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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