Today was much like yesterday though I wasn't outside as long. I saw actual dragonflies zipping over the puddle on the pool cover. Of course that means they were seeing mosquitoes. In fact, I caught a slow one trying to get a meal on my arm. I saw a cabbage white and a yellow swallowtail when my hands were full. An earwig crossed my path paying me no attention. A big bumblebee circled me slowly but I still never got a photo. It disappeared under leaf litter.
And an insect landed on a narcissus flower but paid no attention to nectar or pollen. I think it was lurking to ambush some other bug. At first I thought it was a lacewing but the body was humped like a robber fly and it had feathery antennae like a midge.
Pelicans were back in the morning, fishing successfully. So was the egret, though it caught many small fish instead of the frying pan size the pelicans eat.
A brown thrasher and a mockingbird begrudged my resting beside the barkbutter balls. The mockingbird defaulted to suet. The brown thrasher flew away. Warblers were around but on the whole, I did not see many birds. Maybe they were busy catching insects.
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