Friday night and Jamie(whos been injured, and new guy Zel wer chomping at the bit to get out, so we headed out for another attempt at getting Zel his first Great Grey. A quick Burger at the A&W and we were off. The birds of Prey were outr and about, a Northern Harrier was workingtowards us, then veered off. Grabbed this shot of an over head Swainson.
The Coyotes were out and about as well, we were finding them all over the place. I expect in total we saw 6 ot 8 in the evening. This is after what has been a dry spell for the critters for a couple of weeks.
Jamie spied this Kestrel, the wind was up and it was tough to get any kind of sharp shot with it rocking in the wind on this wire, but it is nice to see these beautifull birds back in the territory.
After spotting a pair of Sandhill Cranes, we managed to grab Zel his first ever great Great Grey. We spent about 5 minutes with the bird, it was perched in the middle of the field, then went to the back side. As we were watching, it flew right toward us and "pounced" int the grass. After a short wait it flew off with an unwilling travel partner.
Losing light at a rapid pace, we continued on our "track", we found 2 more young GGO's on a road where I have had zero success to-date, so a new area to pay attention in. The deer were out all over the place, and we found this fella in the same spot we saw him with his mother last week and the week before.
What I really like about this young moose is that you can see that he is "growing out" of his fuzzy brown coat, and into his hide. A close look aournd his eyes and on his "hump" you cna see that he definitely has his hair, on his rear flanks you can still see the fuzzy remanents of his "baby coat". This was another "first" for Zel. He was in a great mood, now he just needs to pick up a DX sensor camera so he can actually capture the shot:)
All in all a successful evening.
Turbo
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