Sunday, July 30, 2017

Glorious day!I

It was cool (70s) and a bit breezy with intense sunshine in a sky so clear it was purple rather than blue. Humidity was only a bad memory.   Titmice again mobbed the seed feeder.  Hummers were happy to get fresh juice. 

When I went to pick figs, though most were rotting from the rain, I saw a common whitetail dragonfly that evaded the camera.  A green russula mushroom popped up under the fig tree.  Wasps, including a hornet and a cicada killer, feasted on the fermenting figs.  Some could not fly straight afterward and banged into the wall.  I saw a green lacewing lying in wait on a fig leaf.  A squirrel also came for figs. 

A half dozen yellow Genista broom moth caterpillars sheltered in a web while they ate the wild indigo in the front yard. Not far away, a jumping spider lurked on another indigo leaf.  Around on the West side of the house, leaf cutter bees had scalloped the redbud's leaves. 

As usual, a blue dasher guarded the pool. There were other dragonflies around, but they didn't pose.  A hackberry emperor butterfly did, very nicely. Wind and rain had raised toe water level in the pool and filled it with pine needles and other debris.  I caught a frog hanging out by the skimmer, but it refused to pose.  And I rescued tiger, click, scarab, and common ground beetles, but not much else.  The tide was very high for a first quarter moon.  An egret monitored the dam outfall.


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