PSoTD

When is the 2008 Annual Insect Field Day?

I think I really noticed them back on Monday... the cicadas.

I saw this in the street yesterday in front of our house and immediately started wondering - what the heck is going on in the tree above that splotch?

I couldn't get a good photo of it, but there's a nest of green herons directly above. The three chicks were all standing on branches when I discovered them, downy and actually pretty big, with their mother on a nearby branch, but once they realized I was continuing to be there, the mother flew to a different tree and the chicks settled back into their nest.