Phil Lanoue Photography

Everybody Gets One!

On a recent grey, cloudy afternoon over at the salt marsh, the birds were still out and active, plus it seemed like pretty much everyone caught themselves a fish.

It actually almost looked like the same fish. Each bird had a fish that was around the same size, except for maybe the largest bird which was the blue heron, he had maybe the smallest catch of the group.

That was unusual for the great blues, they generally seem to ignore the smaller fish and wait for something substantial to come along. But, I guess this guy was hungry.

The Big Guys Were In

This afternoon we had a small group of American White Pelicans floating around out in the middle of the marsh pond area.

Suddenly one of the pelicans decided they all must immediately fly over to the other side of the pond.

So the group made the journey, but after arriving they started floating back in the direction they just came from.

It’s possible they were watching cormorants and diving ducks feeding and decided they needed to go where all the best fish must be located.

I think the big birds did get some fish, but one place looks (at least to me) as good as another.

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a healthy happy 2016 from me and the whole crowd over at the marsh.

A special greeting from our pal Mr. A. 🙂

Just Taking A Look Around

Here’s two more of the eagle from Tue. afternoon when he was swooping around the salt marsh area keeping on eye on his domain.

Busy Morning For The Eagle

I was going to post more pictures from yesterday afternoon but then… the eagle showed up again this morning and I had to go with these.

The bald was first spotted standing around and relaxing in one of his favorite pine trees but the quiet didn’t last long.

Very soon the eagle was off flying out toward the marsh pond area because it was apparently breakfast time. I guess he wasn’t too hungry because he came flying back in toward the salt marsh with a small fish tucked under his tail.

He landed on a branch in a different pine and proceeded to dine on his dainty meal. After breakfast was over he took off again but this time landed out among the reeds in the salt marsh for unknown reasons. He was moving around out there a lot too but no one knew what he was up to. There wasn’t any water right in that spot and he didn’t appear to have grabbed any type of bird or animal.

Quickly however, the purpose became clear when he popped up out of the marsh with a bunch of dried reeds grasped in his talons. He was gathering up nest material! The eagle did one more swoop around then headed out toward the nest at the far back edge of the marsh.

Quite a morning for the bird…

Glad To See This Guy Show Up

Well the bald eagle dropped in for a visit at the salt marsh this afternoon.

He did a quick circle around, stopped off for a sit in a pine tree, then took off again in search of dinner.

He seemed to be paying a bit more attention to a snowy egret then poor snowball cared for, but thankfully the eagle lost interest and moved on to the far edge of the marsh.

I’ll have more from this visit for tomorrow’s post. 🙂