Posts Tagged ‘winter birds’
Wordless Wednesday…Seeing red.
Posted: February 14, 2018 in Animals, Nature, Wordless WednesdayTags: animals, birds, birds in winter, cardinals, male cardinal, Nature, red, Seeing red, winter, winter birds, winter color, Wordless Wednesday
Ice fishing
Posted: February 13, 2018 in NatureTags: birds, fishing birds, herons, ice fishing, McDowell Forest Preserve, water birds, winter birds
After powering through all that snow without a sight of any wildlife other than small birds, I headed back towards where my van was parked. Crossing the dam, I looked down the river to my left and saw what appeared to be large grey spot quite a distance away in the snow by the water. But I wondered whether it might be a heron, as I’d seen one some weeks earlier.
Taking out my camera with the telephoto, I focused. Yes! It was a heron, hunched over, balancing on one leg while looking cold despite his nice and puffy down coat. I guess he must have been ice fishing. It was the view that made me morning complete.
(Anyone else having issues with WP formatting some of the words differently in the final post, even though they don’t show up that way in the original? I didn’t change “nice and puffy down coat” above, but there it is.)
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