It’s time for another post with mostly photos. The rainy day brought a lot of sights, from a bird and insects I’d never seen before to animals dealing with water. That’s right, the title of this post isn’t an insensitive ableist phrase, I actually saw a cuckoo!
I knew we had them here, but I’d never seen a cuckoo before. It must have been recovering from the most recent downpour. I read that these birds are called storm birds, because they tend to sing after a storm. This one wasn’t singing.
The other fun part of today was enjoying the wet animals. Poor Fiona thought she was trapped in one of the pens until Apache walked over and showed her it wasn’t a lake.
Here are some other images from around the pens.
I found the dry area 
This will dry out fast 
I just stood out in the rain. 
That’s a damp pasture 
Scary clouds 
The cows and an egret friend 
Moody meadow 
There goes the rain
Here are my insect finds. most are new to me, but not the fire ants. They messed up my foot night before last.
Fire ants. They want to kill me. 
Clemens’ Grass tube worm moth 
Brown rove beetle 
Variegated fritillary 
Spotted orb weaver 
The other side of the orb weaver
I’ll close with more moody weather photos. It was a pretty interesting day after all.
The little pond, full and enlarged 
Still lots of dirt everywhere! Work in progress 
The ponds are full! Water is flowing 
The little spring is at left. 
Rain moving south 
Clouds and cows 
Rain on the horizon 
Giant raindrops 
Water coming calmly out of the dam 
Yellow nuts edge 
I put some plants in Lee’s pond
The Hermits' Rest 