ryvesie's Identifications

I see these little birds often but they are so active that it is almost impossible to get a still photograph of them. This one I observed from the deck in the bush below and I was able to get photos from a distance.

I am monitoring what is happening in the area outside my bedroom where there is a patch of dense Swan Plant seedlings, and now contains a significant number of fifth instar caterpillars. They are starting to crawl away and finding places to hang.

The butterflies are still laying eggs and the Asian Paper Wasps are still patrolling the area, but they are leaving the large caterpillars alone.