This blog is photographs from the last few days.

I haven't seen a Green Heron for sometime. On this morning both a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron were visible from the main pier.
Blue Heron with a snack.
Next day, the heron got a medium sized fish and a water lily. It worked for awhile and finally got rid of the water lily. Note how far its beak went through the fish.
Watching and photographing still leaves questions. I could see how it got the fish off it beak and didn't drop it. In this photograph it is flipping the fish around to go down head first. I've capture this process 3 or 4 times over the years of watching Blue Heron. How it cause the rotation of the fish as it opens its beak and flips it is a mystery.
Three Turkeys on a rail. One took off and went up in a nearby tree. A second one went to another tree. The third looked around some and then hoped off the rail and went into the woods.
Turkeys make a lot of noise when they fly.
A Katydid and a bee.
To the left of this spider was a regular orb weaver web. The spider was as shown but for the 2 or so minutes I watched was, for lack of a better term, 'plucking' the web it's on with one of it legs. It did this every 3 or 4 seconds. The vibration this imparted to the web can be seen in the back ground. Why would it do this ... no answer. Maybe it distracts bugs and more fly into the web.
A Webworm Moth.
I experimented once again with my thermal infrared camera. No new revelations ... just interesting. This is a bumblebee.
People near the Nature Center.
Catbird with a berry.
Wolf spider waiting for visitors.
Humid, hot morning in the woods.
A bit of outdoor art ... a berry on a rail.
This is the center structure of a small orb weaver's web; about 3 inches across. The outer structure is the usual circles; 12-14 inches across. This part of the web structure was interesting by its detailed connections and the size of the mesh relative to the spider. To create the 6 sided polygons, the spider would have to somehow visualize what it was doing and do it without being able to see the result (unless it has eyes near its spinneret which is not documented anywhere I'm aware of). Another wonder of nature.
Honeybees entering and leaving the access tube to the bee hive in the Nature Center.
A squirrel with its Hickory Nut lunch.