Early grackles

They tried to fool the feeder counterweight by perching on the side. I think I saw a pair of towhees - robin-like with flashes of white. Chickadees took over the feeder after the grackles gave up. The rabbit just went by.

At lunch, a hummingbird discovered the feeder I put out yesterday. We're still attracting widow skimmer dragonflies. And the male goldfinch was again pecking at the sunflowers. It's another hot day.

The hummingbird appears to be a female or a juvenile male and appears to like what I cooked up. The bill is amazingly long. As we ate supper outside, it flew up to about three feet of us and eyeballed each of us in turn. I guess we pass.