.  The downy woodpecker came to see if watering the suet cage had grown another block of suet.  Alas, no, nor will it till cooler temperatures arrive.  

When the rain stopped, birds all showed up at once.   A white breasted nuthatch was frustrated because a cardinal got to the feeder first.  Then it was house finches.  A goldfinch watched from the top of the sunflower.  A mockingbird visited the dishes which I had replenished.