It started out a pleasant Saturday morning on the porch, with blessings by the doubles. It ended up a scorcher, but that also means full sunlight on my favorite subjects. Enjoy the variety of our Saturday from the porch.
Our first double blessing came with the twin fawns with Mom in the meadow beyond the pond.
Surveying the scene, I realized the Red-shouldered Hawk was about 20 feet overhead, and I thought I heard him licking his chops as he gazed at the group below.
Then a few clicks to the right and down, the Yellow-crowned Night Heron was at the edge of the pond, looking for his own breakfast.
Not long after that appearance, the male Painted Bunting showed up at the old church feeder.
As soon as I spied him, his twin was on the scene, and immediately came to the globe feeder closest to the porch.
Needless to say, this caused quite a bit of excitement on the porch.
And they took their sweet time, allowing me to shoot up all the capacity available on the photo chip.
Later in the day, a female Black-chinned guarding the feeders.
She spied my new location for the porch feeder, re-positioned to allow more direct light photos.
There was a lot of hummer activity, and she was checking the overhead.
We also doubled up on the butterflies today, with the Tiger Swallowtail joining the Gulf Fritillery enjoying the purple cone flowers and zinnias.
This view shows that this guy was operating with quite a handicap, a large chunk of his lower right wing was missing.
In spite of missing part of his wing, he seemed to navigate quite handily.
A few parting shots at the end of the day; hummers going for all the offerings in the garden.
Closing out with our Black-chinned that has the perennial bad hair day.
(Maybe he's a teen-ager!)
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