I could see a brown headed nuthatch and a bluebird but all the camera could see was rain. A cardinal went a-courting but the female made it very clear she was not in the mood. Around 9:30am, we began to have moments of sunshine and the day warmed more than the last several. By lunch, heavy clouds floated across the blue sky. The creek was flat and shiny. A monarch and a skipper feasted on butterfly milkweed. I finally found a spear of buds on the gladiolus.
Blue dasher dragonflies perched on rose twigs and wasps hunted through vegetation. Clouds thickened in the afternoon and the wind grew stronger. The nuthatch and bluebirds returned. A red bellied woodpecker found the suet. The NWS issued a tornado watch for the evening but it didn't even rain.
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