Haha, I love the look on that bird's face in the first picture. He looks so.. regal.
I tried to take a picture of a huge bug I saw crawling over the road last night. The problem was that I was carrying two bags and a laptop at the time and my camera was in the inside pocket of my jacket. By the time I had dropped everything and gotten the camera out, the little bugger had run into the darkness (it was late evening). It was too bad, it could have been an excellent subject for a macro training shot. Fast little bugger too.