At breakfast, a Carolina wren was eager to get started on the suet. In addition to turning cherry and dogwood leaves, I saw red dogwood berries. The weather ups and downs have confused some plants, I think. The sky today was a clear, strong blue and the sun felt intense. A white breasted nuthatch sampled the suet before returning to the seeds. A brown headed nuthatch followed on the seed feeder. A goldfinch watched but only had some water. The wren returned with a friend.
I saw three butterflies, a monarch, a tiger swallowtail, and what I thought was a red spotted purple. A fig beetle was rafting on pine needles and a mama spider on a sinking leaf so I rescued them. I saw something zoom in and out of the sunlight that might have been a cicada killer. The mountain mint stopped blooming so there were few bees or wasps. The butterfly milkweed, on the other hand, was lush with no sign of caterpillars or other insects, and only one small seedpod.
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