Rabbit

A pair of goldfinches came for breakfast but didn't find anything to their taste.  Bluebirds were easier to please.  The juvenile cardinal discovered barkbutter balls.  It also ate seeds.  A couple of Carolina wrens ate suet.  Curiously, low clouds flowed quickly out of the Northeast while higher cumulus slowly drifted East.  I wonder if that indicated vertical wind shear?

Both spiders seemed fine and I discovered another web over by the rose, though it appeared deserted.  The young one still had black-and-white striped legs while the adult had all black except the section closest to her body which was orange.  Unexpectedly, rain fell just before lunch and the moisture outlined the orb webs.  Afterward, a prince baskettail dragonfly hunted at treetop height

During lunch, the brown thrasher was back, still a raggedy mess.  A white breasted nuthatch developed an attitude and bullied the house finches instead or the other way around.  A wet crow prowled around.  A brown headed nuthatch was able to get past the house finches to the seeds.  Another was frustrated and ate a bit of suet instead.    A couple of downy woodpeckers came for suet but I didn't get a good look at either one.  Blue jays argued over the barkbutter balls.  Titmice managed to get some.  

A skink paused in front of the violets.  In the mid afternoon, a cottontail grazed on the slope above the shoreline.  That made me notice that the spartina had filled in thickly this summer.  A green heron perched on the back of the dock bench.  The only wildlife I found while swimming was a mosquito but when I put my hand down on a chair arm something stung me.