I have walked several times here in my home park over the past couple of weeks, really trying to capture some pics of our usual spring migrants, especially hoping to see warblers. But my luck has not been good--so far the only migrants I have seen are one Prairie Warbler, and a bunch of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. The park has been loaded with Yellow-rumped Warblers--I think they have taken over the place as the first picture below indicates. They seem to have appointed themselves official greeters for the park.
I have had my first encounter here with a Great Horned Owl, who surprised me flying off a low perch right over my head, then landing through the woods about 50 yards away. I could barely see him with no clear shot with my camera to get a good picture--but I did manage a few shots so that you can at least make out that it is an owl.
Today(April 13), I did get an interesting shot of one of our Osprey residents--he was perched in a tree on the back pond with what appeared to be the remains of a fairly large bass which he was eating. These guys are super fishermen and are the envy of all our two-legged anglers!! In the pics below, you can see the fish pinned to the limb under his right foot.
I keep hoping for the warblers to come through---maybe in the next couple of weeks---See pics below from my recent walks----
I have had my first encounter here with a Great Horned Owl, who surprised me flying off a low perch right over my head, then landing through the woods about 50 yards away. I could barely see him with no clear shot with my camera to get a good picture--but I did manage a few shots so that you can at least make out that it is an owl.
Today(April 13), I did get an interesting shot of one of our Osprey residents--he was perched in a tree on the back pond with what appeared to be the remains of a fairly large bass which he was eating. These guys are super fishermen and are the envy of all our two-legged anglers!! In the pics below, you can see the fish pinned to the limb under his right foot.
I keep hoping for the warblers to come through---maybe in the next couple of weeks---See pics below from my recent walks----
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