Sunday my son Daren played in the regional Special Olympics basketball tournament in Stanwood. As is my custom, I drove around Stanwood looking for birds to photograph during a two hour break between his first and second games.
There were reports last year of a colony of black-crowned night herons nesting in a tree on the grounds of a convalescent home in Stanwood. I drove around the vicinity of the convalescent home looking for the herons, but saw none.
I did see a Cooper's hawk perched in a tree across the street from the convalescent home.
A wooden owl was perched on top of a telephone pole down the block from the Cooper's hawk.
I also saw a male northern harrier fly by and land in a field about 100 yards away, but the shots are too poor to post here.
Perched in separate trees next to the street not far from the convalescent home were an adult eagle....
and a juvie.
Stanwood is a great small town in which to photograph birds, but my time between basketball games was limited. I drove out to the DFW land at the end of Eide Rd. to look for my primary target, snowy owls.
A short-eared owl was out hunting as I walked along the levee past the barricade at the end of the parking lot.
There were reports last year of a colony of black-crowned night herons nesting in a tree on the grounds of a convalescent home in Stanwood. I drove around the vicinity of the convalescent home looking for the herons, but saw none.
I did see a Cooper's hawk perched in a tree across the street from the convalescent home.
A wooden owl was perched on top of a telephone pole down the block from the Cooper's hawk.
I also saw a male northern harrier fly by and land in a field about 100 yards away, but the shots are too poor to post here.
Perched in separate trees next to the street not far from the convalescent home were an adult eagle....
and a juvie.
Stanwood is a great small town in which to photograph birds, but my time between basketball games was limited. I drove out to the DFW land at the end of Eide Rd. to look for my primary target, snowy owls.
A short-eared owl was out hunting as I walked along the levee past the barricade at the end of the parking lot.
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