Breakfast was enlivened by blue jays and a great crested flycatcher. An osprey made a catch on the creek but there was too much vegetation in the way for a picture. A hummer flew right up to the window as though looking at me.
I didn't see butterflies till lunch and then first a black swallowtail, then a monarch. The swallowtail wanted an energy boost from the milkweed but the monarch chased it back to the rue. But little black bees felt the same and kept trying to drive the monarch away. Finally the monarch tangled with a hummer which chased it out of sight.
Finally, I got to use the pool again. Not much was floating, or in the skimmer, but I did rescue a cricket, a beetle, and a couple of spiders. A mama wolf on the ladder refused my offer. A slaty skimmer took up the perch by the squirrel sculpture and a saddlebags cruised over the pool. An amberwing rewsted in the grass. Something kept whistling up in the trees and something hawkish flew over as I was getting out, but from a different direction than the whistles. An egret paced through the shallows. Clouds thickened and thinned throughout the afternoon.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5F-O_19lSI
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