Monday, August 20, 2018

Wet

A thunderstorm woke me at 5:30am.  It dumped a lot of water in the next couple of hours. The rest of the morning was dry but mostly cloudy.  Three egrets and a heron clustered at the dam outfall. 

I saw dragonflies with yellow bodies at the physical therapy parking lot.  An amberwing popped up out of the grass as I pulled in our driveway.  A black swallowtail was egging in the back yard and a slaty skimmer was on a perch.  A couple of hummers chased through the yard. 

After lunch a great crested flycatcher appeared.  A fiery skipper worked its way across the patch of portulaca.  A bit later a much larger silver spotted skimmer posed beautifully, but I'd left the camera indoors fearing rain.  After much grumbling of thunder, a brief shower passed through around 4pm. 


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