Blue sky and low humidity three weeks from the solstice meant a lot of UV got through the atmosphere. I took care to move in and out of shade. Blue jays came for breakfast. While I was in the pool, I saw a male bluebird feeding a fledgling, but
the bird I photographed looked more like a house finch. I guess I
tracked the wrong bird. A mockingbird visited at lunch.
I rescued several spiders, beetles, sweat bees, and a small gilded moth from drowning. I think the spiders were male wolf spiders. The black beetles were probably some species of Scarites ground beetle. The scarab was bronze-flecked brown. Several cabbage whites flitted around and one appeared to be egging nearly every plant. Wasps were busy as always.
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