I couldn't stand being outside for very long in the morning because of the heat and humidity. A black swallowtail flitted erratically around the yard. Brown thrashers grew bolder with their desire for bark butter balls. A young one walked around the back of the pool.
Clouds drew in and lowered the heat a little. Bluebirds followed blue jays to the feeder. A female cardinal sought shade to eat her bark butter ball. Later a Carolina wren did the same. A female red bellied woodpecker inspected one of the dogwoods. An egret rested on a dock piling.
An ailanthus webworm moth (Atteva aurea) joined the bees and wasps on the mountain mint. A slaty skimmer used the perch nearby. A Japanese beetle chewed on a hibiscus flower.
Rain that was not predicted fell in the late afternoon but didn't amount to much. It trailed off leaving the air to reabsorb the rain that fell. An egret and a heron flew North toward mammatus clouds that bulged downward in round hemispheres.
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