Environment:
Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 50 degrees Sky: Sunshine.
It’s been a week since my last post and not a lot has changed out on the trail. That is if you don’t count the amount of new foliage covering the trees. Things are really green. Most of the birds I saw today were keeping their distance. The Yellow-breasted Chat pictured here was well into the weeds (and hiding behind a stick) making for a so-so shot. The featured image is a Blue Jay deciding to launch into the air just as I snapped the shutter. He gets the featured slot due to the high action. Neither the Red-tailed Hawks nor the Cooper’s Hawks appear to have hatched yet – I was hoping the recent rain had helped the little ones grow.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Wood Ducks, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, American Robins, Mourning Doves, Red-winged Blackbirds, Wrens, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Yellow-breasted Chat, Blue Jays, Bullock’s Orioles, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Barn Swallows, Black-capped Chickadee, Western Meadowlark
Critters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer, Miller Moths, Prairie Dog, Ornate Tree Lizard, Cottontail Rabbit
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
