It has been a few weeks since Jamie and I had a chance to get out for a "track", we had to keep it shorter than normal, and with the sun coming up later and later, we grabbed an extra hour of sleep.
20 minutes before the sun is up Jamie found this lady, that he says he never would have seen if not ofr the snow background (no crop).
After a couple of attempts to "capture" her I decided to give the flash a shot. I am really amazed how their feathers have the little white ends.
Aftrer quite a dry run we ran into this fellow, almost in the same tree thatTim and I found him in back on May 12th of this year. This was Jamie's first Sharpie.
Then it seemed ot be raining Sharpie's as we found 5 more on a seperate road, here are three of them.
As you can tell the morning was pretty heavily clouded, but things lightened up as the day wore on. I find Crows a facinating subject, they are sooo difficult to grab a good shot of. Here is my latest attempt.
After investigating a cougar kill site, we delivered some prints to the local guy that gives me permission to walk the land. Going up the drive way we found this cooperative Coyote.
On the road home we spotted several Golden Eagles coasting over the hillsides on their way south. This was a great opportunity, except that the birds were so far off, so in that instance you take what you can get.
Here is a shot of two of these fabulous birds together.
A couple more shots to show you the variation in their underwing patterns.
And another
It was a real treat! We wrapped the day up with another rapor, a Rough Legged Hawk. I was thinking of just posting his talons!
That wrapped up the morning. We were stoked about getting back to the house to check out the shots on the big screen. A very successful session.
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