Favorites in 2011 (Sep-Oct)

Photo:    
 Boxelder Bug - reversing 14-42mm lens  mostly using 23-area AF: P1080625-648.JPG   Picasa   a red adult (newly molted)

 Golden-crowned Kinglet  - <1>  (female because of yellow crown patch)    

 Robin - swallowing berry (a hackberry or not?) 
 Indigo Bunting - <1> (not blue grosbeak whose beak is much larger) 
 Hooded Merganser -  male-1 
      
Some nice pictures of Hooded Merganser:
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/P1110378.fromRAW._hf.jpg
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/P1110164.fromRAW.w1200.jpg
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/P1110150.w1600.jpg
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/P1110135.fromRAW.w800.jpg
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/62.w800.jpg
          http://www.siung.net/bird/tmp2/2011/bird/GH2/P1110061.w712.jpg

 Wasp -
Bald-faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) -  crop-1  <1>   <2>   <3>   <4>   <5>   <6 face is also b&w>    
 Wasp -
Black & White Wasp, or called Four-toothed Mason Wasp (Monobia quadridens) -  <1>     
 Dragonfly/Damselfly
   R
ambur's Forktail: <1>    orange female     
   Green Darner (5 legs, female) -  FZ35-1    FZ35-2    FZ35-3    FZ35-4 (abdominal appendages)    FZ35-5    FZ35-6    FZ35-7 (rotated1  rotated2)   FZ35-8 (un-rotated)  
   Green Darner (5 legs, female) -  Macro-1 (note the Newton's rings on its eye)   Macro-2
   Green Darner (6 legs, female) -  <1>

 Butterfly/Moth

 
 Monarch - <1>   9/25/2011   Flickr1 (note the bee at right below) orig. size
 
Sulphur - <1> (This is Orange Sulphur since it has some orange topside)

IF (in flight) : 
 
GIF (Gull in flight) - <1> 
 Oystercatcher - more post-processing & w500
 
 
Osprey caught a fish
 Great Egret in flight
 Yellow-crowned Night Heron  
 Album - Nectaring insects    Nectaring insects sample 1   Others 

 Green Heron - Flicker   <1>    
 Sanderling - <4> (molting
)
 Ruddy Turnstone - <1>   

 
Flower Fly - <1>   
 Bumble Bee - FZ35 best   GH2: P1010436-452.JPG
 Eastern Carpenter Bee ( Xylocopa virginica ) 
  female on Salvia - <1>   <2>   <3>   <4>   <5> ; 
  more - <6>   <7>   
 Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina, (probably) - <1>   

 Eastern Gray Squirrel (8/28) - <1>

Video:  
 Boxelder Bug close-up 

 Great Blue Heron in flight