A blue jay came for brunch. I swam in the morning because a thunderstorm was predicted for the afternoon. A bee or something stung me because it had climbed up on my suit and I didn't realize it was there. I didn't rescue it or anything else, though a spider was walking around on the surface tension. A long-tailed bird that I think was a mockingbird checked out the wild cherries. At lease three Carolina wrens checked out me as I floated in the shade. They kept hopping around in the red cedar so I couldn't be sure if there were more than three.
When I got out, I found a black beetle with yellow markings on the mountain mint that I've seen in other years, but I couldn't remember what it was. No wonder, I had identified it as
Macrosiagon dimidata. Not a memorable name. A variegated fritillary made the rounds. A blue dasher and a great blue skimmer perched, but they didn't stick around. Impressive clouds in the afternoon spat out about seven drops of rain.
A hummer went to the feeder but then flew around the corner, so maybe the sugar water went off in the heat. Another blue jay visited. A Carolina wren pecked at the suet. A tiger swallowtail feasted on the butterfly milkweed. I suspect it was newly emerged and very hungry. The
Argiope started pumping its web and then ran up out of sight briefly. I guess it caught something. The day never got as hot as the NWS heat warning suggested, but it was humid. The thunderstorm finally arrived about 6:30pm and was still growling hours later.
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