Boxing Day

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

this is what it looked like around here Christmas Day!  Very dark and stormy.

we did have a spectacular rainbow though, just as it was getting dark.

today was much better…at least in the morning, so it gave me a chance to try out the camera that Santa brought me – had to kill the charge in the battery – Len’s & Shutter’s orders!

First attempt at using the 35x zoom – I’m happy!!!! – that is hand held, no tripod no cropping.

Can’t ignore the adult Bald Eagles!

later, went for a bit of a drive along Morris Valley Road, to get a different view of the estuary…believe it or not, there is a Great Blue Heron in this picture….

Yup!  There it is…taken from the exact same spot but with maximum zoom…again, no tripod, hand held in an idling vehicle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a pair of Hooded Merganser as well….

This photo shows them both.

a bit further along…there was a Belted Kingfisher sitting on a tree out there…

Ok, this time, I admit, I have cropped it too.  It was so far off…it is looking straight at us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then drove over to Kilby.  There were quite a few eagles down on the shore right before you go over the bridge…

zoomed in on a couple of them…

very calm out on the bay….weather was getting darker by the minute!

a lot of activity over by the railway bridge – mainly Lesser Scaup and Bufflehead

a few American Coot as well..

and one train….

about this time I managed to kill the battery…so home to give it, it’s first full charge…by the way, the camera is a Canon Powershot SX40HS…a step up from the Canon Powershot SX20 that I love and have pretty much worn out.