Breakfast was overcast and we didn't have sunshine till about 10am. Humidity brought out the little biters and the dragonflies followed. They appeared to be flowing around and over the house in a loop. I think at least some may have been darners. Other dragonflies perched and darted. I believe those were great blue skimmers, slaty skimmers, and bar winged skimmers. Wasps were also hunting but I think they wanted larger, meatier prey to feed their larva. The only butterfly was the ever-present cabbage white. A bumblebee fed on the rue. The creek was placid in the morning but after lunch, the wind picked up.
As I watched the dragonflies I also saw a couple of swallows hunting bugs higher in the air. A gorgeous male hummer came to the feeder as I was sitting beside it. He seemed very affronted but the juice had gone off anyway. I replaced it and K spotted his return. Brown headed nuthatches ignored me. A titmouse was hungry and wary, but hunger won and it got some food. Cardinals and bluebirds were too wary too eat. A boater scared off a heron. Something flew high over the trees, probably a buzzard. The horse nettle bloomed and, finally, some of the milkweed buds opened..As the afternoon went on, the sky grew more hazy and bigger clouds passed. By 4pm it was mostly overcast again. A Carolina wren came for supper.
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