Stifling

The heat plus humidity make it hard to breathe. The newspaper says yesterday was 61% humidity where last week was below 50% with lower temperatures. I assume that humidity works the same as water solutions where water at a higher temperature can hold more dissolved molecules.

Anyway, whether it's the heat or something else, the feeder was a riot scene earlier. A half dozen finches, several cardinals, chickadees and titmice all kept swooping in, hovering and flying off when they couldn't intimidate the perch sitters. Birds were perched all over the feeder hanger too. Now they have calmed down and a lone finch is sharing with a cardinal fledgling.

The sunflowers are still intact. This evening the goldfinch pair landed on them. It did not snap the flowers off, but I am wondering if that's what happened to the earlier ones.

It has not rained yet though it looks thunderous. Thermometers claim it hit 100 F. The Peruvian daffodil is blooming, as are the lantana and the crape myrtle.