not a very good pic. Pretty sure it’s a cottonmouth.
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not a very good pic. Pretty sure it’s a cottonmouth.
It it ain't a cottonmouth, it keeps its chipstack because everything thinks its a cottonmouth.
First time I've seen one of these in about 25 years.
Redtail minding its own business and being harassed by the 
crows...
crows...
funny how it comes back around when crows get harassed by smaller birdsRedtail minding its own business and being harassed by the
New cam has a microscope feature and it's pretty fun. Also has GPS, thermometer, altimeter and clock that logs altitude/coords, time, temp with each photo.
So I have this long-time friend who is quite an enthusiastic amateur photographer and takes tons of photos with many featuring our local wildlife.
Couple of days ago she ran across a gathering of Eagles where someone had dumped a bunch of cod bits and pieces.
Here's one of them hogging a good piece all to himself.
There were lots of carcasses available and some of the birds grabbed various bits and found a rock to eat from, all quite peacefully.
But, when food is involved there are often disagreements over who gets what, who is first, who gets the best spot and so forth. Sometimes they get all dramatic too.
As one might expect, a bounty such as this attracts other scavengers, such as crows, ravens and turkey vultures.
Here's a crow telling off a vulture for being dumb enough to eat seaweed.
Cheeky bugger.
And here's the vulture heeding the advice from the crow and heading off to find some real food.
But he couldn't resist one look back, just in case the mean old crow had left.
Lastly, here's my friend goofing around and featuring what she calls her "40's" look.
Not bad for a 73 year old woman, eh?
And her name is Karen and she was Miss Campbell River in 1966.
My girlfriend came second to her. LOL
She has taken some awesome pics, including this final one.
Sunrise makes the water quite reddish and the reflection on the heron looks pink.
Take care.
Couple of days ago she ran across a gathering of Eagles where someone had dumped a bunch of cod bits and pieces.
Here's one of them hogging a good piece all to himself.
There were lots of carcasses available and some of the birds grabbed various bits and found a rock to eat from, all quite peacefully.
But, when food is involved there are often disagreements over who gets what, who is first, who gets the best spot and so forth. Sometimes they get all dramatic too.
As one might expect, a bounty such as this attracts other scavengers, such as crows, ravens and turkey vultures.
Here's a crow telling off a vulture for being dumb enough to eat seaweed.
Cheeky bugger.
And here's the vulture heeding the advice from the crow and heading off to find some real food.
But he couldn't resist one look back, just in case the mean old crow had left.
Lastly, here's my friend goofing around and featuring what she calls her "40's" look.
Not bad for a 73 year old woman, eh?
And her name is Karen and she was Miss Campbell River in 1966.
My girlfriend came second to her. LOL
She has taken some awesome pics, including this final one.
Sunrise makes the water quite reddish and the reflection on the heron looks pink.
Take care.
Great eagle photos Hump!
Up in Yakutat, AK there's an old logging barge dock a couple of miles outside of town where everyone, including the lodges dump their fish, moose, bear, deer carcases.
We went out there one time to check it out (You can see bears out there sometimes) and it was low tide.
We walked up to the edge and looked over and spooked a flock of at least 50-60 bald eagles chowing down, they all took off at the same time, it sounded like a helicopter taking off.
Bald Eagles up there are as plentiful as crows.
One other time we were headed out to Harlequin lake to check out the glacier ice burgs.
Its a 30mi old dirt road the Army left behind during WWII.
We got pretty far out there and while driving we looked up at the top of this big cottonwood and there was an eagle's nest, it was huge, about the size of a small spa.
We stopped to check it out and there was a fledgling sitting on the edge looking down at us, pretty cool.
All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I see something coming in — It's mom with a big pink salmon in her talons coming in with dinner, she landed in the nest and then we could hear more fledglings squawking for their share.
We all stood there speechless.
I looked at my friends and said "now that right there was a National Geographic moment!"
I'm stocked, headed back up for 10 days in Sept. after missing out last year for obvious reasons.
Up in Yakutat, AK there's an old logging barge dock a couple of miles outside of town where everyone, including the lodges dump their fish, moose, bear, deer carcases.
We went out there one time to check it out (You can see bears out there sometimes) and it was low tide.
We walked up to the edge and looked over and spooked a flock of at least 50-60 bald eagles chowing down, they all took off at the same time, it sounded like a helicopter taking off.
Bald Eagles up there are as plentiful as crows.
One other time we were headed out to Harlequin lake to check out the glacier ice burgs.
Its a 30mi old dirt road the Army left behind during WWII.
We got pretty far out there and while driving we looked up at the top of this big cottonwood and there was an eagle's nest, it was huge, about the size of a small spa.
We stopped to check it out and there was a fledgling sitting on the edge looking down at us, pretty cool.
All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I see something coming in — It's mom with a big pink salmon in her talons coming in with dinner, she landed in the nest and then we could hear more fledglings squawking for their share.
We all stood there speechless.
I looked at my friends and said "now that right there was a National Geographic moment!"
I'm stocked, headed back up for 10 days in Sept. after missing out last year for obvious reasons.
Female American Kestrel in the backyard last night.
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Male Monarch freshly emerged from his chrysalis letting his wings dry in the sun.
I have seen in my backyard more monarchs then in the Ellwood preserve last several yearsMale Monarch freshly emerged from his chrysalis letting his wings dry in the sun.
i don’t think you have these out west...
shell was about 14-15”... wouldn’t stick its head out for me though...
canal/river 10’ away in either direction...
