Jordan Lake State Park

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By Jordan Lake Bald Eagle Nest Reports & Note; 5 photos
A note about Keeping ALL of Us Safely Together:  Please check back on Monday … I am working on a Keeping-In-Touch plan if the coronavirus keeps us from the lake …
H&G Nest has TWO chicks.
Kinda hard to see, but the two dark lumps at the brim of the nest and between Mom Godiva and the trunk are chicks.
Dad Petruchio at First Nest seems to be as confused about the way the world is atilt as we are.
One of the chicks at First Nest … BIG isn’t it
Both of the chicks at First Nest
From left to right is one of the chicks and then Dad Petruchio;
see what looks like a piece of typing paper above Dad and where the chick is staring… that is Mom Kate’s tail.

By Jordan Lake Dam, Haw River: Quiet Moment for You

I was trying to choose my photos for tonight’s posting and stopped searching when I got to this Carolina chickadee from this morning.  I paused and looked at the softness of the almost spring in the pinks of the redbud tree blossoms and the elegant contrast of the small bird’s black and white plumage.  Thought: we could all do with a quiet moment in these days of stress.  So, take a minute and just be, just be with the little chickadee as he too paused in his day.  Peace and Grace, Doc Ellen

By Jordan Lake, Haw River: That is MY Spot…

The great blue herons are sorting out where the best fishing spots are within the riprap.  The heron on the left is a juvenile, hatched last year.  The heron on the far right is an adult and I think it is a female.  The middle heron, who’s priority is evident while he eats and ignores the sparring of the other two, is a mature male great blue heron.  The juvenile is using his crown feathers in a raised display, hoping to get the smaller heron to back off.  It didn’t work.  Right as I got to the end of the sequence, a 4th (unseen great blue heron) dove into the middle of the other three and they all scattered.