Sunday, August 3, 2025

Still windy

A bluebird wanted a barkbutter ball.  The female pileated wanted suet.  Later, when I was sitting outside, she stayed up in the oak.  I saw a hummer check out the fresh feeder but then it kept going.  Maybe the canna flowers looked tastier.  

K told me the Argiope that was minding the peppers relocated to our front door.  The other one that was watching the lantana moved around more to the front.  I couldn't find the spider I disturbed yesterday but the two in the windows were still in their same spots.   However, their webs were full of debris.  

A black swallowtail drank milkweed nectar.  A thread-waisted wasp landed on the rose.  A skipper I didn't recognize rested on a morning glory leaf.  Then I saw a peculiar wasp on another leaf.  A dragonfly perched atop the camellia.  

I cleared more tree trash out of the water and rescued a mama spider and her spiderlings.  The temperature got up to 80° but the wind peeled the warmth off my skin and then clouds blew in.  I surprised the common whitetail when I got out of the pool and he high-tailed it.  A skink crossed the top step.  


 

 

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