The leap into the open space surrounding the nest is one step.
The next is to safely stick a landing.
This female osprey fledgling seemed as intent on watching my friends and I
as she was in making sure her feet were going to meet the branch at the right angle.
And, yes, she made a great landing!
See the fading of the dark on the beak?
And the more fierce eye?
This 2 year-old bald eagle is well on the way to it’s 3rd year of life at Jordan Lake.
I hope to see some of you at the Eagle Lecture tomorrow at Jordan Lake.
I heard that a blue-headed vireo had been seen at Jordan Lake.
I didn’t even know there was such a vireo.
This morning I was photographing a mixed flock of palm, prairie and pine warblers.
There appeared in this busy flock of “yellow” birds a bird with a startling eye-ring –
hallmark of a vireo.
Another bird got added to my life list: blue-headed vireo.
I do believe the excessive heat here in NC may have gotten to doc…
when I posted the Accipiter photos last night I left off the 3rd shot in the series……..
so, here it is:
As you can see the crow was leaving the tree in a hurry and the hawk was hoping to strike.
The eye of a raptor gleams with its dominance of the skies.
This is an immature Accipiter, most likely a Cooper’s hawk.
It soon got tired of the crows that were pestering it.
The hawk exploded off its perch, twisting through the trees towards the noisy pests.
The crows scattered all over the small cove.
