/// whitaker ponds again…
February 5th, 2012 by admin
red-tailed hawk

american bittern correction green heron, first one I’ve seen. awesome… thanks for the correction nature nut notes

another one cropped at 100%


red-tailed hawk

american bittern correction green heron, first one I’ve seen. awesome… thanks for the correction nature nut notes

another one cropped at 100%

been almost a week since I’ve pulled out the camera, decided to roll east on the washington side.
and to start it off… I have no idea what this first bird is! anyone know? I do now, thanks NW Nature Nut.

killdeer

graylag goose and swan goose

swan goose

varied thrush

western meadowlark
last weekend of free time, corporate american offered me a job! and I’m taking it… otherwise a lot of activity birding wise over the weekend, not so much the actual birds, but the birders. tualatin river nwr was pretty full on saturday… guess there’s a goose there. (ha) got bummed too many people for me. over to whitaker ponds for sunset. sunday went to smith bybee, greeted by a almost full parking lot, didn’t even bother getting out of the car. so over to vancouver lake to drive straight into the fog. was super pretty, and did get to see a ring-necked pheasant… amazing colors on that animal, most colorful bird I have seen so far… really liking this sun in winter thing that’s happening

NW lower river road

vancouver lake with some fog on it

more fog

vancouver lake

dont have a backyard, only a small patio on the second floor of the apartment. weather was real nice and crappy today, but strangely lots of birds in pretty big groups… didn’t get a photo of the group of starlings hanging on the patio railing, and what I think was a cooper’s hawk pausing for a brief second in the parking lot below. but its was pretty nice to be sitting in the living room with the camera on the tripod sipping on some coffee. relaxed bird lurking…

american robin

cedar waxwings

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dark-eyed junco

american robin
