Everything looks rain washed and sharp edged. The rabbit child was on the patio early, sampling the grass plugs in the flats. Two squirrels were trying to get seed from the feeder. One was very persistent, and even tried walking upside down under the feeder. When it gave up, the molting cardinal arrived. The finches got a bit between the others.The temperature is lovely with the breeze but it seems to be discouraging flying insects. Wasps are out but few dragonflies or butterflies. A black swallowtail is all. I haven't seen a tiger swallowtail for weeks - I wonder if the loss of the trees is why.
In the pool there was a frog with a green face and brown on brown freckles. Green Frog (Rana clamitans) is my guess. A small butterfly in the Lycaenidae Family (blues, coppers, hairstreaks) spent time on the rosemary leaves. Could it have been laying eggs? This tiem a book was more help - it's a Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) and it's not picky about food plants.
All day finches and cardinals came to the feeder, but with evening, chickadees showed up. The male goldfinch made a brief appearance off in the remaining oak tree and two doves pecked up fallen seeds on the steps. One dove kept making little dashes at the other.
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