A Carolina wren was up early. An orange daylily opened. Dark clouds passed by looking full of rain, but none fell. I thought I saw a bunny but it was a squirrel in an odd pose. Out front, the lantana started to bloom. White lilies, orange daylilies, and pink rain lilies put out flowers. A strawberry plant popped up beside the dry stream bed. A slaty skimmer used a perch outside my window.
Bluebirds were busy so I thought they might still be feeding offspring. A variegated fritillary fed on the butterfly milkweed. Every so often it remembered that it needed to move around to confuse predators, but soon it was back at the milkweed. The wind was much harsher than predicted and hard on small flying critters. While cutting back the cinquefoil, I found some more wolf's milk slime mold. I cannot imagine how it got that name.
K hung more suet. While pruning I surprised a blue jay. An odd wasp-like flier wandered on the window. It might have been an earwig. A brown headed nuthatch came late to the seeds. A couple of chickadees considered the dish feeders. My impression was that one was a parent and the other a fledgling. The bird certainly seemed clueless but eventually discovered the food.
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