Environment:
Start Time: 3:40 PM Temperature: 41 degrees Sky: Heavy cloud-filtered sunshine
Winter is finally starting to make its appearance. My fear is that it may be too late for some of the trees as demonstrated in the image below of a Starling perching in a Cottonwood that appears (to me) to be well into the Spring budding process. When the cold eventually shows up I don’t think things are going to go well for this – and quite a few other – tree. But there are still birds to be photographed. Posted here is a White-crowned Sparrow who waited patiently for me to take his photo. Today’s featured image (above) is of a Mallard Drake who I watched drifting in the current of the Arkansas River with its back to an approaching rapid. I set up to see how he would handle the situation. It kind of surprised me when he took off in the nick of time and flew about twenty feet upriver and started drifting down again.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Common Goldeneye, Gulls, Canada Geese, Common Merganser, Starlings, White-crowned Sparrows, Great Blue Heron, American Kestrel
Critters: Mule Deer
Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm
