A cardinal found one of the black swallowtail caterpillars in the rue. Apparently a diet of rue was no deterrent. A grackle visited but was too heavy for the feeder. A blue jay watched from the hackberry.
A skink climbed the retaining wall right behind a squirrel. A cloudless sulphur flitted across the yard without pausing. Hummer wars continued.
The monarch caterpillars I transferred to the butterfly milkweed were big enough to notice. Two wandering gliders (Pantala flavenscens) dangled from the gone-to-seed parsley.
I rescued a green June beetle with an unfortunate attraction to water. The usual wasps fed on the mountain mint. An adult skink lost its tail so recently its rear end was still unhealed. It coiled as though to protect or hide its injury.
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