Environment:
Start Time: 8:15 AM Temperature: 36 degrees Sky: Sunny with variable breeze.
Conditions were, again, too good to ignore this morning so I wolfed down my Cheerios and hit the trail early. It was pretty quiet out there. Not many fishermen in the river or hikers on the trail. Didn’t see a single bicycle. So it’s tough to explain why the birds were so stand-offish. Only one of my Cooper’s Hawk parents was on duty at the nest and it made a dive for the ground and tried to hide from me – today’s featured image. I got a brief glimpse of the back end of a Yellow-rumped Warbler and got a long shot of a group of Blue Jays who were involved in an intense discussion. The Bufflehead Drake (bottom of post) kind of surprised me since I haven’t seen any of them for a little while. He looked lonely.
Sightings:
Birds: Common Goldeneyes, American Coots, Pied-billed Grebes, Hooded Mergansers, Mallards, Gadwalls, Bufflehead, Gulls, Starlings, Red-tailed Hawk, Ospreys, White-crowned Sparrows, Cooper’s Hawk, American Kestrel, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, American Robin, Great Blue Heron, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blue Jays, Crow, Magpie, Mourning Dove, Black-capped Chickadees, Northern Flickers
Critters: Mule Deer, Tree Squirrels, Cabbage White Butterfly
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
