My Sunday morning

[Copy_Kot]

Had an unusual visitor first thing this morning. We have a lot of grey squirrels, but not too many in the black phase… of course I couldn’t get a pic with him/her facing me…



Went to the river to see if the usual suspects were there…





We had some sun, but it was pretty dark most of the day…



I couldn’t figure out what was stirring up all the gulls out in the harbor (a lot of noise in the image, I didn’t bother changing my settings)…



And then I saw what had them all worked up. Out in the distance a coyote was trotting across the ice, probably looking for a dead gull or duck. It’s a bad image and the coyote is pretty far away (how I wish I had a 600mm f/4L)… I’ve seen plenty to know that is what it was…



I caught this young one as it went over the top of a small hill…



Almost walked right up on top of this one…



And this is probably where I should have been instead of taking pictures…

[paulnj]

Great images, the other thing that gets birds moving is a bald eagle flying over.

[Copy_Kot]

Thanks Paul,

This guy/gal has been hanging out where my street dead ends into the river for about the last week and a half There wasn't a gull or duck within 300 yards :lol:





That is the closest I could get so far (this morning). hopefully I'll be able to get a halfway decent shot soon.

[paulnj]

Use the road kill trick..... seriously. Put out food and they will come.

[Copy_Kot]

I might have to give that a try, the eagle usually hangs around in an area that is impossible for people to get to.

edit- just trying to paint a ****