March 2020 IMAGES

 
Karen and I went to Goldwater Lake to photograph Eagles. They didn't show up but other birds gave us some opportunities. You will see the Goldeneye duck.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldeneye_(duck) and the Great Cormorant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant. Blue Herons and other birds that were there for us to enjoy.
Karen captured a neat sequence of the Goldeneye diving, surfacing, and then enjoying a crawdad for his breakfast. Another sequence is of a landing near a fisherman who seemed oblivious.

The one eagle photo was taken in February when my friend Brad and I went to the lake in February. We were a bit too far away to get good photos, at least with my camera. There are two eagles in the photo shown here. The adult is flying below a juvenile perched above. Can you find the juvenile.?

Some Birds on Goldwater Lake

Image Captions

1  Goldwater Lake from the air
2  Great blue heron  in morning light
3  Adult and juvenile eagles
4  Female mallard looking good in morning light
5  Great blue heron watching cormorant fly by
6  Take off
7  Goldeneye with breakfast he just caught
8  Goldeneye zoomed in to show breakfast
9  Same goldeneye
10 Same goldeneye zoomed in so you can see him blinking and get another look at the crawdad
11 Nice wing tip dip on water - Cormorant
12 Great blue heron flying fast and low
13 Old man of the lake.

Cormorant doing a near vertical landing

The fisherman was talking to a friend and never saw the cormorant coming. I wonder if the cormorant knows there may be fish when there are fishing poles in the water.
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