I present to you: the largest dragonfly in the world, featuring my face for size comparison! :P Photos simply don't convey its sheer size and bulk but hopefully having something for comparison helps.

Anyway, story time! This guy was flying around erratically for at least an hour and a half since we arrived - I assume due to the missing wing half. I hadn't seen it myself but a couple of my friends had, and it somehow hit me in the side of the head and quickly flew off. :P
Anyway, while we were all chilling around the river, it decided to fly straight into the waterfall (in the background in pic 3) and was promptly swept downstream. What else could I do?? I jumped in and chased after it! 😂
As you can tell from the photos, my swim was successful, and I ended up with the most enormous dragonfly I have ever seen right before me. :P I can't even properly describe how enormously huge it was. And those amazing cerci! I gave it some time to dry off, but being humid tropical Queensland, it wasn't happening very quickly. It was more than happy to sit on my hand and so I wondered if it would prefer somewhere a bit higher and drier :P
So that is how it ended up on my face! As it dried and we were plagued by march flies, the obvious solution was to give him one to eat. He accepted it gratefully and somehow ate the entire thing in a single bite. Hopefully that goes a way into showing just how huge and formidable these guys are! Not content, he then sliced his huge mandibles into my nose -_- and had to be gently prized off. He slowly lapped up blood for a while after but luckily didn't do any more biting! If I squint in the mirror I can still see a faint line there now :P
He sat for about an hour before we had to leave and I left him on a shrub. I hope he was okay with half a wing missing, but there wasn't much else I could do. All in all one of the best experiences of my life! :D

First photo is by Haley Harding because I am incapable of taking selfies :P

Set up a Game Camera on an offal pile from a harvested WT deer to document winter scavenging or additional animal activity around site.

1 Red-tailed Hawk(s) first on scene and monopolized site first day till dark and part of daylight hours next morning. Camera did not pick up nighttime activity night #1. Hawk's did not return after morning of day #2

It was amazing and sad at the same time to see a Steppe Eagle being attacked by two dogs for a piece of meat. With its huge wing span wide open, and powerful talons, Eagle was trying to fend for it's food. Unfortunately the pack tactics worked and dogs were able to steal the piece of meat. Invasion of feral animals is one of the eminent threats that needs to be addressed with priority.

ID based on this key:
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/docs/pictorial_keys/fleas.pdf

Genal and pronotal combs present, eye present, genal comb has more than 5 pointed spines and is horizontal
Spine 1 and spine 11 of genal comb approximately equal in length, Head length twice height

Found in home with 3 cats and 1 dog. Home has been sprayed inside and it seems the few fleas leftover were trying to find a place to go and one landed on my sister's arm. She grabbed it and we stuck it in soapy water (around 5PM, photographed at 7:15PM with microscope)

Two owls began hooting in my neighborhood while I was painting. The owl hooting with three notes after the first three (I haven’t done music since middle school so bear with me) has a deeper lower pitch hoot that is immediately replied to by the other owl but with two notes after the first three and at a higher pitch. They’ve been at it for 30 minutes now.

Hoo-h’Hoo Hooo Hooo Hooo
Hoo-h’Hoo Hooo Hooo