It was owls first on Tuesday, and then we headed over to see the eagles. As you can see, the ‘babies’ aren’t hard to spot these days. That cute fuzzy stage doesn’t last long, I think this is their awkward adolescence. And that shy second chick seems to have gotten over it too. We didn’t stay long, didn’t wait for parents to put in an appearance, It was almost a drive-by.
And if that was almost a drive-by then our next stop at really was a drive-by. Just down the street is Anclote River Park, and it’s a given there that if there is a post then a pelican will be sitting on it. So we shot out the car window in true. drive-by style.
We parted company after that, and my trip home took me right past the rookery, so a stop there seemed like a no-brainer. I was the only one there, but lots of people stop their cars to see what is going when they see you on a ladder with your camera. They are always amazed and usually have no clue what birds they are seeing, and say that they never noticed the birds before. And I don’t mind the distraction since things are on hold there at the moment. Egg-sitting and standing guard seem to be the order of the day while we wait for the hatching to begin.
Except for the egrets. They fluff out those feathers and ‘display’, I think it’s called. In one fluid motion they stretch their neck up, and up some more, and then bow down, to no one in particular. Hmm, I should probably look that up…
A Snowbird's Life Through the Lens 