A house wren visited at breakfast. A great blue skimmer awaited the little biters. The palamedes swallowtail stayed out of focus but a black swallowtail posed. Palamedes has a striped body, black has speckles. A katydid nymph was head down on a rose cane. A basilica spider built a lovely domed web.
There was just one frog but two skinks. I let the frog and a skinklet run off, but I made the adult skink pose - it was old enough to know better than to go swimming. I also rescued a green June bug. A spider with a pearly egg sac rescued herself. I found a cicada shell in the water that may have tempted the spider.
A night heron preened while resting on a piling. It had its wings dropped and spread the way they do when too hot. I found the outer skin of a monarch chrysalis, which I hope means a butterfly hatched out. I still could not figure out where the monarchs go to pupate. The tailless brown thrasher prospected for insects. A gray gill mushroom popped up in the grass. My offhand ID was some kind or Russula. I'm probably not qualified for the Mycoblitz.
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