There were hummers at breakfast, and an egret down at the dam outfall. Afterward, I sat on the front patio to read. Two female hummingbirds (or one twice) and a male came to the feeder, but balked when they saw me. An adult skink emerged from behind the vine planter and tiptoed past me. I could see insects zipping around but couldn't tell if they were dragonflies or wasps. During lunch, a couple of snout butterflies did an aerial dance or fight.
Heading to the pool, I surprised a skink on the steps. Dragonflies were perched around. A brown thrasher hunted on the ground by the fence. I rescued a tiny spider with a white chevron on its abdomen. I also saved a lot of beetles and gave one green tiger a ride in an oak gall.
A few dogwood leaves were beginning to turn. A female cardinal abandoned herself to anting with an expression of stupefied bliss. Then the male showed up and recalled her to duty.
A hummer gave a chickadee a piece of her mind for getting too close to her feeder. A hummer chased another over the roof. In the evening a hummer kept guzzling despite a cardinal pair on the seed feeder.
I went out after dark to listen to the insects and look at the moon and planets.
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