It was on a very hot day in July 2017 that I visited Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary for the first time. It was also the first time I really got to see the bright red, male scarlet tanager. I remember it was not a very fruitful day birding-wise. Other than this scarlet tanager, I saw a swamp sparrow and a tufted titmouse, and that was pretty much it.
However, it was a very fruitful day bug(ging?)-wise. When I returned to the visitor center, its staff pointed to a flowerbed, and excitedly told me to take a close look at it. There was a Hummingbird moth! I didn’t even know there was such a thing that existed.