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By 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.

By Jordan Lake Dam, post Hurricane Florence, 1 slideshow 09-19-2018

Jordan Lake Dam this morning, post Hurricane Florence and in the midst of many rivers flooding. Where I could, I provided photos of before and after the storm and the ongoing river flooding. The dam is doing EXACTLY what it was built for: flood control. Without the Jordan Lake dam and reservoir, the flooding downstream would have been even more devastating. My thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers for helping to keep us safe and mitigating the wrath of the hurricane.

 

By JL Raptor: Ranger Cove 07/09/2018
Ranger Cove
 
As I pulled into the parking area, I could see an osprey doing screaming dives into the treetops of the cove.
That kind of angry dive usually meant an eagle was intruding.
I gathered up my camera and headed down the path toward the water.
Got half-way down and an eagle screamed somewhere above me.  I froze in place.
Eagle got quiet and so did the osprey. I thought the eagle had flown out.
I finally eased down to the water’s edge.  
My friend eased down beside me as the osprey made another screaming run at the eagle.
Here is what exploded over our heads.  I honestly don’t know which adult eagle it is.