Early morning hike

**ChromeScholar** · 21st February 14, 07:26 PM

One of my hobbies is wildlife photography. Did an early morning hike this morning around Watson Lake, one of the local lake, to see what was hanging out.

Photos from this morning...

Double Crested Cormorant

Northern Shoveler

A few Red-winged Blackbirds

American Coot and male and female Green-winged Teals

I'll post more, if there is any interest.

**mookien** · 21st February 14, 07:39 PM

Beautiful photographs! - Audubon Society quality. Love the Red-winged Blackbirds - one of my favorite Aves. Thanks for posting. I'm an old American Coot myself.

**TheOfficialBren** · 21st February 14, 10:09 PM

Wow! Gorgeous photos! Thank you for sharing.

**Hawk** · 22nd February 14, 01:29 AM

Very nice photos indeed. Well done! I especially liked the group of Red-Winged Blackbirds.....

Hawk

**Spartan Tartan** · 22nd February 14, 07:05 AM

Those are great pictures! I am also a fan of the red-winged black bird. That double breasted cormorant is a wonderful picture.

**Couper** · 22nd February 14, 10:35 AM

Excellent photographs. I can tell you've been doing this for a while.

I, too, do nature and landscape photography - some while kilted. I could share some of them - but, I watermark mine with a web addy so they may not be acceptable here.

**ChromeScholar** · 3rd March 14, 03:12 PM

A few more of Watson Lake's inhabitants...

Northern Shovelers

Pie-Billed Grebe

Ring-Necked Ducks

Canada Goose

Western Meadowlark

**mookien** · 3rd March 14, 03:30 PM

Very nice shots. My favorite is the Meadowlark. I used to see a lot of those when I was a kid in Oregon, Idaho, and Utah.

**ChromeScholar** · 3rd March 14, 03:49 PM

One more I gotta post...

A snowy egret...

**Spartan Tartan** · 3rd March 14, 07:19 PM

Beautiful shots. I took my son hiking this past weekend and saw a couple snowy owls... we were both excited about those. Just wish i had a camera to take their pictures.