Eurasian Collared-Doves
AmericanEurasian Collared-Dove
Blue-winged Teal
American White Pelican
Male Carolina Wren
American Kestrel in Flight
Carolina Wren
American White Pelican
10-19 through 11-09-16
This was when the weather was quite mild in the fall. The Eurasian Collared-Doves were seen
for the first time not on the ground or on the power lines. This was a rarer shot, so I did my best
to get out of the line of fire of the rising sun so that I could see them well enough in order to get
that beautiful photograph of them in the tree. Fortunately, they trusted me enough to get away from a
large oak tree in order to have a clear shot.
The Blue-winged Teal, our smallest duck made a couple of turns around the lake, so I was as ready
as I could be to get a picture of several of them. Even though they were quite a distance away, Lady Luck was with me, as was the sun.
The first Carolina Wren, an acquaintance, knows me better than the second one, who is generally
across the lake in a residential area. By far, I believe the second shot to be the best one, but how could I refuse the first one?
The American Kestrel male has returned for the winter to his stomping grounds and this picture in
flight was a little sun washed, yet it was necessary to try it.
This American White Pelican was the first of a total of three arrivals. He arrived on October 22 and
rested at Boomer Creek where there is a natural blind. It was advantageous, as this waterbird had no
inkling that I was waiting silently in the wings. There were a few shots of the birds flipping its gullet,
so these are representatives of this first meeting.
