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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fairly typical day

A fairly typical fall day today.  I actually got for a couple of walks with the weather improving as the day wore on…

Eagles on the flats

on the first walk I noticed quite a few Bald Eagles on the flats, but even as I watched, large numbers were flying in my direction – that usually means a disturbance of some kind and sure enough, a little while later a fisherman appeared walking across the flats.

after

not an eagle in sight after he passed.

In the Eagle Tree

a number of those eagles landed in the ‘eagle tree’…here is one…

Spot the eagle

with four in this picture, all well camouflaged with the foliage that is hanging on.  There were a lot of small birds through out the park path today, Junco’s, Towhee and Song Sparrow.  Robin’s, a lot of Varied Thrush (I guess the snow in the mountains has sent them down to our level), Steller’s Jay and Northern Flicker were all busy in various berry bushes.  In another spot it was a large mixed flock of Bushtits, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Black-capped chickadees and even Red-breasted Nuthatch – unfortunately none co-operated for any decent pictures!

Common Mergansers

large numbers of Common Merganser have been around the last few days, joining the Mallard and American Wigeon.

Snow on Woodside

snow again on Mt. Woodside, as well as the other local hills..

Rainbow, ducks and eagle

a lingering shower created a rainbow…

another look

while a ‘kettle’ of eagles formed overhead.

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