Windy

Another morning meeting kept me from seeing anything till lunchtime.  The wind was very strong, thrashing the trees and blowing deTREEtus on me.  A brown headed nuthatch was busy with seeds.  The milkweed appeared ready to bloom any minute.  I saw an osprey circling.  A great blue skimmer dragonfly used one of the garden stakes but the wind battered at it and eventually it flew away.  A cardinal got in the nuthatch's way but the little bird did its ninja act.  Eventually the cardinal discovered he'd been flanked and forced the nuthatch to leave.  A minute later the cardinal was eating barkbutter balls and the nuthatch was back on the seed feeder.  

I found some more of the peculiar orange spheres that I identified as wolf's milky slime mold.  Wispy clouds turned pink at sunset.