Lake Hennessey

The weather has been great this week and I'm taking advantage of it. This morning, I went to Lake Hennessey, and hiked around the northwest shoreline, which is only accessible on foot (or non motorized boat). Once again, I found myself muttering, "If I only had a telephoto lens."


There were numerous groups of waterfowl, such as bufflehead ducks, pied grebes, western grebes, mallards, coots, double crested cormorants, Canada geese, great blue herons, and uso's.

I also saw red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, turkey vultures (TV's in birding lingo) and a northern harrier.

I was watching a great blue heron who was joined by an otter. The following four pictures were taken through my binoculars - pretty crude photography, but I was amazed and had to try something.


Then three TV's joined the party. It was quite a gathering of wildlife all in a matter of 3-4 minutes.
Well, I certainly will be returning to Lake Hennessey where it is said there are also eagles and osprey.