Still hot and dry

An egret stood on the dock bench.  I rescued a cricket, a beetle, another green leafhopper, and (I think) a bristletail.  A dragonfly monitored the proceedings.  We ate both figs and blueberries from our yard.  I don't remember their seasons overlapping before. 

At lunch, a male towhee landed on the wire holding the mealworm dish but was startled off by a Carolina wren.  Hummers were hungry and continued to check out the gladiolus.

Toward evening the sun descended into a smear of stratus clouds.  Dragonflies zipped around at suppertime.  A titmouse came for seeds.  The wrens cleaned out their dish.  The hummer(s) seemed off-put by something at their feeder, but  eventually settled in for a drink.  It may have been a wasp.  A dove just stood on the first step until suddenly two squirrels raced past.  The dove took off like a dowager surprised by urchins running under her skirts.  A bit later, I noticed one of the pool-brush poles was rolling toward the water.  It went right in and out came a dripping squirrel.