Our Pair Today

 

Fish Nugget Today

 

Today At the Beach

 The other Bald Eagle fledgling waiting for some nice nutrition to float by, scavenger-fashion. Not very spooky with me and the swimming dogs.

MCAT Camp

Missoula Community Access Television Kids, and started this Filmmaking Camp with the International Wildlife Film Festival in 1989, today the kids on the beach and at the van, major fun. Thanks MCAT and Scott Ranf! Our birds filmed for fun, all afternoon.
    

Big Girl

 

Eagle Time This Afternoon

Bald Eagle Beach today, two weeks of fledging and begging.

 

All In the Family

 Sandhill Cranes today strolling through some near-by agriculture.

Olden Days Favorite

"There was a fifth dog but the stick was too short"

 

Tree Swallows

 A kestrel has been making the rounds at all of the swallow boxes and have seen him score. This box is right in the yard, a snapshot just now when I was hanging the laundry on the line.

Eager Beavers

The resident beavers are building another dam under our bridge across the slough, several attempts over the years. One time our dogs ripped the branches out with great relish every trip to the river, for some reason. This is just three days (nights) work! Before Tom built the bridge 23 or so years ago, a beaver dam was our access to the other side, washed out repeatedly.

Holy Pelicans!

Right over the Raptor Ranch.

 

Some Fun

New one today, drypoint etching called "Red-tail and her Stick" inspired by a hawk I saw last summer, flying high, dropping a little stick and catching it over and over. Playful fun. 12" x 16" with printing inks, gouache and pencils. 

"We're Outa Here!"

No eagles in the nest Tuesday afternoon and one flew over to the pine trees by the pigeon building at 5 pm. So the earliest fledging since I started watching that nest by the house, 2011. This is my favorite shot of the youngsters, taken in 2017!