Environment:
Start Time: 6:20 AM Temperature: 70 degrees Sky: Mostly Sunshine with light haze.
Today’s tour of Rock Canyon was mostly unproductive in terms of captured images. There was plenty going on but nobody wanted to be on the Internet. The Osprey nest at the river bend was empty. All the trainees were either perching nearby or up in the sky perfecting their flight technique. One of the student flyers is today’s featured image. I even saw this one make a practice dive (with good form) but it pulled up well above the river surface. Pictured here is what I believe to be a Hairy Woodpecker – female.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Doves, Ospreys, Starlings, Great Blue Heron, Barn Swallows, Red-tailed Hawk, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flickers, Cooper’s Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, Spotted Sandpipers, Blue Grosbeak, Common Grackles, Yellow Warbler
Critters: Grasshoppers, Mule Deer, Cabbage White Butterflies, Rock Squirrels, Prairie Dogs
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
