4 August 2024
Fresh outside sights were flora, bugs and the play of sunshine on water. Those are few issues observed final week or even previous.
Water beads made tiny lenses on leaves on 23 July. Since then its been too sizzling for condensation.
Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) and teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) are in bloom.
Bugs are proud of our sizzling climate. On 28 July sycamore tussock moths (Halysidota harrisii) dangled via silk threads as they diminished themselves from the sycamore timber. The one method to {photograph} one was once to attend till he landed.
Zabulon skippers (Lon zabulon) were simple to search out. A few of them glance ragged.
We discovered a couple of greenhouse millipedes (Oxidus gracilis) who stored strolling as they mated. Two million legs in a single picture?
And on 29 July I used to be shocked to peer seven not unusual mergansers (Mergus merganser) at Duck Hole. They made arrow shapes at the river’s mirrored image as they swam. (The 7th one is diving.) All however one in every of them regarded feminine; they have been in eclipse and/or molting.
