nature’s ratio:
4.5 month old immature osprey
4.5 billion year old mature moon
birds
Categorygreat egret dawn
the great egret, brilliant white, glowed in the golden hour light of the dawn
sunshine dollop
Another small gift this morning.
In the darker shadows of the trees I found this dollop of sunshine.
The yellow warbler was darting about looking for caterpillars and insects.
a new one for doc
A small package, um, bird was a great surprise today.
I found this yellow-throated warbler up high in the canopy at the lake.
This species is uncommon here, but sure a lot of colorful fun.
I was wrong!
It is a rare day at the lake when I don’t hear a pileated woodpecker and its partner.
What is also rare is to actually see one of these large and secretive birds.
Then today, after seeing not one, but two, I found out that I have been repeating a myth about these birds:
I had thought the cartoon character Woody the Woodpecker was modeled on a pileated woodpecker.
Alas, I was wrong. The real bird was an acorn woodpecker.
See the NPR story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101665227
nobody won
This time it was an adult eagle that pursued the immature osprey.
The osprey made several swoops, dives and tight turns, but ended up dropping the fish.
It flashed past the eagle who chased it all the way to the lake’s surface.
The eagle never caught up to the fish.
Neither bird got to have a meal.
The catfish can be seen just below the bow of the eagle’s right wing.
doc ellen's journey 