Saturday, April 16, 2016

Shakey video of an Eaglet

Zoomed in 83 times with Coolpix P900, eaglet glimpse of one of the babies.

More Birds of Gilmore pond

The Great Egrets are from last fall but they are returning (White bird)

 American Coot
 Northern Shoveler with some American Coots
 Red Winged black bird
 Little Frog
 Double-Crested Cormorants part of the Rookery
 Great Blue Heron

 Last Fall egrets

Birds of Gilmore Ponds












Great Blue Heron Fishing














Wednesday, April 6, 2016

More Eagles and Eaglets

Some of the flying with nesting material and fish are blurry. Always work to be done when you are parents.

The little eaglets are so cute and fuzzy. They will grow up fast. The creek pic is below and to the left of the nest...view from my lawn chair as I look straight out.



 awkard angle pic, flying over and higher into the nest
 the parents left the nest for several minutes but were just 5 trees over


This is zoomed with a 300mm telephoto..so you need binocs or strong telephoto or 60 or 83x zoom camera to see the nest well.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Brookville Eagles

Missed the action flights but got a couple glimpses of the baby eaglets..we think there are two.

 dad on lookout
 Mom on the nest...babies are only about 2 weeks old.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Birds in SW Ohio






Redwinged black birds, robin, towhee and yellow-bellied sap sucker.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Great Blue Heron Rookery!

Great blue herons and the black birds are Double-crested  cormorants.

The nests are .2 of a mile from where i was standing...need to walk around the park to get closer to these guys. Only had the Coolpix610 so flying bird photos are blurry...but the light was great, the sounds magical...red winged blackbirds singing and kvetching.

 Double Crested Cormorants
 Fly softly and carry a big stick. Adding on to the nest.
 Flying around constantly doing home repair all evening.
 bad quality photo, cropped a lot, but the bird lands on tiny limb. Anti gravity birds!
 Couple standing on a nest
 The golden hour descends
Awkward bird about to land with a stick. Just got in from avian home depot.