Buckeye

I found the Argiope again, closer to the azalea and not visible from indoors.  At lunch, a buckeye fed on the mountain mint.  So did an orange skipper and many bees and wasps.   When I went swimming, storm clouds gathered in the Southwest while the sun blazed and blue sky covered the North and East.  I saved some scarab beetles and a woodlouse hunter, but was too late for an infant skink, alas.  Dragonflies perched at different heights.  A tiger swallowtail danced over the mountain mint. 

Meanwhile, a night heron landed in the pine tree below the pool.  It was silhouetted against the sky but I believe it was a juvenile yellow crowned night heron.  A female hummer avoided me and the feeder when I first came outside, then while I was in the water I saw it return.  Brown headed nuthatches didn't care about my presence, but a finch asserted its place in the pecking order and sent a nuthatch flying.  A goldfinch got a drink.