Bald Eagle and Great Blue Heron intimidation confrontation
Bald Eagle Great Blue Heron confrontation – Images by Ed Book ©2011 Ed Book This heron must have found a sweet, or rather fishy spot as none of the other herons along the shore were being harassed but even when two or three herons would frequent this spot, the eagles would take offense and [...]
airborne at the Hood Canal
Flying Bald Eagle at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
Why did the Bald Eagle hide in a tree?
So the fish couldn’t find it. or? Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)in aDouglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)along the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
gathering of Bald Eagles at the Hood Canal
I wonder what this mature eagle had to say to the group. I watched as a mature bald eagle lost a fish to another eagle while in flight. Then, I heard the victim screeching in typical eagle discourse and then watched six eagles land along the shore with the muggee in the center. This eagle [...]
Bald Eagles at Lone Rock
We’ve been having a few sunny clear days lately and I’ve spent a couple of them, when the tide was out, down the hill where Big Beef Creek flows into the Hood Canal. The tide flats are broad there and covered by oyster beds. These very rough textured beds make for lots places where small [...]
Bald Eagle Bath Time
Adult Bald Eagle teaches its offspring how to bathe – Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©EdBookPhoto see the sequence of the parent Bald Eagle teaching its offspring how to take a birdbath here… Peace
Dance on the beach
Bald Eagle dances on the beach along Puget Sound’s Hood Canal at the Big Beef Creek estuary ©2010 Ed Book Watch the birds enough and you’ll see more than you expected. Peace
he swoops he strikes he flies but he missed
Bald Eagle strikes the water and misses in a fishing venture in Hood CanalKitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington ©2010 Ed Book If you caught something every time you went fishing it would instead be called "catching". This bird was fishing along the shore and as an immature, was unsuccessful in catching much more often than [...]
Bald Eagle flight training along the Hood Canal
Bald Eagle parent and two offspring flight practice at the mouth of Big Beef Creek on Hood Canal Kitsap peninsula - part of Puget Sound ©2010 Ed Book These young eagles hung out near their parent between flights along the shore, looking for small fish trapped in the oyster beds as the tide retreated. Their [...]
making her entrance – Daisy Duck’s country cousin
Mallard duck hen (Anas platyrhynchos) swimming in Takhlakh LakeGifford Pinchot National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington ©2010 Ed Book …and friend of Walter T. Duck Peace
Touch my junk and I’ll have you arrested!
©2010 Ed Book ‘just sayin’ Peace
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
Reflections and flying heron at Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal
Abstract Reflections on Big Beef Creek at the Hood CanalKitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound, Washington, USA©2010 Ed Book
Last week on the Skagit River Delta
Skagit River Delta – Images by Ed BookSnow Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and Bald Eagles wintering on Fir Island of The Skagit River DeltaPuget Sound, Washington, USA ©2010 Ed Book Last week I was up at the north end of Puget Sound where the Skagit River which collects snow and glacier melt from the north [...]
I happened to be there
Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria) visitor ©2008 Ed Book some others Peace
and more Snow Geese
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at Fir Island on the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA. ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter ISO 1000 1/320 sec @ f/16 Peace
more Snow Geese
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII – 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter – ISO 1000 – 1/200 sec @ f/16 Peace
last month at Fir Island on the Skagit River delta
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII 500mm 2X teleconverter ISO 1000 1/250 sec @ f/16 Peace
Halietus luecocephalus
an almost mature Bald Eagleat Big Beef Creek on the Hood CanalPuget Sound, Washington ©2008 Ed Book Help, my lens is too long and the bird is too close. I didn’t have time to take the 1.4X teleconverter off the 500mm lens for this guy. Although this bird looks like a mature, it was still [...]
Diving out of the blue practicing aerial acrobatics
immature Bald Eagle (Aquila Haliaeetus leucocephalus) practices aerial acrobatics ©2008 Ed Book Today low tide on the Hood Canal was a minus 2.5 so I went down with my long lens to see what I could record of the Bald Eagles that surely would be feeding on trapped fish as the outgoing tide isolated them [...]
Barred Owl
Barred Owlet (Strix varia) – Duckabush River Valley, Olympic National Forest ©2008 Ed Book Last week when I was over on the Olympic Peninsula camping with my children and grandchildren, Victoria (my new daughter-in-law) heard an owl in the forest canopy (I consider her an expert in birding) and Parker (grandson) saw one fly. I [...]