The temperature was back up in the 80s but the wind still blew the heat away. The sun shone despite the thin cloud cover. I saw the first monarch butterfly of the year, but I didn't get a picture. Of course there were cabbage whites flitting around as well. The pileated woodpecker was back and this time I made a movie!
I saw the pretty red and yellow paper wasp, Polistes exclamans. It had hold of one of the first instar black swallowtail caterpillars. Later I saw a darker wasp hunting caterpillars on the rue. A ladybird beetle rafted on a dogwood leaf. Probably the wind dumped them both in the water. I got photos of a snout butterfly but they weren't very good.
The Carolina wren was still playing hard-to-see. The brown thrashers were coy too. And even the blue jays seemed determined to frustrate me. A broad-headed skink, Plestiodon laticep, moved too fast for me, but finally paused for one photo. It had a fine, long tail that looked original.
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