Pileated family

Wasps enjoyed the mountain mint.  I rescued yet another oriental beetle and some queen ants, but I left the spider on the pool ladder alone.  Mud wasps worked on their nests under the roof overhang.  A bluebird felt that I was too close to the feeder.   The hunchback squirrel I was worried about was afflicted with a warble -- painful but not permanent.  It seems early in the year for that.  

In the afternoon a widow skimmer used a perch in between keeping the patio bug-free.  A blue dasher obelisked on a different stake.  A female great blue skimmer perched half way up the stake.  Different dragonfly species have strong preferences for different heights above ground. 

A Carolina wren pecked at the suet, then was followed by a downy woodpecker.  A brown headed nuthatch scared a cardinal off the seed feeder!  Then the pileated woodpeckers arrived.  I saw one male and two females for certain but there may have been a fourth bird as they moved in and out of view.  A titmouse also visited.  The ground cherry plants,Physalis virginiana, were in bloom.