Environment:
Start Time: 7:50 AM Temperature: 41 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine.
If today’s walk were a 1960’s caper film the title would have to be “The Long Shot.” Nobody wanted to get close to me at all. Only the smaller birds (and one squirrel) were willing to sit still long enough to capture but only from a distance. Today’s featured image is probably the best Blue Jay shot I’ve ever taken and this was probably the closest bird of the day. The lady Belted Kingfisher pictured here was perched on the other side of the river in some tangled branches. I’m posting it because I am stunned that it is even in focus. Really the same goes for the two Wrens that close out today’s post. I wish I could have recorded the House Wren’s song but the noise from Highway 96 made that a bad idea.
Sightings:
Birds: Pied-billed Grebes, Gadwalls, Mallards, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Red-breasted Mergansers, Double Crested Cormorants, American Kestrel, American Robins, Cooper’s Hawks, Red-tailed Hawk, White-crowned Sparrows, Northern Flicker, Turkey Vulture, Belted Kingfisher, Mourning Dove, House Wren, Bewick’s Wren, Blue Jay
Critters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dog, Tree Squirrels, Ornate Tree Lizard, Cottontail Rabbit
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
