The last few days walks have been productive photographically as well as a lot less hot and humid. It's always interesting to see things ... anything ... that I haven't seen before (or at least don't remember). This blog there are three ... a fly, a beetle and a caterpillar ... that I've not seen previously. Also there were some at least seldom seen birds and some deer.

This is a Carrion Beetle. It eats dead things. It's about 3/4 of an inch long. Note the cool antenna or sensors.
A Swift Feather-legged Fly. The day I saw this one I did see 2 or 3 more. The next day I saw none.

Hyphantria cunea, Fall Webworm Moth, larva. I've seen these in the webs but as far as I know, I've never seen one in the open. The spiky hairs aren't apparent in the web.
This is a Black Billed Cuckoo working on swallowing a cicada. It wasn't easy as it spent maybe 5 minutes twisting its head and pushing on branches. At least from what I could see it finally got it down.
This is a beautiful little bird. I didn't find an identification.
This was a mother and almost grown young one. It may be an Indigo Bunting.
A Gold Finch meeting. Originally there were 3 in the conversation.
A Chipmunk eating berries.
A White Tailed Deer eating berries. She had lots of mosquitos on her. As I was walking down the path in the savannah she was laying along the edge. I assume that was her bed for the night. She let me get pretty close before (grudgingly) getting up. She then moved away a bit and started with her breakfast. At the beginning of the path I saw two doe's and three fauns.
A rather large orb weaver by the golf course water pump building.
This is apparently a very big mosquito or at least that's the best any information I found could give me. The lower legs were at least 3/4 of an inch long. Regardless of what it is, there is the question of 'what is the survival value of such long and likely fragile legs?' A cursory search resulted in no commentary on why the long legs or how they are controlled. The next photograph is a crane fly which was on the same wall. Similar legs but different head structure.
Crane Fly
An evening and a first person viewing drone flight about 450 feet over Wind Lake. From the ground the sunset was just a glow in the West. From here it was beautiful. Do birds ever see this; do they care. While I was at this height a swallow went by going up to some altitude higher than where I was. Are there bugs up that high? Can the swallows hunt bugs in this light? Or, was it just going up to enjoy the view?
Another drone photography flight (8/30/21) looking at Mallard Lake. There is more water showing than a month ago but still a lot of algae
and water lilies. An interesting trail in the water lilies. There are beavers on the island. Is that their path to the shore.
A little really industrious pollinator on a thistle flower.