Winged Wednesday 9/18/19

[Eric Gofreed]

For the eleventh “Winged Wednesday,” I have selected some honeybees finding nectar on a red yucca. That’s not the whole story. They’re drinking sugar water I put in the flowers to attract hummingbirds. This is a multi-flash photo using 5 flashes at 1/64th powers suppling a light burst of around 1/24,00th of a second. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens, bicolored agapostemon)

The second photo is a small sweat bee. These metallic colored bees are great pollinators. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens)

The third photo is a Cuckoo Wasp. Also, a beautiful metallic green. This tiny thing is about 2mm long and photographed with a 65mm macro lens and twin flash. Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

A gull while i was at Refugio State Beach, Ca.

 

[AlanLichty]

Still working on the bug side of wings. By all useful laws of physics this guy has no right to be airborne given the wing size and body size.

Flowers and a Bumblebee

• AlanLichty
• Sep 18, 2019

 

[Eric Gofreed]

A gull while i was at Refugio State Beach, Ca.

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That's an adult non-breeding Heermann's gull. It's a year away from being a mature adult and having an all white head. Awesome photo, Darcy

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Still working on the bug side of wings. By all useful laws of physics this guy has no right to be airborne given the wing size and body size.

Flowers and a Bumblebee

• AlanLichty
• Sep 18, 2019

you're right about the aerodynamics of round-bodied bee. Superb photo, Alan. Quite beautiful

 

[Douglas Sherman]

While on my recent trip I spotted these cormorants on a yellow dory at Peggy's Cove. I shot it with a 300 mm lens (I left my 500mm lens at home) and it was not as much as I needed so I didn't see what was revealed when I magnified it in photoshop. I couldn't resist adding the caption.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks again for starting this Eric, and an awesome set you started with. And Douglas, thats a very funny post.

Here is mine.

 

[ckcarr]

Is there a theme? I am trying to follow Eric's lead with a bug!

The weird thing about this picture is that the dragonfly was way out mid-lake at Warner Lake, and I cropped quite a bit. Yet the D800E and 300mm f/4 with 1.7tc caught it perfectly. Not sure how that happened. That early D800E was a great body for details.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

That's an adult non-breeding Heermann's gull. It's a year away from being a mature adult and having an all white head. Awesome photo, Darcy

Thank you Eric , sometimes I really can get a decent photo LMAO

 

[Littlefield]

Great Egret coming at me.
Don

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

That's an adult non-breeding Heermann's gull. It's a year away from being a mature adult and having an all white head. Awesome photo, Darcy

Why is it non-breeding? Do they not breed?

 

[JimFox]

For the eleventh “Winged Wednesday,” I have selected some honeybees finding nectar on a red yucca. That’s not the whole story. They’re drinking sugar water I put in the flowers to attract hummingbirds. This is a multi-flash photo using 5 flashes at 1/64th powers suppling a light burst of around 1/24,00th of a second. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens, bicolored agapostemon)

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The second photo is a small sweat bee. These metallic colored bees are great pollinators. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens)

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The third photo is a Cuckoo Wasp. Also, a beautiful metallic green. This tiny thing is about 2mm long and photographed with a 65mm macro lens and twin flash. Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)


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These are amazing Eric! I really am enjoying the detail.

 

[JimFox]

A gull while i was at Refugio State Beach, Ca.

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Very nice job Darcy!

 

[JimFox]

Mine is some Pelicans from Pismo Beach a few weeks ago.

It was very foggy, so I went with B&W.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Oh I google it, so does that mean he is a year to young to breed?

Mine is some Pelicans from Pismo Beach a few weeks ago.

It was very foggy, so I went with B&W.

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Thanks Jim. I got some of them at Refugio, but deleted them , it was so foggy!

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

For the eleventh “Winged Wednesday,” I have selected some honeybees finding nectar on a red yucca. That’s not the whole story. They’re drinking sugar water I put in the flowers to attract hummingbirds. This is a multi-flash photo using 5 flashes at 1/64th powers suppling a light burst of around 1/24,00th of a second. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens, bicolored agapostemon)

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The second photo is a small sweat bee. These metallic colored bees are great pollinators. (Sweat Bee, Agapostemon virescens)

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The third photo is a Cuckoo Wasp. Also, a beautiful metallic green. This tiny thing is about 2mm long and photographed with a 65mm macro lens and twin flash. Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)


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Eric, I had one of those cuckoo wasps this spring & couldn't get a good pic, they are actually so lovely & so vibrantly metallic Nice one

 

[Eric Gofreed]

While on my recent trip I spotted these cormorants on a yellow dory at Peggy's Cove. I shot it with a 300 mm lens (I left my 500mm lens at home) and it was not as much as I needed so I didn't see what was revealed when I magnified it in photoshop. I couldn't resist adding the caption.

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too funny, wish I had taken that!

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Mine is some Pelicans from Pismo Beach a few weeks ago.

It was very foggy, so I went with B&W.

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Superb focus and tracking, Jim. Just like landscape, golden hour is a key.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Oh I google it, so does that mean he is a year to young to breed?

Thanks Jim. I got some of them at Refugio, but deleted them , it was so foggy!

that's my understanding

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Why is it non-breeding? Do they not breed?

I studied gulls 25 years ago and have forgotten most of it. I do remember that these White-headed Gulls don't bread until their heads are completely white.