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Saturday, April 19, 2008
10:21:00 PM EDT
Hi Bird lovers. My young friend Brooklyn is with the man of her dreams a man who just returned from Iraq. He is very nice and she is visiting him in Utah. While she's been gone we've had a couple of hikes of note. The first one was Thursday morning when we went to islands of peace park in Fridley. Last year there was an eagle's nest but we heard that it failed to produce any chics so we found it again this year and could see the female presumably sitting on chicks while the male was out hunting. When he didn't bring anything back he took a rest in a nearby tree. In the mean time we got fairly close to some wood ducks which is unusual since they like to keep their distance.
We saw many other birds down there but shots were of varying quality so I won't include them here. I saw a red tailed hawk and a wide variety of ducks. I thought i saw an albino duck but my picture as i say was not that good.
I had to go to work after that but later in the day towards evening in fact we went to the dam where I was in search of bluebirds. I got a couple of pictures
As well as a few photos of some deer. 
I had found an online blog for owners of my particular camera and on it a man told about some photos he took of the moon just the day before.
I have tried with varying success over the years to get good moon shots but his idea of waiting to just one hour after sunset was a good one so I got some halfway decent shots. Here's one.
Yesterday and today were just too cold and damp for hiking but this afternoon as I was writing some emails Carolyn ran in to tell me that the cedar waxwings were back at our crabapple tree so I went out and got a few shots.
Well folks that's as exciting as it gets right now but spring is still young.
Hope that you are all well and as usual I love hearing from you.
Ron
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10:21:00 PM EDT
Some Recent hikes
We saw many other birds down there but shots were of varying quality so I won't include them here. I saw a red tailed hawk and a wide variety of ducks. I thought i saw an albino duck but my picture as i say was not that good.
I had to go to work after that but later in the day towards evening in fact we went to the dam where I was in search of bluebirds. I got a couple of pictures
I have tried with varying success over the years to get good moon shots but his idea of waiting to just one hour after sunset was a good one so I got some halfway decent shots. Here's one.
Hope that you are all well and as usual I love hearing from you.
Ron
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