O’ What a Beautiful Mornin’

February 2, 2008 Camp Scenes 2 Comments

Ben and I just had to get outside this morning . . .

The sun was shining . . .

The ice was sparkling on the trees . . .

and dripping onto our heads!

Here are some images I captured today:

Again, I focused my telephoto lens on the eagle nest, but no sign of movement. My snow shoeing buddy tells me the pair were seen on Middle Range last weekend! That’s good news!

Alas, I’m not as fast with the camera as I’d like to be. Ben, Cookie and I were walking on the ice along the tree line coming from the direction of Middle Range toward our picnic area, when all of a sudden the eagle flew out from the trees on our point.

I’m ashamed to admit my first reaction was to duck! They have such an amazing wingspan!

I focused my camera skyward, but the eagle was already flying around the point and out of sight.

Ben tells me I need to practice whipping my camera toward my subject like a cowboy practices pulling his gun from his holster.

Not a bad analogy.

Last Wednesday, while driving over the causeway between the lakes, the eagle was standing on the ice in clear view of the road, eating his breakfast. Do you think I had my camera with me? NOoooooooo!

A walk in the camp . . .

January 26, 2008 Camp Scenes 3 Comments

Today was a beautiful winter day! My friend Sue and I donned our snowshoes

and took a hike through the park.

Cookie came with us . . . kind of

We decided to take the path through the woods, then head alongside the edge of the lake for a bit before stepping onto it.

Unfortunately, I saw no eagles on or near their nest. But this isn’t unusual. They usually nest the very end of February to early March with babies hatching in April.

Still, I had to check!

I did see a pileated woodpecker though. I wasn’t quick enough with my camera to get you a picture, but now I know where he hangs out and I’ll try again another time. There were several trees in the area that looked like this:

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