Blue jays and hummers were early again. The creek shone with reflected sunlight. A bumblebee visited the sunflower. The sky was very blue, the air warm, and the breeze light.
I rescued a young skink, or rather, it swam up to me and demanded my aid. And I evicted two frogs. After some searching I located the two monarch caterpillars, each underneath a leaf. Two dark butterflies danced or dueled, then flew in separate directions. I'm fairly certain the nearer one was a palamedes swallowtail. A new-to-me butterfly hid behind vegetation. I only saw it because I was tracking a weevil.
I thought I saw a strange bird on the dock but it was a pair of mallards. Then I realized that above them was a kingfisher. My day for seeing a surprise while focused on something else.
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