Environment:
Start Time: 7:20 AM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Wildfire haze filtered sunshine.
The Osprey were busy again today, though not as busy as yesterday. The real activity was all the gazillion tiny flying bugs that seemed to be everywhere. Those little black dots all over the picture at the bottom of this post are not spots on my lens – they are bugs. I’m not sure how the birds can stand flying through that. The two high points of today’s walk are 1) I got a couple of shots of a (maybe two) Great Blue Heron and 2) a bunch of daddy Red-winged Blackbirds were ripping through a patch of Wild Sunflowers making for some colorful shots.
Sightings:
Birds: Ducks, Mallards, Gulls, Snowy Egrets, Killdeer, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, Ospreys, Double Crested Cormorants, Starlings, Common Grackles, Phoebe, Wren, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Robins, Barn Swallows
Critters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, Mosquitoes, Tree Squirrels, Cottontail Rabbit, Widow Skimmers, millions of flying bugs
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
