never a good sign when I walk about 2 miles and never pull out the camera… there was a bit of bird activity, unfortunately all of it was about 40 feet in the air. but did get to try out my new graduated ND filter (last 2 shots), and yes that sounds real boring, probably is but I’m stoked on it…

ps: dear weather/sun please stop acting like its august and put a fucking cloud in the sky, really sick of waiting for the last 2 hours of the day to go out with the camera.

morning walk around wapato with Michele of nature nut notes. lots of sounds, but not too much to see, either way, a nice morning walk

went back to troutdale last night, trying to get some better shots…

troutdale late crew… cause after all these years I’m still not an early morning person, so a 5:45am sunrise is way out of the question for me. 8:00pm works great though

brown-headed cowbirds

mourning dove

northern mockingbird – there are only a handful of photos that I have shot that I’m really really stoked one… and this is one of them

lazuli bunting – only photo I could get before it was gone.

black-throated sparrow

thought they where all gone, but I guess not… watched them all, one by one appear from the trees.

trying to catch up with this week so far… lots of sun out there! which is making for a lot of shit photos. strange problem to have in oregon! but I’m hoping for more of a transitional period, not this jump to summer blazing sun crap… but anywho

ridgefield:

long-billed dowitcher!?!

whitaker ponds: violet-green swallows

smith bybee: western tanagers