Several times the sky looked like an approaching storm, but in between the sun was fierce. And a sprinkle around 7pm was all that actually happened. Yesterday, I saw the farm booth at the Central Library and bought veggies that I cooked today.
A house wren and some titmice came early, along with the feeder regulars. What the house wren was here for, I cannot guess since they don't eat seeds at all, unlike the Carolina wrens. A hummer rejected
the refilled feeder so I guess I did not get it clean. I heard a towhee
in the cherry tree and saw it fly away but it was just a blur. In the late afternoon, a white breasted nuthatch came for seeds while we sat close by. Egrets
and other waterfowl of uncertain identity avoided the dredge which moved
back into our line-of-sight.
A variety of dragonflies were on the prowl, but the only one that held still to be identified was a blue dasher. Similarly, the only butterfly I was certain about was a tiger swallowtail. The water was full of scarab beetles, but only a few ground beetles and a couple of sidewalk tiger beetles. I was too late to save a click beetle and a gorgeous metallic-green
Augochloropsis bee. Bumblebees and a few wasps enjoyed the lavender and the sunflowers. The tiny red Southern purple mint moth was back in the rosemary. Cicadas were beginning to buzz. I noticed that the crape myrtle was overrun with Japanese beetles. Fireflies were out again in the twilight.
A house wren and some titmice came early, along with the feeder regulars. What the house wren was here for, I cannot guess since they don't eat seeds at all, unlike the Carolina wrens. A hummer rejected
the refilled feeder so I guess I did not get it clean. I heard a towhee
in the cherry tree and saw it fly away but it was just a blur. In the late afternoon, a white breasted nuthatch came for seeds while we sat close by. Egrets
and other waterfowl of uncertain identity avoided the dredge which moved
back into our line-of-sight. 
A variety of dragonflies were on the prowl, but the only one that held still to be identified was a blue dasher. Similarly, the only butterfly I was certain about was a tiger swallowtail. The water was full of scarab beetles, but only a few ground beetles and a couple of sidewalk tiger beetles. I was too late to save a click beetle and a gorgeous metallic-green Augochloropsis bee. Bumblebees and a few wasps enjoyed the lavender and the sunflowers. The tiny red Southern purple mint moth was back in the rosemary. Cicadas were beginning to buzz. I noticed that the crape myrtle was overrun with Japanese beetles. Fireflies were out again in the twilight. 
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