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%
common merganser
lesser scaups
gadwall
whitaker ponds, force lake, a drive-thru smith bybee (too many people), vancouver lake.
gadwalls, ringed-neck, hooded mergansers
yellow-rumped warbler
double-crested cormorant
trying to sneak up on 300 + geese in whats normally a hunting area, doesn’t really work
northern pintails
red-tailed hawk!?! maybe
lot of people in ridgefield today, and a ton of poor decision making while driving too. good stuff
female lesser scaup?
panic!!!
panicking!!!
tidalwave of pintails, shoveler’s and geese in the air all caused by this guy, think its a northern harrier
female northern shoveler
common snipe
killdeer
bald eagles, juvenile and adult, and shitty picture
traffic
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.
horned lark
domestic muscony
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
patio starling’s
whitaker ponds
NW lower river road
vancouver lake with some fog on it
more fog
vancouver lake
ring-necked pheasant
not a whole lot going on today, which was fine. spent the day day-dreaming while driving the auto tour…
northern pintail
ring-necked duck
great blue heron
bald eagle
american bittern
doomsday clouds, or 2012
2011 photo recap – quick edit.
cedar waxwing
yellow-rumped warbler
downy woodpecker
european starling
purple finch
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…
bushtit’s
american robin
cedar waxwings
?
dark-eyed junco
american robin
christmas day at ridgefield…
wood ducks
american wigeons
juvenile tundra swan
more tundra swans
american coot
gadwall!?! I think
juvenile tundra swan vs coyote
