There was a light overcast in the morning and a breeze that made it quite pleasant. Little brown click beetles were beginning to show up in the water. Blue jays showed up everywhere. A murder of crows was in full cry over something they pursued from tree to tree. The blue jays followed but a mockingbird just watched.
The black and greenish-white banded wasp on the mountain mint seemed to match the photos of a sand wasp, Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus. I had thought it might be a bee. There have been far more great golden digger wasps this year than in previous summers. I don't know if it's the mountain mint or whatever resulted in so few butterflies. Speaking of which, there was a cloudless sulphur and later an orange butterfly.
I saw a couple of skinks but got no photos. Hummers visited including one male. Male woodpeckers came for bark butter balls, both a downy and a red belly.
A four spotted pennant used a bamboo perch while a Halloween pennant flew from the highest twig of the hackberry. Later a tattered slaty skimmer rested on a bamboo stake.
The parent brown thrasher had the fledglings down by the creek and was apparently teaching them to hunt mud crabs. I caught a swallow in flight.
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