There are 11 different species in this stroll. Two of the species I don’t often see at Jordan Lake: the winter wren and the rusty blackbird. Enjoy the wandering!
belted kingfisher
TagJordan Lake: Lady Kingfisher
Momma Belted Kingfisher was determined to get a fish and I was just as determined to photograph her fishing!
Jordan Lake Dam update, 5 photos 09/28/2018
I realized this evening that I have been concentrating on water, water, flooding water everywhere.
So, let’s catch up with some of the other events in the Jordan Lake Dam Neighborhood.
While trying to catch the fog lifting above the long leaf pine meadow, a flock of double-crested cormorants graced the rising sun.
A fledgling bald eagle, one of this year’s babies, seemed to challenge the sun and flew into the east.
Here is an adult bald eagle, very intent on something way across the main lake, near where the Haw River joins the Middle Creek.
If her stout beak had not protruded way past the clump of leaves where she perched, I would have missed the female belted kingfisher.
And then there are the small winged creatures, like this common buckeye butterfly, that try to sense if I am to be avoided or dismissed.
Jordan Lake Neighborhood for March 2, 2017, 7 photos
The ospreys have returned from South America – welcome home.
One year old bald eagle looking fierce in the morning light.
A very cold eastern bluebird, who like me, was wondering where the warm weather went.
Great blue heron stalking through the shoreline bushes.
Belted kingfisher surveying the waters for his next fish.
The small pied-billed grebe is named after the way the black ring bisects his beak.
The morning light illuminates this Bonaparte’s gull.
blue hour kingfisher
The color in this photo is natural…I took the photo during the “blue hour”.
Actually the “hour” is about 30 minutes long.
The beautiful blues occur twice a day and are fleeting
and even though the colors happen they are not always photographable.
I usually catch these conditions in the fall and early winter.
my error
I had not set the proper shutter speed to catch a sharp image of this kingfisher.
Yet I liked how my error softened the dawn’s glow in the bird’s wings.
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