Saturday, June 13, 2026

Pileated woodpecker

Temperatures in the 80s were a relief.  A female pileated woodpecker visited and hopped on the patio.  They are not built for walking.  I wonder if it was the fledgling?  At lunch a mockingbird visited.  Afterward, I had a swim and evicted a few beetles and an indignant spider.  A tiger swallowtail flitted overhead.

Then I went off to help table at an event at the zoo.  I didn't visit the zoo's animals but watched an aerial ballet of dragonflies.  Crows gathered on the dead top of conifer, maybe a spruce.  As we left at twilight, a rabbit dashed across the walkway.  I saw some swifts picking up the insect patrol as the dragonflies retired.  But I was plagued with fleas or noseeums out in the grassy field where the tables were.  I had forgotten to spray myself before leaving home.  

 

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