Yesterday's thunderstorm brought little water but did moderate the temperature. A Carolina wren inspected the cinquefoil for anything tasty. Mockingbirds continued to harvest wild cherries. A section of the oldest dogwood appeared to be dying. It looked fine all through Spring and early Summer. Another section died a few years ago. The mountain mint was stressed by the drought but seems to be recovering.
The pool yielded nothing but scarab beetles, roaches, and itty-bitty wasps/bees/ants. A fresh load of cherries were sunk on the bottom. I did evict one spider. A duskywing joined the bees ans wasps on the mountain mint. One funny, little bee did its best to intimidate me. I found the Argiope which was quite cleverly camouflaged as a stem. The orchard spider was in the same place as before but the light was wrong to see the web.
A female hummer visited that feeder. Then a pine warbler considered the hanging dishes. The brown thrasher returned for more cherries. A white breasted nuthatch was frustrated by a house finch. Then when it finally got on the feeder perch, a chickadee landed on top of it and the finch attacked them both.
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