A blue jay and a brown thrasher discussed the empty state of the barkbutter ball dish. A male pine warbler went for suet instead. Then a female bluebird took over. The brown headed nuthatches seemed to be everywhere because they liked all the different foods. Of course a downy woodpecker had to assert ownership.
The blue jays came back after I refilled the dish. I think they may have been fledglings. I found a defunct cicada floating. An osprey alerted me with its musical cries. I also heard and glimpsed a swallow. Honeybees were the most common insect on the mountain mint but I also saw a great black wasp, lots of golden digger wasps and scoliid wasps, bumble, carpenter, leafcutter, and other bees.
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