A Step Back In Time

So I'm going back in time a bit, to the begining of the month of July. I made a trip to the Oregon coast to meet up with my family. Its always good to see the grandkids. Of corse I was on a mission to capture some great photos as well. I got to the coast the day before my grandkids and set uo my camp. I was spending two days at South Beach State park Campground. Its a nice campground with lots of spaces and a couple trails that lead to the beach. I snapped some nice pictures and got Six new birds added to my life list. I'll post some of them here.
There was some fog two of the days I was there so some of the shots reflect that. I didn't really mind it that much, I mean sure it would of been nice to have it sunny and bright but nature don't play like that. The Pacific Loon was my favorite shot. They say its "Common" there but not at this time of the year, so it was marked as "Uncommon". Either way its a pretty bird. On my way home I decided to stop at Winstin Wildlife Safari. This trip I was going for headshots. I got some really nice ones as well as a really fun one as you will see.
That should do it for this post. I will be doing a couple more in the next few days. Oh and let me tell you what I did.... (Its not a good thing either) I was feeling under the weather for a few days and went to edit photos and clear some memory cards. Well I erasedall the photos from my round trip through Oregon I did back in June. So the only shots I have are the ones I picked through as I took them. over nine thousand photos gone with the click of a mouse. See Ya soon.

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