There was a flurry of wrens at breakfast, but they were too fast for me. At the doctor's office a handsome English sparrow proclaimed his territory from the corner of the roof. When we arrived home, a widow skimmer was guarding the lantana. A bluebird swooshed down from the roof and then kept watch on us from the dogwood. None of this did I manage to photograph. But, in the back yard, a yellow crowned night heron stalked the pool.
More dragonflies perched along the retaining wall. A dragonfly I
think was a four spotted skimmer perched on the pine tree. A twelve
spotted skimmer flew over it. A black swallowtail fluttered around the caterpillars on the parsley. A
great golden digger wasp visited the mint and drew my eye to something
lurking under a leaf. I think it was a crab spider. A small black wasp struggled with a meal
as big as itself.
An egret waited by the dam outfall. A blue jay discovered the bark butter dish was empty. The hummers needed a refill too. A skink ran across the steps and into a crevice. The night heron reappeared under the bulkhead in the afternoon.
Toward evening a brilliant male hummer stopped to feed but rushed off almost immediately. One or possibly two large birds of prey landed in a neighbor's pine that was screened from view by the oak. Clouds had covered the sky during the afternoon but they broke up in the North at sunset.
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