The dew was heavy when I got up but the temperature rose and the humidity dropped. A brown headed nuthatch, a bluebird, a blue jay, and a Carolina wren visited. I glimpsed egrets flying down the creek. The nuthatch argued with a titmouse. A hummer investigated the gladiolus buds and the feeder but didn't stay. A downy had some suet. Something dug a tunnel under the grass next to the patio. In the evening, an egret flew upstream.
During this morning's swim I saved an ant queen, a two-lined spittlebug, a May beetle, a largus bordered plant bug, and a bumblebee. Two bumblebees appeared to be clutching each other while drowning. Using an oak leaf, I fished them out and one revived. The spittlebug had a tiny ant gripping one of its legs which threw it off balance so it fell in again. I had never seen a
largus bug Largus succinctus before last year. Wasps and a cabbage white flitted around but I didn't see any other butterflies. A looper caterpillar drowned. The baby Argiope spiders continued to lurk under the mountain mint.
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