Two good photos for today. For one picture I worked real hard. Great Blue Herons are very hard to get near, domestic geese at a duck pond are another matter. While looking for wild birds and animals, the geese decided it was bath time. The result was run. Remember Bobby Darin’s tune?!
Splish Splash Geese
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Great Blue Heron
The bird on the day is in this wolves belly! Per my norm, I headed out shortly after sunrise. Today’s birding and photographing location was the Forest Hill Cemetery in Duluth. This location has some nice ponds and lots of forest immediately adjacent to the cemetery. Thus, birds and mammals like the park like location. Upon arriving at Forest Hill, I heard lots of geese and mallards squawking. Within a few moments I discovered the reason for their racket, a coyote had ambushed a duckling and eaten it for a quick breakfast!
Eventually I found that this cemetery was not a great place for other creatures to hang out. Both an eastern kingbird and a house wren were ambushing some food for breakfast!
Bird of the Day … in the Coyote’s Belly!
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House Wren Ambush
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Gravestone Kingbird Ambush
Even though the light was not perfect (middle of day with reflective light off the water), I could not resist photographing Huckleberry Heron! After all, it’s not every day that one sees and takes a picture of a great blue heron rafting down the river! Yes, this heron was slowly drifting down the St. Louis River just before it joins the Duluth Harbor off Lake Superior.
Huckleberry Heron
