Sunday wildlife

Birds get scarcer, or at least harder to see, hiding from the midsummer heat in Austin. But insects seem to thrive in the heat.

Here is a yellow-billed cuckoo, well camouflaged in the leaves of a hackberry tree near Onion Creek


And Sunday's insect, a dragonfly, is a male eastern pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis), resting on a horse path, also near Onion Creek