World of Mostly Standing Birds

The World of Birds show at the Minnesota Zoo continues, and I saw it again in August of this year. There was no aerial catch by a raptor this time, but Boyd made an appearance (no photos in this post), and it provides a chance to see raptors and largish birds with no netting in the way.

A toco toucan catches a grape half.

 

knobbed hornbill

Jefferson, a marabu stork, lifts off. I'm not sure this picture conveys his size.

 

A milky eagle owl, from Africa. Eagle owls' eyes kind of freak me out.

One of the owl's talons

African fish eagle

I don't know if the flying bug has anything to do with the open mouth.

Sleeping Bees

Bees--carpenter bees especially--seem to like to spend nights in the missing gardener's celosia patch. Some of them like cosmos, too.

This male eastern carpenter bee hung almost upside down. He was at an angle but the camera's orientation made him look like this. (Focus stack of 28 images)

Easier to comprehend this way?

  

A female. (Focus stack of 26 images)

I found this bumble bee in a blue spruce.

This one was covered in tiny water droplets after an overnight rain.

Focus stack of 22 images, retouched

This bumble bee found a cosmos to its liking.

Same bee. (Focus stack of 28 images, retouched)

The same bumble or different? It was a different day. (Focus stack of two images)