How time flies—fitting for this past month. Maybe it’s the sunshine, warmer weather, and longer days that make time seem to move slowly and quickly at once. Long, slow days of reading on the porch, jolted by the sharp contrast of tomorrow being July 1.

June’s backyard birding highlights have been the hummingbirds, a Western Tanager, a Black-headed Grosbeak, a Black Phoebe, and a Cedar Waxwing.