Some great pictures for the Summer.

Hey everybody!

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I have been really enjoying the Summer weather. We took a vacation to Ashland. I saw two life birds, an Acorn Woodpecker and a Western Kingbird!

I have a whole bunch of cool pictures to share from the summer.

A house finch enjoying some sunflower.

A silhouetted song sparrow.

Picturesque grass.

A female Mallard quacking at me.

We saw this strange bee group. Any ideas why they are on the ground like this? Please let me know!

A pretty little ladybug

This is a near perfect shot! A rainbow going around the sun in a perfect circle! I forget what you call this.

A big worm!

A little Annas hummer.

A daylily in our yard.

A male Annas hummer

A juvenile dark-eyed junco!

Black-headed grosbeaks have become regulars.

One of the juvenile red-tailed hawks from the nest in Greenway park! This guy was looking straight at me! They look really healthy!

An Osprey over Emigrant Lake in Ashland.

An Acorn woodpecker! A life bird! I am pleased at the way this turned out!

Enjoy the Summer!

Red-tailed hawks growing fast.

The red-tailed hawk babies around the Portland area are growing fast! Check this out!

These are the two red-tail babies from the raptor cam in Downtown Portland! They are almost adults!

This is one of the red-tail babies in greenway park just at the edge of the nest on the left side. They are getting big too!

Here is some fur picked off a rodent and tossed to the ground.

This puzzles me. Any ideas what bird this wing picked clean tossed under the red-tail nest belongs to?

Enjoy your weekend!

Close encounters at the wetlands.

Yesterday afternoon we payed a short visit to Koll wetlands. As soon as we got out of the car and walked to the edge of the pond there was a red-tailed hawk that swooped down in a mudflat near a killdeer. When he saw us the hawk took flight. We were worried he grabbed one of the killdeer but he ended up only getting a talon full of weeds. Although he only got plants the killdeer were calling rapidly to one another; "Killdeer, Killdeer". They were calling to each other the whole time we were there. Since the killdeer were disoriented I was able to get a rare up close encounter with the bird!

Enjoy!

Hello Mrs. killdeer!

Cool! That's a pintail!

Mrs. killdeer again.

Pintail, a mallard and short-billed dowitchers.

Lots of wigeon!

More wigeon. Also a female Eurasian wigeon! (bottom left).

The male cinnamon teal.

Look who's coming in!

Huh?

Oh no!

Two red-tailed hawks!

Hello!

No don't go in the parking lot!

What?

I can't quite tell what these are.

Me walking up to the male killdeer didn't even phase him! This is not zoomed in!

Bird list for the visit:

• Killdeer
  
• Red-tailed hawk
• Canvasback
• Bufflehead
  
• Western Canada goose
• Cackling goose
• Norther pintail
• American wigeon
• Gadwall
• Mallard
• Great-blue heron
• American coot
• Ruddy duck
• Ring-necked duck
• Greater scaup
• Lesser scaup
• Green-winged teal
• Cinnamon teal
• Northern shoveler
• Eurasian wigeon
• Wilson's snipe
• Short-billed dowitcher
• Tree swallow
• Violet-green swallow
  

Have a great weekend!

First red-tail baby!

YAY! The first red-tailed hawk nestling from downtown Portland hatched!!
If you want to see it go to,
http://www.kgw.com/raptorcam/?nvid=226982&live=yes

Raptor cam news!

Check this out! Both the male and the female red-tailed hawk from downtown Portland! I read in my Audubon newsletter that the female has laid three eggs! Yeah!

Just some park and yard photos.

The willow trees are starting to blossom!

Some daffodils.

A dandelion flower.

More flowers.

That dot next to the tree is a red tailed hawk.

Mallards.

A black kitty.

A red tailed hawk nest!

A hawk pellet.

I am proud to present a white breasted nuthatch!

A great blue heron.

A spotted towhee.

Song sparrow.

A robin and goldfinch.

A female red-winged blackbird.

The goldfinches are getting their summer plumage back!