Photo:
   Glossy Ibis - <1>
   Short-billed Dowitcher - <1>
   Greater Yellowlegs - <1>  (P1240904.JPG to 912 with Short-billed Dowitcher)
   female (Common/Red-breasted) Merganser - <1>   <2>   <3>  
   Forster's Tern -  [young Forster's Tern on 7/24/2010]
      juvenile : <1>
      adult : <1>
   juvenile Greater Egret?
   black-and-yellow wasp -   <1> (European Yellow Jacket or probably European Paper Wasp, Polistes dominula)  cf. here & Yellow Jacket @ 7/21/2012
      and it is male Polistes dominula because its antennae's last segments are slightly curled.   bugguide.net (male)    male pic

Big John:  Spotted Sandpiper (both am & pm); Kingfisher (early morning);
Don's trip:  Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs; female Red-breasted Merganser;
Gadwall.  A non-typical Mourning Dove or Hybrid?   Barn Owl is still here.  Barn Swallows.
Moth & Grass-Skipper butterfly were seen and are easier to be found in early morning.  Saw Cicada finally.  Next is to take a good picture of it.

Photo:
   Moth - <1> (using Raynox DCR-250)  
   Grass-Skipper - <1> (not a  Tawny-edged Skipper)
   Bee -
      Brown-belted Bumble Bee, male (not female worker):  <1> (bugguide link)   
      Giant Resin Bee ( Megachile sculpturalis ) Small Carpenter Bee : <2> (bugguide link)
   Spotted Sandpiper - <1>  
   Least Sandpiper - <1>    
   Yellow warbler, female - <1>      
   Mourning Dove, non-typical - <1>

   By the time the cicada-killer wasps emerge from the ground in July and seek out Tibicen species, the Brood X Magicicada will be gone, not to be heard from again for 17 years.

   "Besides, there is no point in trying to control the cicadas. They emerge in such numbers that they are effectively beyond control, because predator populations cannot increase rapidly enough to control them," Holliday said.

   Biologists believe that the periodic and mass emergence of Magicicada is a survival strategy: Their sheer numbers overwhelm predators, ensuring that at least some survive. And the years-long lag between emergences mean no predator can depend on their annual availability.

   But the lack of a viable predator control of the periodical cicadas doesn't mean the periodical cicadas have no predators, or no effect on their predators' lives.

  "Everything—birds, rodents, small mammals, even snakes, lizards, and fish will feed heavily on cicadas when they are out," said Keith Clay, a biologist and periodical-cicada expert at Indiana University in Bloomington.

   Giant Resin Bee - an introduced species.   good source :

The giant resin bee is one of the largest members of the leafcutting bee family, Megachilidae. It’s called “giant” because, at sizes of from one-half inch to almost one inch, it is conspicuously larger than other leafcutting bees. The “resin” in the name comes from the bee’s habit of collecting plant resin to seal the cells in which it lays its eggs. The giant resin bee also uses plant sap and mud when making the cells.

The body of the giant resin bee is mainly black with dense yellowish hairs covering the thorax. Although the giant resin bees vary considerably in size, they are longer and more cylindrical than the carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica L.).

The females are usually much larger—about 1.25 times—than the males. Female giant resin bees have a pointed abdomen (photo, below left), whereas the abdomen in the males is truncated (photo, below right).

Female giant resin bee with pointed abdomen.

Male giant resin bee with truncated abdomen.

 

Somebody saw Variegated Fritillary butterfly.  At the blind pond, both sexes of American Goldfinch.

Photo:
   American Goldfinch (female) - <1>  
   Large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) - <1>
   female Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp - <1> (Her hind legs are equipped with special spines that help her push the dirt behind her.) (next to her is a flying small bug, flower fly?)   <1b> (cropped from OOC, out of camrea, JPG, unprocessed)

Video:
   Sand Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus)  - Part 1    Part 2

Notes of Sand Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus) :
 (1) It is a typical "raker": use its front legs to rake loose soil backward beneath its body. And a small mound is formed during raking. But after the entrance is closed, no conspicuous soil is accumulated.
 (2) The wasp is a type of "sand wasp" that preys on true bugs in the order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. Each female wasp digs a burrow in sand, and stocks the cell at the end of the tunnel with paralyzed true bugs that will serve as food for a single larval offspring. Turns out that the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys) has become a favorite target of the wasp, which hunts the immature stages of the pest.   src   more
 (3) So it digs single-celled nest.
 (4) Two Elm Seed Bugs are seen in this undated handout photo provided by the Idaho State Department of Agriculture. A federal official said the invasive insect commonly found in south-central Europe has been detected in southwestern Idaho, marking the first time the elm seed bug has been spotted in the U.S.  src

Photo:
   House Finch -
   Clapper Rail - <1>   <2>   chick-1
   Yellow-crowned Night Heron - <1>    <2>    <3>   
   juvenile Night Heron - take off:  <1>    <2>   
   butterflies :
      Question Mark -
      Eastern Tiger Swallowtail with broken wing -
      Monarch -
      yellow butterfly -
   wasps :
      paper wasps at nest  -   <1> (probably Polistes exclamans)  cf. here   more
      worker (female) Vespula germanica, the German wasp, one of  European yellow jackets, black and yellow -   <1>  (not the common wasp, Vespula vulgaris)   wiki picture   bugguide_id   [cf. 11/26/2011] 
            It is very similar to the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), but seen head on, its face has three tiny black dots. German wasps also have black dots on their abdomen, while the common wasp's analogous markings are fused with the black rings above them, forming a different pattern.
      Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp, probably, at Kissena - <1> (to P1240340.JPG, P1240348.JPG)
      Great Black Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) at Kissena - <1> (to P1240363.JPG)   <2a>    <2b> (unedited)   bugguide_id
   bees :
      Carpenter Bee -   <1>
      Bumble Bee -   <1> (not a Brown-belted Bumble Bee?) 
   damselflies :
   dragonflies :
      Seaside Dragonlet - female-1   male-1 ( saw a male at 7/24/2010 )   male-2   male-3   female-2a (Thorax's orange stripes darken with age)    female-2b (edited)   male+female1   male+female2

Note:
 (1) Seaside Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax berenice) - NJ info
 (2) Great Black Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) - wasps.htm
 (3) Clapper Rail       http://birds.audubon.org/species/clarai

Along North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the Clapper Rail is a permanent resident from about New Jersey southward into Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the islands of the western Caribbean.  ... A small population of migratory Clapper Rails extends from northern New Jersey into southern New England.

Of the approximately 21 recognized subspecies of Clapper Rail, the 3 that are Endangered are in the West.

Reproduction

Males are territorial year round but are most aggressive during the breeding season and will chase off any other vocalizing male. The pairs form monogamous bonds that appear to last for the season. The male calls the female with a series of "keks," that sound like stones being tapped together. He courts her with exaggerated postures that feature the flash of his white under tail coverts. Using course marsh plants, the pair raises a platform from just a few inches to 5 feet above the water or ground. Set among thick marsh vegetation, the nest may have a cover and an access ramp. Several other mounds are constructed as roost sites for the chicks.

5-8 whitish eggs, splotched with shades of brown, are incubated by the pair for about 20 days. Covered in black down, the chicks are soon (about 1 day) able to walk and swim, but need warmth from the adults. When threatened, they may hide or be carried to safety by an adult. In about a week, the adults split the brood and care for their own portion, until the young reach independence at about 6 weeks old. The pair may raise a second brood.

Migration

Only the Atlantic population from New England south into the mid-coast of North Carolina makes a traditional migration. Spring migrants probably move in March and April, but the precise schedule and their routes have not been determined. Fall migrants begin to depart in late summer and continue to move well into November. Rails breeding farther north migrate earlier. Migration occurs at night and probably at low altitudes.

Five days after the cull of Canada Geese introduced by Senator Gillibrand ("Killerbrand"), I visited there with heavy attack from mosquitoes. 
No cicada was observed.  Only a few seconds of their song was heard, which was also heard on Friday morning at home.
Swarm of sand wasps. Or flies mimic wasps?   Looks like one of the wasps that burrows in sand, packing chambers with eggs and paralyzed insects.  ( bugguide.net ) 

Common name: Cicada killer wasps (or Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp)
Scientific name: Sphecius speciosus

Also known as: giant cicada killer, sand hornet

Size: 1-1/8 to 1-5/8 inches long

Commonly confused with: European hornet

Life cycle: Cicada killers are solitary wasps. Males emerge from pupal cases in mid-July to early August, a few weeks before the females. The males tunnel out of the ground, leaving telltale holes, and select a territory that they actively defend. Females mate soon after emerging, and then begin digging burrows in the ground using their mandibles and legs. The burrows can be several feet deep with numerous branches. Once construction is complete, the female searches in trees and shrubs. Upon capturing a cicada, the female stings it injecting venom. Then, she carries the cicada back to the burrow, where she lays an egg on its living, but paralyzed body. Within two weeks, the egg hatches into a larva, eats the cicada, and develops into a pre-pupa, the stage at which it will spend the winter. Cicada killers are active in late summer, the same time that cicadas are present. By September, most adults have died.

http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/stinging/cicadakiller.htm

  
 (9) Sand wasps (Genus Bicyrtes): Provision nests with true bugs, esp. Pentatomidae, also Coreidae), and sometimes Reduviidae; the nest is "mass-provisioned", i.e., stocked just once, then closed (1)(5)(6)    src
 (10) Video found: Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus (Sand Wasp) swarm of males, females at burrows with mature and immature stinkbugs and cleptoparasitic flies laying maggots on the wasp's prey
 (10b) Video found: Cicada Killer - Sphecius speciosus
 (11) Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus is a solitary Sand Wasp in the subfamily, Bembicinae.  It hunts nymphs of stink bugs and leaf-footed bugs and, occasionally, assassin bugs.   It digs tunnels in sandy soil and stores bugs in a chamber for the offspring.  The nest is provisioned with several bug nymphs.  The female lays an egg on one of the nymphs and then closes the nest with sand.  src
 (12) A review of the genus Bicyrtes  mirror
 (13) A cicada killer wasp digging for the cicada and her eggs.   
 (14) Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp: The females are somewhat larger than the males, and both are among the largest wasps seen in the Eastern United States.   Adults feed on flower nectar and other plant sap exudates.   wiki
 (15) The cicada is placed in a dead-end chamber of the burrow; the female Cicada Killer then lays a single egg (sometimes two) on the still paralyzed but very much alive cicada, and seals up the chamber. When the egg hatches, the larva gnaws through the exoskeleton of the cicada and feeds on its internal organs, saving the nervous system for last so as to maximize the length of time that the cicada remains alive.   src

 (16) Male eggs are laid on a single cicada but female eggs are given two or sometimes three cicadas; this is because the female wasp is twice as large as the male and must have more food.  wiki