Journal notes: 1 hour sitting on the porch drinking tea on July 24, 2020
- Bumblebees foraging on everything.
- Saw a bumblebee poop while foraging on the phlox!
- Honeybees foraging.
- Hummingbird foraging on zinnias 4 feet away from my chair.
- Native bees foraging on zinnias.
- Wasp getting water at little bird bath.
- Flock of Goldfinches eating bee balm and coneflower seeds.
- Four species of blazing star about to bloom.
- Rough legged hawk, we think, flying overhead.
- Black swallowtail laying eggs on the parsley and foraging on the phlox.
- Cabbage white and sulfur butterflies foraging on the flowers.
- Unidentified (of course!) small black and orange and white butterfly. Plus Another little black one. And a tiny orange and black speckled one.
- Twelve different species of native plants currently in-bloom.
- Monarch visiting the milkweed.
