A pleasant hike around the Beaver Lake Trail at Pocahontas SP turned up a GREAT EGRET. Not a lot of signs of migration; there were at least half a dozen singing YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS (outnumbering the RED-EYEDS). Full list follows: Great Blue Heron Great Egret Wood Duck Red-shouldered Hawk Killdeer Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Belted Kingfisher Red-Bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Pewee Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Wood Thrush (nice look) Robin Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cardinal Goldfinch Also I heard some buzzing and scuffling among the leaves at the side of the trail. I saw something green and white struggling on the ground. Thinking it might be a female hummingbird entangled in something, I went to investigate and found what appeared to be a large hornet attacking a cicada. I carefully separated them with a large stick, and the cicada flew off, apparently unharmed. The hornet was pretty hefty ( about the size of my thumb to the joint) and yellow and black - like a very fat yellowjacket. Wendy Ealding