Bubbles rose in the creek shallows, whether methane or some critter I've no idea. I caught the male bluebird in a tree. He had been after something in the grass.
Honeybees, bumblebees, wasps, and syrphid flies crowded around the rue. The parsley also had syrphid flies and leatherwing soldier beetles. A red bellied woodpecker made its querulous warble which alerted me to look for it up in the oak.
I found a large white slime mold under the purple witch hazel in the front yard. After reading up on this strange life form, I think it is a tapioca slime mold Brefeldia maxima.
A pine warble showed up for bark butter, the first I'd seen since winter. A female hummer found the juice acceptable.
The late afternoon rain brought out slugs. I found one in the feeder eating the soggy remains of bark butter balls, another crawling over a parsley flower head, and another inside a day lily flower. Others were just eating leaves. Also on the parsley was a tiny orange caterpillar pretending to be a dead stem.
The bullfrog was quite loud today, morning and evening. K thinks there's a frog under the pool cover, but I doubt it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were decaying, drowned skinks, but how would a frog stay alive? I suspect the bullfrog discovered how to use the pool as an amplifier.
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