Hunyady Auction Company - a class act; I've been to two of their sales this year and they organize the goods well, keep the auction moving through the day, and provide excellent assistance loading large items. Each time, I only bought one item, but the experience was quite good and I will be going to more of their sale in the future.

 

Blue Jays - Cyanocitta cristata - seven in one frame.

 

Common Mergansers - Mergus merganser - females - swimming upstream in the Schuylkill River about half a mile below the Kernsville Dam. There were six adults and one juvenile in the group I saw. At that point the road is perhaps 12 or 15 feet above the river and they kept near the further bank.

 

Common Buckeye - Junonia coenia - this will prove to have been among the last butterflies of the season as we are likely to see our first frost before the end of October.

  Glass is tricky to photograph. Afrer ttying it empty and with some colored paper inside, I finally tried putting coffee in the coffee cup. I've got a bunch of these - they were a promotional item for Nescafe over 20 years ago. Being a map freak, I had to have the whole set including matching creamer and sugar bowl.