The sky was thickly hazed and pale. A pair of goldfinches came for a drink from the ant moat. (An ant photobombed.) A dark butterfly, possibly a dark morph tiger swallowtail, flitted around the cherry but later I saw a black swallowtail on the rue, so maybe not. Also flitting about was that small, pale butterfly again. I saw a red admiral as I was shelling peas.
I saved one wasp and a dozen beetles from the water. They were all black ground beetles except for one spotless ladybird. That finished the camera battery. As I was coming up the steps to get a fresh battery, I surprised a blue tailed skink chasing a moth. The skink reared up its full three inches but the moth escaped. It would have made a wonderful photo.
At supper, a squirrel nearly fell into the pool trying to get a drink. Brown headed nuthatches made repeated visits to the seed feeder but they were too fast for me.
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