Again, cheats from Yellowstone. The eagle above looks like it is just molting the last of the juvenile feather set. I’ll not going to say that’s definate …
Big Birds
Osprey
I feel like it’s sorta cheating to use photos from Yellowstone. I mean, where’s the challenge? Those pesky birds and critters are just all over the place.
Big Bird, Little Bird
I found these two birds far apart, but close together in my image library. The eagle photo was taken in southeast Alaska … home to thousands of bald eagles (and my home for a year or so back in the 1970’s). The mountain blue bird photo was taken in Yellowstone. I was more thrilled to see it than I was the eagle, since we don’t have them often where I live … and we have eagles flying over the house on a pretty regular basis.
Gray Jay
I know I’ve posted other images of gray jays before, but this one was pretty insistent that I take its picture.
Gray Jays
We took a break before hiking in the Hurricane Ridge area of the Olympic National Park. We immediately we visited by a flock of gray jays. I am always amazed how they seem to know where someone is eating. We guard our food carefully, since they are so little afraid of humans that they will swoop down and grab food off the picnic table right in front of you.
I like the different expressions they exhibit. And their lack of fear of humans (while generally a bad thing) is helpful for being able to get images like these with your iPhone. I shot these with my iPhone 16 Pro Max. I had a camera with me, but left it in the knapsack for these.
