Blue Heron tending the nest on Sauvie Island, Oregon
Posts Tagged ‘Nest
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Mar
20
Heron in the rookery…
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Oct
19
perhaps…?
“Some great birds evolved from the raptors” Robert T. Bakker
Touch blurry…Great Blue Heron on a nest in the rookery at Sauvie Island, Oregon
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Sep
17
little peeps…
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Mar
16
atop the nest…
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Mar
16
Osprey…
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Mar
16
Home to roost…
The other day, I mistakenly described numerous nests high in the trees as Eagle’s nests. I had seen several Eagles gliding amongst these trees and perched atop these trees. More knowledgeable birders than I, knew these nests were a Heron Rookery. Today, I ventured back out to the area. I could not get any closer, but I had a slightly more powerful lens and I was able to capture a few pics of the Heron as they hunkered down atop the nests and other Heron arrived with what appeared to be food. The quality of the images isn’t great, but you can see the Heron are indeed occupying the nests.
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Apr
15
Osprey Nest on Columbia River
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Aug
14
Keep your distance!
In my son’s continuing saga of man & insects: while completing a renovation project, Tony came upon these dangerous critters.
Photography: I came upon these 3 vigilant squirrels along a twenty yard piece of shoreline. Their eyes were not focused upon me. They were looking to my left. They were frozen. I took the shots and nary an ear twitched. Perhaps it was something alarming them from my left, or it was me and an ‘if we don’t move, he won’t see us and our hole in the wall’. These were fat, bushy grey squirrels.
For me, the lack of motion and the stillness in the air was intriguing. They seemed to sense something that I was oblivious to. Oh, perhaps it was my wife hung up on an invisible snag for the third time?
My son was atop a roof dismantling a satellite dish and removed the tubing. Inside the moss covered tubing he saw a creation that was tinged green and other worldly. Some how the tubing, which had appeared closed off had been invaded by persistent creatures that constructed a nest.
