This morning, because of the light in the sky, I took the above photo looking to the southeast from my porch. You can see the light grey gravel trail into Whatcom Falls Park. Looking at the photo, I noticed two Wood Duck (Listen) nesting boxes. Looking up just now, I saw one of the Bald Eagles (Listen) carrying branches to their established nest that I can see in the cottonwood grove to the northeast.
Yesterday I took the photo below. For some reason, the zoom worked better in black and white. The bird in the nest yesterday did not have the white head of a mature Bald Eagle. Now I'm wondering why a "yearling," if that is what it was, would return to its nest of birth. Could it have been an Osprey? That seems unlikely.
This morning a group of Canada Geese (Listen) arrived at Scudder Pond. A clear sign of spring!
3 comments:
Neat. Spring can't be far behind, can it?
As long as I've been taking pictures of Wood Ducks I've never heard the sound on the Cornell page.
Loren: It's funny about those Wood Duck sounds because I have heard those sounds as I sit at my desk with the window open but did not realize that they were the sounds of Wood Ducks. It was the same way with the Bald Eagle sounds. I heard them long before I realized their source.
I played the sound of the Wood Duck, and it completely startled our kitty cat. What a surprising sound. We saw Wood Ducks in our pond on the day we moved into our house. We hope to put up nest boxes for them this spring. I miss the sound of Bald Eagles.
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