Showers

A Carolina wren was on the seed feeder at breakfast.  Molting left it looking pretty scruffy.  Hummers were back but before the day was over they rejected the juice.  Fresh tomorrow!  The molting cardinal hunkered down on the seed feeder perch, looking more like a pirate than a cardinal.  I picked what looked like a window between rain bands to swim.  Two showers rained on me in half an hour.  I evicted a frog and K scared it back into the water.  I also saved yet another six-spotted green tiger beetle, Cicindela sexguttata, with no spots. 

Bell flowers hung from the ground cherry plants but one under the window was stripped of leaves.  I need to look for the caterpillar that was responsible.  Some Southern purple mint moths rested on mountain mint leaves.  Only two caterpillars were visible today but they were a lot bigger.  And there was something under a leaf that looked like a small brown caterpillar, not a monarch.  I thought a little blob of dead flowers on the mountain mint might be a Camouflaged Looper, Synchlora aerata.  The blog was moving.  Wasps and bees couldn't stay away from the mountain mint.  A yellow crowned night heron perched on a dock piling.