Catch Up (part ii)

Last week I said I was catching up with a backlog of pictures [Catch Up (part i)]. Today I’ll continue with a number of January pictures that are worth sharing.

In addition to the Hooded Mergansers and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, I’m always happy to see the winter return of the kinglets. Here’s a Ruby-crowned Kinglet showing just a bit of its crest.

A few minutes earlier I had found him preening, stretching, and showing his crest. There are too many twigs in the way, but the crest is something special.

I take dozens of pictures of Red-shouldered Hawks, Great Blue Herons, Green Herons and the like. Maybe it’s because sometimes I capture a picture that I really like.

Stepping away from the pond for a bit, you may have seen in news reports that at this time of year the Bald Eagles gather at the Jordan Lake Dam spillway. I have been do the dam a couple of times this winter. Perhaps I’ll go again. I’m not thrilled with these shots, but perhaps I have an ideal of perfection in mind.

This is a juvenile, perhaps first year. I ran into T at the dam and he let me take a few pictures with his massive zoom.

Let me know if you like a picture in this post! Let me know what you like about it.

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