The hibiscus, a gladiola, and a rose are all different reds. A squirrel was sitting in the portulaca pot this morning. The juvenile rabbit came by, distinctly bigger than last week. The house finches seem to increase in number every time I look. Young ones sit on the feeder demanding to have food poked into their gullets. Later, they pretended they were pecking up seeds on the patio but I don't think they've quite got the hang of it.An interesting assortment of bugs were swimming in the pool: a honeybee, wasps, a tiny metallic-blue Halictidae bee, flies, lacewings, many beetles including several brown "june bugs"(Phyllophaga) and a green "june bug" (Cotinis nitida), several black ground beetles and a tiger beetle, fireflies, mulch roaches, ants... There's an art to rescuing a wasp. Dragonflies are busy. There's a rust-colored species that stays down by the creek and a mating pair paused on the dock.
Fish are jumping in the creek. Are they trying to catch bugs, breathe air, or escape predators? I saw one moon jelly pulsing along. Geese, laughing gulls, egrets, and a little green heron went by.
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