2015

Cardinal Meadowhawk 04

Short Eared Owl

A Short Eared Owl is nice

Blue Heron - Detail

But this one wasn’t, its territory was the main path through a popular nature reserve. It owned the place 400mm focal length and only about 20% cropped

Long Eared Owl

But its long eared cousin is even more photogenic with a side view

Long Eared Owl

Or a front view

Browns Slough

Sunset over the Olympic mountains

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Stop 1 - Deer Lagoon, Useless Bay

Seattle From Mt Si

Baker from Mt Si

Snow Geese in the Morning

Old Ford - Skagit

Bald Eagle (juv)

The wildlife in the Pacific North West is so “available”. There were a handful of places I could get to in less than an hour’s drive that kept me busy for the whole two and a half years I was there. A baby eagle, we all agreed that they have fuzzy feet as nobody seemed to get the feet in focus

Northern Shoveler

Being on the coast (sort of, Puget Sound is an inlet from the Pacific Ocean with only a narrow link to the sea) there a lot of water birds. A Northern Shoveler, the same as our Shoveler

Snow Goose

And aren’t that impressive individually

Field of Snow Geese

But individually is not how they come – there were probably 50 cars parked along the road where I took this image – there were Facebook pages dedicated to where the snow geese where

Red and Blue