February 7th, 2015

Jen, Amanda (Jen's co-worker), and I went on the Raptor Road Trip, with the Portland Audubon Society. We went to Sauvie Island to look for the birds of prey. The early morning weather was pretty terrible but it ended up being quite a beautiful day.

Note: all the speck in the sky in this photo are actually birds....

We saw Sandhill Cranes, they like to winter on the island.

The fog rolled back in later in the morning.

oops... I mean frog.... (a Pacific Tree Frog maybe?)

Here is Jen spotting some birds!

She had to take a closer at some birds we found.

These decoys fooled us! If we were birds then we would be toast because, the hunter came while we were looking!

We did find a raptor close enough for me to get some photos of! Here is a juvenile Bald Eagle. I think it is a 2nd year.

All the other raptors we saw were display birds from the Audubon Society.

Very small female Great Horned Owl

Turkey Vulture!

A Raven! Okay a raven isn't a raptor but they are really cool!

We had a good day birding. We did see quite a few Red-tailed Hawks, adult, and juvenile  Bald Eagles, but, none of them were close enough for me to photograph.

Hope you have a great night!

January 7th, 2015

I had a grand plan of getting up early and going out into the fog that was forecast for our area. I failed.  I didn't get up in time, I did however, get this photo from my balcony.

I went back to the pond at Rood Bridge Park today to try to get some better duck photos.

There were six ducks.... why were there only six ducks, you ask.

This was patrolling the pond.

(Please excuse the terribleness of these photos, I only have a 300mm lens, and it was very far away.)

Here are some ducks:

This guys black bill makes me laugh for some reason!

Even if my duck hunting didn't go as planned, it was a beautiful afternoon!

and this was my view driving home!

Yes, I did pull over to take this photo!

Hope you have a great night!!