The hummers drank their feeder dry, but didn't like the fresh one we put out. While I was in the pool a brown thrasher got curious about the floating head and hopped around trying to get a better angle on me. In the evening, a mob of blue jays came for wild cherries.
A hairstreak and scoliid wasps enjoyed the mint, where spittlebug foam recently appeared. I also saw black and tiger swallowtails. Leafcutter bees moved to the butterfly weed.
Spindly-legged, thread-waisted wasps I think were Ammophila procera were obsessed with the mountain mint. A small black bee with a belt of yellow fur appeared to have a face full of pollen from the mountain mint.
Lots of blue dashers were on guard close to me. At the very top of the oak, a Halloween pennant kept watch. A slaty skimmer landed on the concrete. More dragonflies found dead twigs to perch on from the dogwood by the house down to the creek edge.
A robber fly also found a perch on the empty feeder outside my North window. A cross spider built an orb web outside my West window. In the pool I rescued a sidewalk tiger beetle and several cricket nymphs. A skink popped out of the retaining wall. They've been scarce ever since the cat caught one.
The sky had a split personality, blue to the East and menacing on the West. But the thunderstorm I could hear passed us by on the West. We needed some rain - everything was drooping. Dusk came early because of the clouds, and with it came the noise of illegal fireworks.
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