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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Chilly Winter Mornings Still Hang On


                                                            Male Canvasback


                                                              "Quiet--Fishing Zone"


                                                         Great Blue Heron Hops


                                                                "Stealth Mode"


                                                            "Come to Me, My Sweet"


                                                                  "Belting It Out"


                                                          Male Bufflehead in Flight


                                                      Bufflehead Pair(Male on Bottom)


                                                        Male Red-winged Blackbird


                                                                       Ditto


                                                                  "The Limbo"


                                                         Cedar Waxwing Portrait


                                                               American Robin


                                                         Northern Cardinal

Mornings were quite chilly, especially with that biting wind this week.  The birds say that it is spring,
but I have to disagree with them at the moment.  Hopefully, they are holding off on laying those eggs,
as it is not time.  Biological clocks will be off again this year, as the Arctic blast is still here.  Just ask
the folks in the north...

Monday, February 17, 2014


                                                              Great Blue Heron


                                                                 Ditto, Fishing


                                              American Goldfinch, Non-Breeding Plumage


                                                       Male Red-winged Blackbird


                                                                       Ditto


                                                                 Ditto, In Flight


                                                               Ditto, Upon Winter Fare


                                                                 American Robin


                                                                 Dark-eyed Junco


                                                  Male Red-winged Blackbird Choose Nest


                                                          Great Blue Heron Stretches


                                                            Great Blue Heron in Wind


                                                          Great Blue Heron Portrait

51 degrees/partly cloudy/0810-0845

25 mph wind gusts made it rather troublesome to hold camera steady for focus, as well as the chill.
However, as would be so, some interesting and rare shots were obtained, especially the male Red-winged Blackbird choosing a nest for his would-be mate.  Isn't natural life impressive?

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Dead of Winter


                                                                 Mourning Dove


                                                       Snow Covered Sheaf of Grass


                                        Great Blue Heron(front), Mallard Pair and American
                                        Coot(center), Green-winged Teal(rear)  


                                                     Snow Covered Thistle Flowers


                                                      Female Red-winged Blackbird


                                                           Male Eastern Bluebird


                                                              Trumpeter Swan


                                                                         Ditto

19-21 degrees/0815-0930 hrs./partly cloudy

This has been a very cold week, but there are high probabilities that we are in a warming trend, perhaps even for early mornings.  This is the fare for the week, even with a couple of days of a little snow.
See?  Oklahoma gets snowfall, too.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Life at White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX with Deb, 2014

http://aviannovice.hubpages.com/hub/Life-at-White-Rock-Lake-in-Dallas-TX-with-Deb-2014

White Rock Lake Denizens


                                                      Chinese Crested Goose(Domestic)


                                                                          Ditto


                                                               Ring-billed Gulls


                                            American White Pelican with Breeding Plumage


                                                      American White Pelican in Flight


                                                                          Ditto


                                                            Male Great-tailed Grackle


                                                    American White Pelicans Socializing


                                                               Male Greater Scaup


                                                                 Great White Pelican


                                                 Ditto, with American Coot Under Branch


                                                       Female Great-tailed Grackle


                                                           Chinese Crested Goose


                                                              Water "Frozen" in Time


                                                 Brown Chinese Crested Goose(Domestic)


73 degrees on January 31, imagine that?  I didn't have to imagine, as I was there in living color.
This was my first time in Dallas, just a small part of it spent at this wonderfully reading lake.