Baby Scrub Jay

At first I thought this fellow had a worm or a twig in his beak, but when I got my camera and looked at him up close he appeared to have a deformed beak. From his disheveled look and lack of blue plumage on his breast, he appears to be a baby.

I sat on the new deck for a pleasant half hour watching the monarch butterflies. There are ten or twelve of them dancing and flitting around the bamboo, but they are impossible to photograph. They just won't sit down.

Most of the day has been spent reading and catching up with all your journals…nearly there, I think.