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Blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), a.k.a. the Swift Long-winged skimmer (they aren’t especially long-winged, though that’s what longipennis means) and the Blue pirate. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. July 26, 2021.

The common whitetail or long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America. Females have a brown body and a different pattern of wing spots than the males. - Wikipedia. In our yard, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 24, 2021.

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 22,2021 Katydids get their name from the sound they make. Their repetitive clicks and calls sounded like someone saying, "Ka-ty-did", so that phrase became the common name. Both genders are capable of producing the sound. Katydids are related to crickets and grasshoppers, with large back legs for jumping. Unlike grasshoppers, Katydids have extremely long, thin antennae. Unlike crickets, their bodies are more rhomboidal, like a kite with four equal lengths. They have wings and will fly away from danger. Most sightings occur when they land on an object and linger. Some have even gone on car rides, clinging to the hood of the vehicle. source - https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description...

The wet head look. At our little pond. Leiothlypis peregrina The Tennessee Warbler is a common nectar "thief" on its wintering grounds in tropical forests. Most nectar-eating birds, bats, and insects probe a flower from the front to get the nectar, spreading pollen on their faces in the process. But Tennessee warblers pierce the flower tube at the base, lapping up the nectar without helping pollinate the flower. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 21, 2021.

In Rondeau's marsh, July 20, 2021. Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) grows in a wide latitude of locations—from the heat of Mexico to the Arctic Circle in Canada—mostly as a small round shrub (3-4') in the north to a small tree (6-8') in the south.Buttonbush offers its nectar to numerous bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, and its seed as food to more than 25 species of birds and at least three mammals. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 19, 2021. While hummingbirds live between 5-8 years, the lifespan of hummingbird moths is much shorter. The longest living moths live up to 7 months, but most live as little as 3-5 weeks. This moth is sometimes called "hummingbird moth" or "flying lobster - Wikipedia.

Feeding junior. Northern flickerr feeding young, Rondeau Provincial Park, July 17, 2021. Colaptes auratus Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants. Source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology- All About Birds