Hershey came by today and shared his milk-chocolate bald eagle joy of the morning’s flight with me.
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CategoryJordan Lake Palette: bald eagle 08/23/2018
Doc Ellen’s Jordan Lake Palette
… where doc ellen interprets nature a wee bit differently …
four-year-old male bald eagle on the hunt
sometimes even the trees lose their prominence when the eagles pass through
Jordan Lake Neighborhood, part 2, 6 photos 08-17-2018
The Jordan Lake Neighborhood Roundup, part 2
songbirds and flycatchers
Eastern Phoebe
This medium sized flycatcher was still just long enough for me catch its profile.
Prairie Warbler
This songster was a new addition to my life list. It is a summer breeder here.
Chipping Sparrow
He has a beak that is crammed full with insects.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
The pewee often has a favorite look-out perch branch and will return to it in-between catching flying insects.
This is a pair of wood-pewee fledglings that are playing king-of-the-perch-branch.
Yellow-throated Warbler.
Just how handsome can a bird get?
Carolina Chickadee
The bird to the right is the parent chickadee.
The bird to the left is a newly fledged chickadee – still very awkward in flight.
JL Bald Eagles, H&G nest, 08-15-2018
Hershey
adult male bald eagle at H&G nest, Jordan Lake, NC
doc ellen’s JL Palette 08/14/2018
Doc Ellen’s Jordan Lake Palette
where doc ellen interprets nature a wee bit differently
young river otter
carved solely by the waters and wind of Jordan Lake
JL Neighborhood Roundup, part 1, 6 photos 8/10/2018
I always have so much of Jordan Lake that I want to share!
My emphasis for my media time is usually on the bird life – in particular the raptors.
But by no means do I miss opportunities to photograph the other lives at Jordan Lake.
So, this is part 1 for the current catchup: critters without feathers.
Meet the official North Carolina Reptile: the Eastern Box Turtle
This beautiful box turtle strolled out from under my truck as I was packing up to leave one morning.
I picked him up and carried him, in the same direction he was headed, to an area in the woods off the edge of the parking lot.
The Imperial Moth was well-named: this one was wider than my hand.
They get to be about 4” across in their wingspan.
The Sleepy Orange butterfly.
If the photo was of this butterfly with his wings out flat, you would see the “orange” of its name.
The Swamp Cicada.
This noise maker is an annual cicada: they appear every year. Some cicada species appear every 13 or 17 years.
I really like its brilliant green wing veins.
The Deep Yellow Euchlaena moth.
The angles in the wing structure and the curves in the color patterns make an interesting and pleasing contrast.
Skink tail bling!
Notice that I did not name the specie.
Without a clear photo of the side of the face of a skink, I have no way to know if this is a five-lined skink or an immature broad-headed skink.
doc ellen's journey 