I took a little drive up to Lake
Berryessa today, even though it was cold and gray. On the way, I stopped to check out these Turkey Vultures.
There were about 10 sitting around, maybe waiting for the air to warm up.
What a face you have!
I learned that vultures can turn their heads 180 degrees like an owl!
Next stop was for this Red Tailed Hawk.
From the little parking lot at Acorn Beach, I could see two eagles in the same spot I've seen them twice before, last year.
Canada Geese will inherit the earth, or at least all its golf courses.
This part of the lake has many coves and little islands. I saw an otter at this spot.
I didn't see any Ospreys today, so I guess they haven't arrived yet, or at least there was no sign of them fiddling with their nests. This looks like an Osprey nest at the
top of this dead pine trunk.
Another lake view. It is so quiet here on a winter weekday, with hardly a car even on the highway.
A Western Grebe was doing it's underwater flying for fish.
OK, "
Aguila Nora", this one's for you. These two Bald Eagles were perched a long way across the water, and even though it is a telephoto shot, it is also cropped and enlarged a lot.
This is how they really looked through my camera. Well, that about wraps it up for this year. Happy New Year, friends and family!
Next stop was for this Red Tailed Hawk.
From the little parking lot at Acorn Beach, I could see two eagles in the same spot I've seen them twice before, last year.
Canada Geese will inherit the earth, or at least all its golf courses.
This part of the lake has many coves and little islands. I saw an otter at this spot.
I didn't see any Ospreys today, so I guess they haven't arrived yet, or at least there was no sign of them fiddling with their nests. This looks like an Osprey nest at the top of this dead pine trunk.
Another lake view. It is so quiet here on a winter weekday, with hardly a car even on the highway.
A Western Grebe was doing it's underwater flying for fish.
OK, "Aguila Nora", this one's for you. These two Bald Eagles were perched a long way across the water, and even though it is a telephoto shot, it is also cropped and enlarged a lot.
This is how they really looked through my camera. Well, that about wraps it up for this year. Happy New Year, friends and family!
1 comment:
I love that picture of the vulture turning its head around to look at you!! Was thinking of you today because I have been seeing a bald eagle on my jogs down the path through the cornfields. It perches in a big old tree by a silo.
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