Some Feathered Friends found on Sunday and Monday

June 15^th, 2020

We will start our Feathered Friends post with this mornings outing. We decided to do an early morning drive this Monday. Yesterday, as you will see was a great bird day, so we wanted to see if we could see any at the sanctuary. There were a lot of Sandhill Cranes out and about this morning, this is the better of all the shots I got. It was nice to see more than one or two in one frame.

Okay, now for the Sunday afternoon drive and picnic snack, down to the cannery after an early afternoon outing. I am glad we got hungry, it had been awhile for stopping at the cannery to see what birds were hanging out.

I am pretty sure this is a fledgling eagle. It could be an immature young Golden Eagle, but I believe it was a fledgling Bald Eagle, as you will see below these ones.

He/she was just kind of hanging in the water. There were two of them, one took off shortly after we arrived, this one seemed to be intent on hunting frog legs or what ever he/she could get from the water.

Most of the time he/she was just hoping/walking along the water, but it did decide to put on a little wing show, kind like he/she was looking right at me and saying "See how BIG my wings are". It was kind of nice of her/him to do that.

Okay now why I think and lean more toward it being a Bald Eagle fledgling and not an immature Golden Eagle. You may or may not recall the photos we captured of the Bald Eagle in a tree, (the only tree), a few weeks back. We did not even see or notice him today until we turned around and were getting ready to leave.

I am lucky it did not decide to swoop down on me when I walked over close to the water to get a better shot of the young eagle. I was slower than my wife with my camera, but did manage to get some real nice shots.

Low flight over the grasses:

He is just a couple of feet above the ground.

Destination in site prepare for flare out,

Air braking procedure in effect, touch down in t-minus 3 seconds.

"Ha...bet ya didn't think I would make it"

And we have touch down.

It was a very nice picnic stop on Sunday, really made for a fun day, the young one in the water, and the grown one just having some fun flight time. That concludes my Feathered Friends post, Hope to see some of the others that are posted this week.

All photographs were taken by me on Sunday the fourteenth of June and on Monday the fifteenth of June.