Foggy windows held a surprise: a slaty skimmer dragonfly was hanging on the screen. But my photos were fogged too. The sun is up and a bumblebee is crawling into the morning glories. The squirrel went by with another mouthful of pecans.
Lots of butterflies are around. I saw a palamedes and a tiger swallowtail, a buckeye, a monarch, and a red spotted purple laying eggs on the cherry. I disassembled the contents of the birdhouse - lots of feathers along with the sticks.
Chasing butterflies, I came upon an
alutacea bird grasshopper in the cherry. I never saw one before. It was huge. I suspect it is one of the buzz-makers that doesn't sound like a cicada. The butterfly that I was chasing turns out to be a
snout butterfly. A juvenile night heron perched on the fish-cleaning sink on the dock. I found one of the thread waist wasps in the pool and had to rescue it twice. If it fell in a third time I don't want to know.
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