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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:47:00 PM EDT
Hello again
Well it was a nice but cool day to be out. I started out with my usual Sunday visit to the Ymca then I headed down to the dam and out by Cinaiko lake where I hoped to get some pictures of the blue birds but I saw none. I then headed for the river to see the great horned owl in the Heron rookery and though I saw it the pictures were not worth posting. Next I headed for the dam. There I saw four osprey flying overhead
but none of them were the old fellow from past years. I met a nice middle aged couple on the walkway and the wife happened to be using the exact camera that I had. She loved the Panasonic but was less experienced with it than I so I showed her a few things to make her photographic experience easier. She was grateful. The man spotted a horned grebe so I took a picture of it. later I saw Mark at about the time that our old friend the male from the last 9 years showed up. I took a few pictures and headed home.
Later as we were watching the Masters golf tournament on television I noticed what a bright day it wast turning out to be so we went back to the dam. In addition to seeing Paul with his scope focused on the osprey platform we saw another Paul who works at Wargo nature center. He was interesting to talk to and told me of some upcoming birding events that we might attend.
One of them requires that we ride in canoes and the other will be next week on earth day. We might go we agreed.
There were other bird lovers out today
and we all talked our speculations about the osprey and what might happen here at the dam. As we talked there was a turf battle between our old friend, who I call "the old geezer" and an eagle. The geezer won as he always does. My theory is that this old bird who was damaged by an eagle years ago is now so toughened that I feel sorry for any eagle that gets in his way.
At last we had to go but it was an invigorating day and as I get older I appreciate them more and more.
Ron
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10:47:00 PM EDT
Beautiful cool spring day at the dam
Well it was a nice but cool day to be out. I started out with my usual Sunday visit to the Ymca then I headed down to the dam and out by Cinaiko lake where I hoped to get some pictures of the blue birds but I saw none. I then headed for the river to see the great horned owl in the Heron rookery and though I saw it the pictures were not worth posting. Next I headed for the dam. There I saw four osprey flying overhead
Later as we were watching the Masters golf tournament on television I noticed what a bright day it wast turning out to be so we went back to the dam. In addition to seeing Paul with his scope focused on the osprey platform we saw another Paul who works at Wargo nature center. He was interesting to talk to and told me of some upcoming birding events that we might attend.
One of them requires that we ride in canoes and the other will be next week on earth day. We might go we agreed.
There were other bird lovers out today
At last we had to go but it was an invigorating day and as I get older I appreciate them more and more.
Ron
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