A white breasted nuthatch showed up after breakfast. The canna decided to try another blossom. I found a big swallowtail caterpillar on the gone-to-seed parsley, but no sign of the monarch caterpillar, so I hope there is a chrysalis somewhere. I blew another shot at a great golden digger wasp. In addition to all the beetles that I fished out of the water, there was an insect I didn't recognize that looked midway between a beetle and a wasp. The mountain mint was full of many kinds of bees.
A four spotted pennant rode the topmost twig of the wild cherry. Something denuded all the highest branches on the wild cherry. I suspect tiger swallowtail caterpillars. I saw an orange fritillary butterfly that appeared to be laying eggs on violet leaves. A black butterfly showed no interest in either parsley or rue so I wondered if it was a dark tiger swallowtail or a red spotted purple. A fiery skipper popped around the mountain mint.
Toward evening, a green heron landed on a post in the creek. It didn't stay long, but I was grateful to have seen it. Great egrets were also in flight. It had been a very hot day and was still in the 90s at supper.
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