July 15 , 2005

It's getting dry around the slough, and the Milk Thistles are sending forth the next generation.


The big birds are still active in the rookery – the mating displays are over and now it's down to business, hunting food for the next generation back at home.

A chickadee gives us a good look at its chestnut back.

Here's that well-known parasite, dodder, now in bloom.

A minor photographic goal is to get a shot of a dragonfly in flight.
Here's my first, qualified, success.

Beetle battle: "This poppy ain't big enough for the both of us."

Another look at our old friend the Lined Shore Crab, this one in excellent color.

One more bug: A small (2 cm.) wasp forages among newly opened Anise flowers.