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For some reason downy and pileated woodpeckers picked today to visit after weeks of absence.  The brown headed nuthatches stayed busy.  I missed a shot of a blue jay.  The thermometer read 94° in the early afternoon.  Dramatic clouds rolled in from the West.  I came inside when a few raindrops fell and thunder grumbled in the distance.  But no real rain fell and the sky cleared again.  However at dusk it had become overcast.  Fireflies were out. 

There are no photos of the critters I found in the pool because I was wary of the predicted thunderstorm and left the camera inside.  In the water I found one drowned looper caterpillar, too many drowned roaches, ants, two live spiders and more drowned, and one bullfrog.  I rescued a wasp, a wasp, a black ground beetle, an Asian ladybug, and a brown Oriental beetle.  The bullfrog rescued itself.  There were mosquitoes, but they weren't in the water.  The mushroom I saw yesterday was so withered and dried up I almost didn't find it again.  Two variegated fritillary butterflies danced around the milkweed but left before I could get the camera.  Small dark bees also fed on the milkweed.  An Ammophila wasp tried to threaten me away from the milkweed but gave up and flew off. There were buds on the New England aster.