Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Living up to the Ancient Greek meaning of its genus name (“swift-moving”—like Ulysses’ winged words), this brilliant male was moving skillfully and quickly indeed through the morning sunshine, arcing above the water and reeds in pursuit of tiny insects, but paused on a Cattail just long enough to show the green of his crown and breadth of his shoulders before leaping back into the air.