The spiders are spinning lots of webs. As I put up mist nets I'd stop and take photos of the webs. There were large webs stretched across walkways, and smaller ones nestled in plants looking like fluffy cocoons.
Last week and today I caught more hatch year birds. Unfortunately these birds do not go on the MAPS report as that protocol season is over. Today few birds went in the nets. However a flock of titmouse, chickadees and nuthatches are now regulars at the sunflower feeder. I put the feeder up a few days ago. Many of these birds are sporting jewellry. At least 2 of the nuthatches have color bands. I've id'd one (which then helpfully went into a net as a recapture); hope some photos I took through a window will confirm identity of others. The nuthatches do not linger at the feeder and usually crunch down on their legs and that hides the bands.
The vegetable garden continues to produce. The photograph shows what was picked this morning. We ripen the tomatoes inside. Bugs, splitting, and blossom end rot all provide competition for the fruit. There was a caterpillar crawling out of one today.
I planted pea and carrot seed today in a section of the garden cleared of weeds. The recent rain was a great assist to the weed pulling effort. Also have seedlings developing for transplant later.
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