Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Winter Wonderland at Boomer Lake
Great Blue Heron Bridging Ice and Land
Ring-billed Gulls on Ice
Assorted Ducks in Channel
Bald Eagle
Ditto
"Ready for Liftoff"
Bald Eagle in Flight
The Mated Pair
A Murder of American Crows
American Goldfinch
Great Blue Heron Backlit
Two Pied-billed Grebes(top)
Ruddy Duck(bottom)
Female Ruddy Duck
Ditto
Northern Cardinal
American Robin
This is three days worth of work. The temperatures have been hovering between 23 and 36 degrees today and I was out from 0910 to 1130. I must truly be a glutton for punishment, as the winds were between 20 and 25 mph, to make matters even worse. It was much more pleasant two days ago when it was 21 degrees with 15 mph winds. Don't ask me what is really pleasant when it comes to biting cold, because there is nothing. However, if it weren't for sheer foolhardiness or the need to obtain pictures for my followers and readers of "Life at Boomer Lake with Deb," I might not have been out there, other than I believe that I have gone beyond serious birder to twitcher. A twitcher has an innate NEED to seek out birds, and might even be somewhat obsessed. Don't answer that! Later today or tomorrow I will publish "Life at Boomer Lake with Deb," and if you'd like more information on these pictures, you'll find it there. You'll just have to wait until then...
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Pansies
Note Bufflehead Making Diving on Right
Northern Mockingbird
Ditto, with Fruit(This one's for you, Kelly!)
Canada Goose Pair
Female Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Duck Bathing
These pictures were obtained yesterday, when it was much more pleasant than this morning's 39 degrees, with unknown windchill. The wind was 20 mph, so I wager this morning's 'chill was somewhere in the low 20's. It was actually painful, so I wasn't out long today.
Be kind to a bird. Remember to fill your feeders as we get steady freezing temperatures, and water is also necessary. Just because it is cold, doesn't mean that birds don't dehydrate, too, just like us.
Friday, November 29, 2013
Waterbirds and Songbirds of Fall
Ruddy Duck
Female Canvasback, top
Female Ruddy Duck
Male Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Female Bufflehead
One male Bufflehead Fighting Over Female
Bufflehead Group
Male Bufflehead
Male Buffleheads
Male Bufflehead Exerting Authority
How Buffleheads Leave the Water
Goldfinch, Non-breeding Plumage
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Double-crested Cormorant Group
"Coming in for a Landing"
Partial Flock of Canada Geese
Sunny/29-43 degrees/light and Variable Winds/0745-1015 hrs
A beautiful post-Thanksgiving day, full of revelry at Boomer Lake. The only one NOT in attendance today was the Belted Kingfisher. They must be out of town for the holiday.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Mallard Pair
Mallard Hen(left) and Ruddy Duck Hen
Female Bufflehead
Double-crested Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorants "Snags" a Drink
More Double-crested Cormorants
Cormorant in the Water
Double-crested Cormorant in Flight
Double-crested Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorant Wing Drying
Pied-billed Grebes, Immature on Left
Double-crested Cormorant
House Sparrows
Belted Kingfisher
Ditto, in Flight
Northern Mockingbird
Canvasback
0745-0945/partly cloudy/31-40 degrees/15 mph winds
I saw a group of Canvasbacks arrive on the lake this morning, which is the first time that I have seen them this season. Today, I concentrated on the Cormorant Clan, as they just happened to be there, and I got a number of humorous shots. I saw an immature Pied-billed Grebe for the first time, and as you can see, it has a streaked head. There are now two Kingfishers on the lake, a male and a female, though on different parts of the lake. Perhaps they will pair up.
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