In the late morning I decided to pick blueberries. The rain had revived them and I got nearly two pints, but many were mushy so those went into jam. I saw some sort of bug zipping between trees. An osprey sailed overhead. Then a tiger swallowtail landed on a dogwood leaf in the sun. It's had a rough life - there were nips out of its wings and one tail was missing.
After lunch, brown headed nuthatches arrived. So did downy woodpeckers. A blue dasher kept an eye on things while I attended Zoom meetings. Only one turtle soaked up sun warmth.
When I finally got in the pool, the water was still high and cool. I had hoped the sun would have more effect. A spider mother-to-be took fright at me and dashed across the water clutching her pearl full of eggs. I had to rescue her before she got sucked into the skimmer. I also rescued a sidewalk tiger beetle, a little brown click beetle, and a big green June beetle. Then, in the deep end, I found a young skink swimming for dear life. So I carried it back to the shallows and took some pictures. I saw a brown thrasher, but I had my hands full.
After I got out and dripped for a while, I spied a leaf in the oak that wasn't a leaf. It was the hummer that can't find the feeder. A blue jay checked out the knothole next to the woodpecker holes, the same spot the nuthatch investigated earlier. Meanwhile, K had picked figs because rain was in the forecast. Bees were very busy with the mountain mint but wasps were scarce.
I sat outside in the twilight and saw a bat! There was no moon as the
waning crescent will rise in the early morning, and haze obscured the
stars. There weren't any fireflies either, just crickets stridulating.
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