Adventures with Duck

When the wildlife know you're the boss and they do as you comand! (This is just for fun, my photos just worked out so I could do this post) I went back to Turnbull National wildlife refuge on Wednesday in hopes of seeing something that had fur not feathers. I was lucky and seen a few critters to capture so let me entertain you just a bit. I was driving by a pond and I seen this young lady just paddling along and I said to her "Hey, I think that you should hangout with this young man over here." And as they should, they listened and are now a happy couple. Oh but I didn't stop there, oh no. I soon came across a wild-e Coyote. He was just running around causing trouble, so I said "Hey you bad boy! lay down and stay!" And wouldn't you know it he listened. Now I'm starting to think that I have power over these wild critters, but I wasn't sure so I thought I would put it to the test, so...

Growing up in my home town we lived on the outskirts of the city on a small farm. We had all kinds of pets growing up that were not the tipical "farm" animal. One such critter was a Great Horned Owl named Hooter (this was long,long before the resturant was ever out.) We had him for a few years and it was a blast to watch him learn to fly. Anyway thats when I picked up the love of Owls. I've been watching a pair of Great Horned Owls for about a year now, those of you that have been following my Blog will have seen a post or two on them, Well they start nesting in late February to early March. It took me a while but I found their nest. It was the best hidden nest I have ever seen. Most people would never see it even if they walked right under it. Now when photographing nesting birds you have to be very careful, you don't want to disturb them in any way. They get bothered and leave the nest and the eggs/babies could die. Now this pair is used to Humans being in close...

A few years ago on my first trip to Yellowstone I was lucky enough to get some really nice photos of a Great Blue Heron. They are a large bird that wades in the shallows of rivers, lakes and streams. If you've never seen one fly you may not beleave me when I say birds came from the Dinosaurs. But be that as it may, here are some of the photos I got of the once dino..... This one hasn't gotten its mating plumage yet, but I'm hoping to get some next month on my next Adventure out in the wild. I'll be heading to Southwest Oregon to see if there is some wild cats to be found. The bird let me get closer than they normally do. It wasn't because it didn't see me as you will see in the photos below it looked right at me. but as long as I was standing still it would let me shoot all I wanted.