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Friday, April 4, 2008
3:12:00 PM EDT
Greetings bird lovers!
Yesterday we couldn't wait to get out. We were at the dam around nine o'clock and there were numerous bird watchers already there. I recognized Ron who does bird banding and Dennis an avid photographer and Mark and Oscar and several others. Most were looking at the river where hundreds of coots were mixed with Ruddy Ducks , blue winged teals, gulls, scaups and many others. I caught a shot of the coots all flying at the same time.
Then Dennis offered to show Carolyn and i and Oscar a photo of two eagles on the osprey nest from last fall. We went to his car and saw the photo. Dennis offered to give me a copy next time we see him. On the way back to the river Oscar spotted a pileated
woodpecker. I spent some time trying to get a good shot and came up with this one.
There is another one in the box above.
We had to get going soon after but we came back in the late afternoon and saw the osprey again. I only saw one this time. Paul had his scope set up and i took some pictures through it.
We saw the osprey bring back a fish to the tower and eat it. Paul was interested in seeing the band and i managed a half way decent photo of a couple of the letters on it which I later sent to him. I won't put it on here since it would have to be blown up more in order to see it . Before the osprey finished it's meal something startled it and it flew off. We scanned the skies and then Paul spotted a bald eagle.
We now couldn't see the osprey but moments later it appeared over the eagles head and proceed to dive bomb upon it and eventually scared it off. It returned to the platform minutes later but without any fish in it's talons. There is no sign that I can see that anyone has set up housekeeping yet but we are all hopeful. This morning the bridge to the dam was closed but we went down by lake Cinaiko and spotted a pair of bluebirds coming and going out of their house as well as a great horned owl living in a heron's nest. I'm told that there are two chics but we didn't see them.
Thanks for reading and as usual thanks for your emails. If any of you have blogs I'd love to read them.
Ron
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Osprey still around
Yesterday we couldn't wait to get out. We were at the dam around nine o'clock and there were numerous bird watchers already there. I recognized Ron who does bird banding and Dennis an avid photographer and Mark and Oscar and several others. Most were looking at the river where hundreds of coots were mixed with Ruddy Ducks , blue winged teals, gulls, scaups and many others. I caught a shot of the coots all flying at the same time.
woodpecker. I spent some time trying to get a good shot and came up with this one.
There is another one in the box above.
We had to get going soon after but we came back in the late afternoon and saw the osprey again. I only saw one this time. Paul had his scope set up and i took some pictures through it.
We saw the osprey bring back a fish to the tower and eat it. Paul was interested in seeing the band and i managed a half way decent photo of a couple of the letters on it which I later sent to him. I won't put it on here since it would have to be blown up more in order to see it . Before the osprey finished it's meal something startled it and it flew off. We scanned the skies and then Paul spotted a bald eagle.
We now couldn't see the osprey but moments later it appeared over the eagles head and proceed to dive bomb upon it and eventually scared it off. It returned to the platform minutes later but without any fish in it's talons. There is no sign that I can see that anyone has set up housekeeping yet but we are all hopeful. This morning the bridge to the dam was closed but we went down by lake Cinaiko and spotted a pair of bluebirds coming and going out of their house as well as a great horned owl living in a heron's nest. I'm told that there are two chics but we didn't see them.
Thanks for reading and as usual thanks for your emails. If any of you have blogs I'd love to read them.
Ron
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