Humid

The windows fogged and dripped.  But there wasn't much to see anyway.  Three blue jays flew into the oak.  The hummer went for flowers instead of the feeder, so K swapped it with fresh. 

Bu mid morning the bugs were out: butterflies and dragonflies, bees and wasps, spiders and flies. I saw a faded female pondhawk.  A robber fly was well camouflaged on a branch. A wasp threatened mating cabbage whites.  A black swallowtail found the herbs.  So did skippers.  A variegated fritillary laid eggs on violet leaves.  And a red spotted purple drank from the pool then sat on the edge and fanned itself.  A wolf spider walked on water.  A tiny jumping spider shared the window with larger cobweb spiders. 

In the late afternoon a skink peered into the birdbath.  A male slaty skimmer used the taller perch.  A goldfinch inspected the sunflowers.  A couple of brown thrashers met on the beautyberry.