Another day in the upper 80s with a pleasant breeze, and now the pool is open. It was slim pickin's for birds in the morning because I hadn't put anything out and the suet was almost gone. The mockingbirds and bluebirds were not pleased. The female pileated was determined to get the last morsel of suet. It was a stretch because the nubbin was lodged on the far side of the suet cage.
The coral honeysuckle was ready and waiting for a hummingbird. It looked to me like this year we will get a good crop of blueberries - if the rain gods are well disposed. I found a black swallowtail caterpillar on the rue. Tiger swallowtails eluded the camera. Later I saw a female cardinal in the rue, possibly hunting caterpillars.
A blue jay and a bluebird finally got some barkbutter balls. But the female pileated discovered that there was no suet left. (Tomorrow I will hang the last block.) She gleaned some fallen crumbs. And she raised her crest to express her feelings. Or maybe because a crow showed up?
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