Today's Flowers # 76

My friend Luiz from Brazil does the Today's Flowers Meme, check it out. Come and join with your flower photos. Sunday at 2 GMT is the post time.

A couple of bees on my Sedum, I love the little blooms.

A dragonfly on a flower at Plum Creek Park. Darla let me know the flowers name is Lamb's Ear.

I love to see insects and flowers together.

Camera Critters #77

Camera Critters by Misty Dawn, go here to see who's participating.

Their were a pair of dragonflies in my Ohio Buckeye Tree. I could see them flying around the area so I got some close shots.
They were a neat brown color to match the tree.

They were a lot of fun to capture with one being a mover and the other staying put. I really enjoyed the show as they flitted from limb to limb. They were probably resting after travelling a far way.

Check out all the critters from above.

Camera Critters # 74

Camera Critters by Misty Dawn, go here to see who's participating.

Today I'm showing some recent dragonfly captures. I think this one is a Common White.
This brown one was real cool. The wing is a little battered.

A pair of red ones mating.

This big one would not land but would sit there hovering. I shot it across the stream in the air.

This was a neat brown one with see through wings.

You can see the critters around the world above.

Wednesday Potpourri - Visiting the Bog

The winner of the drawing for a prize from What Is It XXV was Mary from Indiana. She has a neat site with a lot of birds, butterflies and dragonflies to help with identification. Congrats to all the others who got the answer correct.

I took a trip to the Kent Bog yesterday. There have been a Black Bear spotted in the area of the bog and I decided to take a walk. It was confirmed by the Kent Police Department when responding to a call. I did take some photos while at the bog. Here is a Ruby Meadow-hawk that sat along the walkway.
This is a female Common Whitetail on the walkway.
Red Spotted Purple Admiral Butterfly that was in the bog. They are so dark I thought it was black.

Here is a damselfly but I don't know the name.

This was the only truly black animal I saw. Yes, the famous Kent Black Squirrel has invaded the Kent Bog.

There were no Black Bear sightings. I saw and heard the black Crow and that is as close as I came to things which were black.

Wednesday Potpourri - Dragonflies

I have had some fun with dragonflies the last few weeks since they moved north into the area. Several photos are from today at a local Kent park. I'm not the best at ID's but I do enjoy them.

Widow Skimmer - I loved the dead flower it was on.
Common Whitetail - Up close and personal.

?? Clubtail - Pretty long shot on this one.

Widow Skimmer - It gave me a cocked head look.

Widow Skimmer - Neat shot on a colorful flower.

I also got some Damselflies.

Camera Critters # 63

Camera Critters by Misty Dawn, go here to see who's participating. I will be traveling this week but will check your post when I return.

I was with my Brother-In-Law when I spotted this. Do you see it? It is there and quite visible. I have seen very few sitting still so far this year.
Did you see the dragonfly on the branch? It has a good hold.

It kept hold of the branch and got a shot from the bottom.

I decided to try for a real close-up, how about this one. You can see the feet and spikes on the legs.

I do hope you enjoyed the trip from my journey.

Dragonflies This Year

This is my first year capturing dragonflies and I am happy with some of my results. I'm sharing my favorites from 2008. This was at a pond from a golf course. I captured this one at the same time.

This was from the Kent Bog.

This was from a small pond after fishing.

This was from my back yard.

This was also from the back yard.

This is from the same pond as the red one.

I really enjoyed this new experience with my macro shots.

Wednesday Potpourri # 5 and an Award

My Wednesday Potpourri will consist of shots that I have taken in my back yard over the Summer and Fall.

This is a dragonfly from two weeks ago. I was cutting the grass and it landed on my block for a rest. I never disturbed it as I took some shots. I tried to look up the type but was not successful. It had an unusual color with some red in the brown. Check out the little spider to the bottom right.

It had an unusual tail so I thought it was some type of a club tail. It was an Autumn Meadowhawk, Tom of Ohio Nature let me know.

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny grazed in my yard one day in the Summer.

This bunny was by the garden eating a dandelion. It is near my fish cleaning bench.

The final animal was my nemesis the Groundhog. I was lucky and they never broke through my fence this year. This was in the Fall and the tomatoes were done. I do hope you enjoyed my photo journey through the back yard.

I received this award from Chrissy's photo blog this past week. She does the Meme's that I participate in so we have gotten to enjoy each others sites. I think it is a neat award.
1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate other blogs for this award (it said 10 but I don't think that quantity is as important as quality).
4. Add links to those blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs
6. Give a reason why you consider their blogs cool.

I am passing it on to the following cool blogs.

1. Shelly for her neat shots of birds.

2. Leedra for all the posts on the animals of her area.

3. TommyV for the photo's of Colorado wildlife.

4. Joann and Jack for their neat stories of Virginia.

5. Willard for his interests in the wildlife of Pennsylvania.

6. Warren and his faithfulness to his Kent, England birds.
7. Tina and her all the bird photos.

8. Mary and her many bird photos.

Wednesday Potpourri #2

Wednesday is a time to catch up on photos that I've wanted to post but just haven't had time. In that vane I give you the following photos today.

The line at our local Family Video was fairly long today, it was extended clear to the roof. Every one wanted the same Alfred Hitchcock movie 'The Birds'. I wonder why.
I shot this Yellow Legged Meadowhawk sitting on a cement drain at a local pond that I visit for the first time.
There was a Brown Praying Mantis at work on the side of the building. This is 75 miles away and is the same species as the one at home. Note the injured right front foot.
My grandson soccer boy told me to take this bug on the front window because he liked its neat color.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that these bugs were on the building next to where I found the Praying Mantis. Do they look familiar? They are Box Elder bugs.

This was a pretty neat Bumblebee shot I got at The Kent Public Library.

This is a bug I found on our siding, I think it's called a stink bug.

Do you know what a group of crows is called? Well it is a 'Murder of Crows'. I enjoyed the movie of the same name.

And finally, there was a Potato Bug on my shed in the rear of my property. I was in the process of painting the shed and had one coat of primer on the shed. I need to show the changes to the shed next week.

I had wide variety of subjects and yet all in the same critter vane.

Small Pond Captures

The trip to Triangle Lake included a stop at a small pond in Kent on the way home. A Turkey Vulture circled a little way out. You can see the back underside of the wings are white. There was a lot of activity at the pond.
There was a Red dragonfly (Carolina Skimmer)

a White dragonfly. (Common White-tailed Skimmer)
and a Blue Dragonfly. (White Faced - the same as at Triangle Lake note the wings and the green eyes)
This was a perfect Olympics combination for the USA.

There was also a Brown dragonfly (Red Rock Skimmer?) but I don't know how he fit in, it was windy and he had a good hold.
His wings were a little funky.
There was also a Monarch Butterfly on some vegetation. The first this year. The Canadian Geese were there in full force.
They were at rest but I disturbed them as I searched the pond.
The guard goose kept a weary eye on me.
A nice catch from a small pond.