Last night roughly 40 Chimney Swifts were flying over 11th Street, a nice sight!

Dragons and Damsels

On the 21st and the 23rd there was a dragonfly in the yard that I’m almost certain is a teneral Blue Dasher, but one feature perplexes me: a shimmery, red cast in the wing in some light.

I’m too new at dragonflies to make the kind of knee-jerk identification I made of a Common Whitetail—I didn’t look closely enough to be sure it wasn’t a Widow Skimmer. Sigh. I’m learning.

Also in the yard were two Fragile Forktails and a bluet.

Spiders

There was what looked like a sheetweaver web in the Golden Alexander, but no sign of the spiders.