The sky cleared around mid day. At lunch K noticed a very small skink. The bees and wasps came back to the mountain mint. An odd, yellow and black beetle joined them. At first I thought it was some kind of soldier beetle, but my best guess is that it was an elderberry borer Desmocerus palliatus. But I couldn't see the long antennae that is supposed to have. The Horse guard wasp was back.
A mockingbird scouted the suet but changed its mind. Bluebirds took over as the fledglings joined their mother on the suet. A blue jay poked the knothole on the dead oak limb.
Things that got away without a picture: a swallow flew right over me, A brown thrasher went to the feeder while I was on the water. A monarch butterfly grabbed a drink of mountain mint, but didn't pay any attention to the butterfly milkweed.
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