It was another scorcher so I swam in the morning. Floating in the water were a queen ant, a robber fly, a firefly, a woodlouse hunter spider, a largus bug, and many more ants, flies, little wasps, and mulch roaches. I thought the spider was a goner but when I next checked it had disappeared. I complained because there weren't any butterflies or dragonflies, but they appeared in the afternoon. I think I captured a wasp killing another insect, but it might have been mating.
A blue jay came for barkbutter balls and brown headed nuthatches for seeds. The sakaki was nearly finished blooming. A great crested flycatcher made a commotion chasing something through the oak leaves. A skink wanted to get behind my chair and made a detour through the grass. A female downy had a go at the suet. A pair of geese with three half-grown goslings paddled upstream while a fish jumped in the background.
A tiger swallowtail and a dark butterfly proved impossible to photograph. Wasps and bees were more cooperative. A very dark skipper visited the mountain mint. I could see insects going to the asters but I couldn't tell what they were. One might have been a Southern purple mint moth and another some kind of beetle. Prince baskettail dragonflies patrolled the hazy sky. A different dragonfly perched on a dead twig at the top of the wild cherry. And a Needham's skimmer used one of the perches.
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