Skink

I got up early and hustled off to a meeting in Norfolk.  Gulls were circling over downtown but I couldn't tell what species.  Anyway, I didn't observe much until lunch.  A Carolina wren tackled the suet which was almost gone.  A bluebird grabbed seeds.  Then a white breasted nuthatch worked on the suet nubbin.  

The evening primrose patch began to flower.  A yellow jacket queen investigated the splitting timber edging the step.  That would not be a good location for a nest.  I thought I saw a dragonfly but the only critter in the photo was a tiny snout butterfly.  Cabbage whites danced together in the air, but whether courting or fighting, I have no idea.  

In the late afternoon or early evening a very reg-faced skink moseyed along the step wall.  It seemed to pace back and forth before finally going off into the mountain mint.