Mysterious birds

I was gone much of the day.  Down at the Municipal Center I glimpsed an amazingly green bee  but it left quickly.   When I got home, after 5pm, I went outside for an hour. 

A slaty skimmer haunted the creek edge.   Turtles were out basking again.  A golden digger wasp and a threadwaisted wasp shared the mountain mint uneasily.

A soaring bird made me wonder if it was a Mississippi kite.  Then an immature red bellied woodpecker  began calling from the oak.  (I had to look up a sound file to be sure.)   I also saw a brown thrasher and a half dozen blue jays.   And, of course, there were hummer wars - one crashed into the window and kept going.  But there was also a wasp hanging around the feeder.