Join Doc Ellen as she explores the Ospreys and their neighbors at Jordan Lake. Learn interesting facts about the osprey, a unique bird species in many ways, and how to observe them.
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Jordan Lake, Haw River 16 minutes after the sun rose … I was tracking a male osprey as he came in over the dam and almost disappeared down into the shadows of the riprap and the sudden glare of the sun. I watched the osprey flare and snatch his fish and then the quiet morning exploded in osprey shrieks and great blue heron gronks. A large light grey shadow was closing in on the osprey. I don’t know if the heron had had an eye on the same fish as the osprey or that the heron took exception to the osprey disturbing his morning fishing. The osprey fled the river with his fish and out over the dam and the heron grumbled his way back to the riprap shoreline.
Jordan Lake: the shadow in the deep shade swiftly became the form of a two-year-old bald eagle in full flight as she traversed the hot mid day sunlight in a gap in the trees. Oh, my.
My blessings and thank you to each and every Mom on this Mother’s Day. May each of you have a moment this day to celebrate all mothers of today and times past. Peace and Grace, Doc Ellen
Jordan Lake Dam, Haw River: I was tracking the great blue heron, hoping it would cross in front of the trees with their fresh light green leaves and give me a nicely composed landscape photo. The heron obliged me and did just that. But, when I got home I found that another critter had managed to get photographed too! Have you found the squirrel yet?
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