Sprinkles flirted with us all day and it was much cooler. Before the showers started, K picked blueberries and I gathered figs. A Carolina wren showed up early, then a female bluebird. She was closely observed by a fledgling as she ate suet. The wren and a titmouse tried to share the suet, but I think that made it swing too much. Then a brown headed nuthatch went after the suet, followed by a downy woodpecker. The pine warbler was back for more. And a female red bellied woodpecker succumbed to the lure of suet.
A male ruby throat looked for the hummer feeder where it used to be then gave up. Later a female found it.
Honeybees thronged the mountain mint but some of the natives stayed away. I saw bumble and carpenter and leafcutter bees, scoliid wasps and digger wasps. The Argiope spider seemed to be doing well between the hibiscus and the rue. A basilica spider was nearby. The fungus by the oak tree was massive.
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