A female pileated woodpecker came for suet for breakfast. Blue jays came for barkbutter crumbs and one ate seeds too. Unlike the squirrels, the bird outwitted the feeder counterweight. The mockingbird pair showed up again, as did bluebirds. Clouds floated on a milky haze.
The day grew considerably warmer than predicted. A dragonfly I think was a female common whitetail landed on a step right in front of a white throated sparrow. The sparrow looked more startled than predatory but the dragonfly didn't wait around and I didn't get a photo. A queen yellow jacket investigated the azalea beside me but moved on. I saw other wasps as well. Several butterflies visited, a palamedes and a tiger swallowtail, a small brown butterfly that might have been a snout, and the ubiquitous cabbage white. A little black beetle wandered on the concrete.
Carolina wrens came at mid day and tried to share the suet. A blue tailed skink wouldn't stay put for a photo. Later in the afternoon the clouds thickened. First the female, then the male pileated returned. The female tried hanging from the suet cage instead of reaching from the post. That made more suet fall on her belly and thus the ground.
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