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90s were predicted for the next three days.  The titmice were up early feeding fledglings.  The regulars were hungry too.  K rehung the clean hummer feeder.  A house wren landed on the sunflower feeder roof then flew off to the house roof.

A blue dasher used one of the dragonfly perches at lunchtime. Menacing clouds passed through without doing anything.  Later, that or another blue dasher took up a post above the barrel where we dump the pool skimmer, which does attract bugs.  Smart dragonfly!

There was a spider with way too much facility in running on water in the pool.  Huge ants, some brown and some black, that I think were from mating swarms were in and around the pool.  According to a post on HRWE, these females are called virgin gynes.   The black ones were identified as Camponotus pennsylvanicus.  Some were missing their abdomens.  I suspect birds were catching them on emergence and biting off the good bit.  I think I saw a titmouse do just that.  I finally caught the house wren removing the nestlings' poop.

Clouds in the West cast dramatic rays of shadow. Sunset was faintly pink.  Then the fireflies came out.