There was no hibiscus flower today but there was a bud. The aster was about finished blooming. The day was still very hot. A very large bird with dark wings and yellow feet swooped across the yard so fast that those were the only details that registered on my brain. My first thought was a heron, but it was too dark and the only wading bird with yellow feet that I know of is a snowy egret. So now my guess is a young eagle.
In the water, I rescued a bunch of beetles but was too late for a wheelbug nymph and a robber fly. A mama spider I fished out of the skimmer jumped back in. The second time I was not gentle and her babies ran in every direction. Speaking of spiders, the infant Argiope disappeared. While swimming I saw a monarch descend upon the butterfly milkweed. Later a black swallowtail wandered from bush to tree around the yard, perhaps wondering why there was no parsley this year. A duskywing skipper nectared on the mountain mint.
A dragonfly watched from the top of the cherry tree. It was silhouetted so all I can say is that it had unmarked wings. Wasps and bees worked on the mountain mint. I was particularly happy to see the first great golden digger wasp of the season.
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