Sunday, December 30, 2012

Big Birds 12-28 & 29, 2012

At Chelsea farmhouse office on Friday, we saw a Canada goose of a different color! A group was on the other side of the pond and one had a white neck and multicolor head.... 
 Could see back of neck and head while it was nibbling....
 Marching to the pond....

Eagle Saturday!!

Near the Park office in the AM, this lovely eagle juvie landed in a tree...
 He then flew to end of branch....

 Taking off for the River....
We ran outside to see where the juvie landed, so here's a panorama where he was taking off from the left of the river center spit of banking....
 Here's a "key".... 
1. A second juvie who stayed on the mud spit
                          2. The juvie who had left the office tree
                          3. Displaced solar panels for osprey cam
                          4. The osprey nest platform where we saw the pelican!!!

Here's a closer pic of juvie, Polka-Dotty, probably looking for fish...
Surprise, surprise! An adult came to a tree across the road from the office just before quitting time!
We didn't see our nesting pair on the way out.

2 comments:

Costume Lady said...

LOL...That Juvie looks as if he has been mud bogging:)
The adult eagle is just so majestic and I think he knows it!

magpie said...

Oh Loretta...
You must know I will say:
Fantastic Pictures, Thank you for bringing these to us to enjoy also!