Day 5.126: Botany, Ornithology, Herpetology and what?

We had a short walk on Sunday at Five Rivers. It felt oppressively hot, but the car temperature sensor informed us it was 74°F - wow is summer ever going to be a shock.

For once, I took very few pictures of family members walking on the trails, but I did attempt a bit of amateur naturalism.

First, some botany:

Pretty flowers and baby trees - not bad.

Then some ornithology:

No prizes for photography, but we can at least identify a spotted sandpiper, some bank swallows and a red-winged blackbird.

Some herpetology:

The two large snapping turtles had a brief but dramatic fight after this and one of them shot off across the lake at an astonishing pace.

Finally, I captured this:

I think I know what it is - do you?