I heard the rain in the night but it ended long before morning which was humid, but not wet. Something disturbed the creek surface right along the shore, but I could not see anything but ripples. Mushrooms popped up in the grass. A hummer needed her energy drink.
At lunch, I watched a blue tailed skink go around a loop of garden hose only to find itself inside another loop. It crawled over the scary hose and escaped under the rosemary. There were at least two female hummers and one was dominant. The other was too nervous to perch on the feeder. A black swallowtail egging the rue seemed the same size as the hummer.
A female blue dasher guarded our front patio, and a striped bee pollinated the buttercups. I rescued a couple of fireflies from the water. One appeared to have an ant clamped on a foreleg. Between the rain and the lawn mowing, the water was full of drowned roaches. There were also spiders that were quite lively.
Down in the creek fish jumped high out of the water. The brown thrasher serenaded again. I glimpsed an osprey and a male hummer. The short tailed squirrel found a peanut I'd dropped by accident in the birdbath. He was certain there must be more treats in the water and paddled all around. An egret and a little green heron fished at the dam outfall.
Clouds boiled out of the West in the late afternoon and rain arrived a little before 6pm. It lasted about half an hour, then cleared and all the titmice rushed to get supper for their fledglings. But then more clouds came from the NW and brought an early dusk and thunderstorms.
I heard the rain in the night but it ended long before morning which was humid, but not wet. Something disturbed the creek surface right along the shore, but I could not see anything but ripples. Mushrooms popped up in the grass. A hummer needed her energy drink. 
At lunch, I watched a blue tailed skink go around a loop of garden hose only to find itself inside another loop. It crawled over the scary hose and escaped under the rosemary. There were at least two female hummers and one was dominant. The other was too nervous to perch on the feeder. A black swallowtail egging the rue seemed the same size as the hummer. 
A female blue dasher guarded our front patio, and a striped bee pollinated the buttercups. I rescued a couple of fireflies from the water. One appeared to have an ant clamped on a foreleg. Between the rain and the lawn mowing, the water was full of drowned roaches. There were also spiders that were quite lively.
Down in the creek fish jumped high out of the water. The brown thrasher serenaded again. I glimpsed an osprey and a male hummer. The short tailed squirrel found a peanut I'd dropped by accident in the birdbath. He was certain there must be more treats in the water and paddled all around. An egret and a little green heron fished at the dam outfall. 
Clouds boiled out of the West in the late afternoon and rain arrived a little before 6pm. It lasted about half an hour, then cleared and all the titmice rushed to get supper for their fledglings. But then more clouds came from the NW and brought an early dusk and thunderstorms.
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