The early bird was a blue jay, closely followed by a mockingbird. The mockingbird got very huffy because the blue jays were hogging the barkbutter balls. Huffy meant the bird puffed up its back feathers and tried to look much bigger. The jays didn't care. A Carolina wren went to the seed feeder. White throats disappeared into the cinquefoil that seems to grow an inch a day.
We will soon have many roses. I counted seven buds on the red rose and maybe a dozen on the yellow. Speaking of yellow, there was a flower on the yellow flag iris, also on the blue iris. Money plants in the shade were still blooming but those in the sun had gone to seed. Also, the azaleas were past their peak.
Bluebirds showed up at lunch. I saw and even photographed a butterfly flying over the beautyberry bush, but I couldn't be sure of its identity. I think it was a monarch. A skink ventured out into the sunshine when the afternoon temperature got up into the 70s.
Late in the day, a brown headed nuthatch decided to get some seeds. Then the female pileated arrived to enjoy the fresh block of suet. The cardinals tried to share the feeder but together they weighed too much. The male pileated stopped by very briefly and didn't even have any suet.
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