American Coot
American Crow
American Flamingo*
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Pelican
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Barn Swallow
Barnacle Goose*
Belted Kingfisher
Black-and-White Warbler
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black-Headed Gull*
Black Vulture*
Blue Jay
Blue Tit*
Blue-Winged Teal
Bobwhite
Broad-Winged Hawk
Brown Creeper
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Brown Thrasher
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cape May Warbler*
Carolina Chickadee*
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Chipping Sparrow
Common Gallinule
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Gull*
Common Moorhen*
Common Pochard*
Common Redpoll
Cooper's Hawk
Dark-Eyed Junco
Dicksissel
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Goldfinch - See American Goldfinch
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Wood Pewee
Eurasian Blackbird*
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Coot*
Eurasian Jackdaw*
Eurasian Magpie*
European Serin*
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Graylag Goose
Great Black-backed Gull*
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Spotted Woodpecker*
Greater Flamingo*
Greater White-Fronted Goose*
Hairy Woodpecker
Harlequin Duck
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Hooded Crow*
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Laughing Gull*
Lesser Black-backed Gull*
Lesser Scaup
Lincoln's Sparrow
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard (Domestic)
Mallard (Wild)
Mourning Dove
Mute Swan*
Neotropic Cormorant*
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Red-Legged Thrush*
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Rook*
Ross's Goose*
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Turnstone*
Scarlet Tanager
Smooth-Billed Ani*
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
Swamp Sparrow
Tricolored Heron*
Tufted Duck*
Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan*
Turkey Vulture
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Cheeked Pintail*
White-Crowned Pigeon*
White-Crowned Sparrow
White-Eyed Vireo
White-Throated Sparrow
White-Winged Dove
Wild Turkey
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Ants (Formicidae)
Bee Flies (Bombyliidae)
Blow Flies (Calliphoridae)
Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae)
Bumble Bees, etc. (Apidae)
Carrion Beetles (Silphidae)
Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae)
Centipedes, House (Scutigeridae)
Cicadas (Cicadidae)
Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae)
Crane Flies (Tipulidae)
Emeralds (Corduliidae)
Fireflies (Lampyridae)
Flower Flies - See Syrphid Flies
Funnel-Web Spiders (Agelenidae)
Honey Bees - See Bumble Bees, etc.
Hornets - See Yellowjackets, etc.
Hover Flies - See Syrphid Flies
Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae)
Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)
Katydids (Tettigoniidae)
Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae)
Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae)
Leaffooted Bugs (Coreidae)
Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae)
Lightning Bugs - See Fireflies
Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
Mantid Flies (Mantispidae)
Mantids (Mantidae)
Minettia Flies (Minettia)
Narrow-Winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae)
New York Weevils (Ithyceridae)
Orb-Weavers (Araneidae)
Paper Wasps - See Yellowjackets, etc.
Picture-Winged Flies (Ulidiidae)
Plant Bugs (Miridae)
Robber Flies (Asilidae)
Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Scentless Plant Bugs (Rhopalidae)
Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae)
Signal Flies (Platystomatidae)
Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae)
Soldier Flies (Stratiomyidae)
Spittlebugs (Cercopidae)
Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae)
Swallowtails (Papilionidae)
Sweat Bees (Halictidae)
Syrphid Flies (Syrphidae)
Tiger Moths (Arctiidae)
Tiphiid Wasps (Tiphiidae)
Yellowjackets, etc. (Vespidae)
Nice head shots of the goofy goose. I assume this is the one with the brown head and white body from the earlier post? I love the orange around the eye in the 2nd one and the expression in the straight on face is beautifully sweet. Most geese I have known were anything but sweet!
January 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pmYeah, it’s the same goose from before. This guy was atually pretty nice. He came right up to the car and just looked at me, waiting for some food. When he realized I wasn’t going to feed him, he just wandered off. No hissing or snapping!
January 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pmDoes that goose actually have beautiful blue eyes?? Isn’t that kind of unusual?
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pmDon
Don – He certainly does have blue eyes. You know, I don’t know whether or not that is normal or rare… But it is striking.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:59 amBlue eyes? wow. I keep hearing about snow geese in Vermont but not around me here that I know of. They seem to show up further southwest, and by the hundreds (or thousands). They are beautiful.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:16 pmI wish I could ask you about your Sigma lens as I am deciding whether to get one for my Canon Xti….your pictures all look really good. We have one snow goose out in our pond this year.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:55 pmIslandrambles – shoot me an email at “moe AT iowavoice DOT com” and I’ll share whatever information I have, or answer any questions!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm