October 2010

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Fly Away Home (and Safe)

October 29, 2010 Birds

As we inched our way toward the cranes, I heard the sound that always shatters my serenity like, well, a shotgun. Because it was a shotgun — very close by. In a clearing across the river, just a hop and a skip from where we were …

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Great Blue Dreams

October 26, 2010 Birds

We came upon this Great Blue Heron, perched statuesque above a leash-free dog area. The dog walkers didn’t look up. Neither did the dogs. But my eye is always looking …

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Dine Like an Eagle

October 24, 2010 Birds

Taken during a recent visit in the Northwest. We came upon this scene on a Seattle area beach . . . a small stretch of private community beach where we have a guest pass . . . the same beach where I was shown the gate, when I wandered too far during my first stroll [...]

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Spillway

October 22, 2010 Pacific Northwest

At the Ballard Locks there’s a mist that hangs over the spillway, the meeting of nature and machine, sending and suspending droplets across the sky and onto my camera lens.

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A Merlin’s Dragonfly Day

October 16, 2010 Raptors

I expected duck photos and got a Merlin. This female used her perch to survey the mass of dragonflies below. She regularly dove then reappeared on this tree with a dragonfly in talon. The Merlin Falcon Foundation has information on Merlins of Western Washington and British Columbia, including Merlin behavioral insights and audio of their [...]

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House Fly Cafe

October 11, 2010 Bug Nation

Could be a diner shuttered by the Health Department, or . . . A house fly doing what house flies do: bringing up saliva to liquefy food. Flies tend to stand still through their moments of digestion, making macros of this phenomenon possible. Shot on a friend’s porch, after a rain deluge, with my Panasonic [...]

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The Art of Gull Feet

October 8, 2010 Animal Behavior

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Pigeon Over Seattle

October 6, 2010 Doves & Pigeons

This pigeon did aerial turns and hovers that rivaled a raptor’s. I captured a few frames as she took off from Pike Place Market and hovered for a few seconds against Seattle’s skyline. Thanks to SkeletalMess on Flickr for the Creative Commons texture “Tainted” which I used in the above rendering. Related Pigeon Posts: Lancelot-Guinevere: [...]

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I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

October 5, 2010 Perching Birds

A Starling’s tribute to Duke Ellington . . . jockeying for best song position, and losing it to a crow. Shot with my Olympus E-520 and Zuiko 70-300mm. The photo was taken as the sun receded behind clouds, just above the horizon, so it was later-afternoon warm and filtered.

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Learning to Not Trespass

October 1, 2010 Habitat

It shouldn’t be that tough, right? My first beach 2010 experience up in the PNW was during a minus-point-one low tide. That foggy Seattle morning, I ventured from a public beach into the way-out low tide. Normally, I wouldn’t go that far since I’m hesitant to mess with fragile sea things under my boots. But [...]

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