The ragamuffin pine warbler was back. The many varieties of bees and wasps returned to the mountain mint as did a tattered duskywing. Blue dashers and a female slaty skimmer found perches while other dragonflies flew too fast for identification. Twelve spotted skimmers patrolled the air at treetop height. A sizable caterpillar munched bolted parsley under the maple tree. I coaxed the unidentified bug onto my finger for a closer look. I'm still thinking beetle, but...
Seven mallards snoozed together beside the creek. The males were in eclipse so they all looked pretty drab. A yellow crowned night heron pretended to be a statue atop one of the posts on the new dock. Something (methane?) made bubbled that broke the surface of the creek. It looked like tiny underwater volcanoes. The clouds that moved in during the afternoon finally began to drip around 8:30pm.
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