Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

Second set of photos from our sunny weekend excursions.  This time to the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, which is a treasure of a place not too far from home.

We've been here many times, but the main reason we went on this foggy Saturday morning (the fog did burn off to be a great sunny day) was to see this bird...

Drumroll please.....................

A Virginia Rail!! Yes Virginia, this is a Rail. Gosh, wonder how many times that has been said...










Had to post a couple pictures.  Nice looking birdie. Doug went back on Monday and said the bird has about 6 babies!!  Hopefully I can get out there this weekend to see those chicks.






Next up - "polaroids" of some other birds we saw:

White-breasted Nuthatch











Golden-crowned Sparrow










Common Yellowthroat









Also seen:

A Rough Skinned Newt.  This guy looks big but he's like only 3 inches long.  Tiny little thing.  I went all Macro on him to get this picture.  Funky dude.














And now we move into the "art" projects:


A spider web with the "Michael Orton" treatment from Picasa. Whatever that means.












A 1960s feel to the pathway.












A Cinemascope treatment to the fog and snags.












Overall another great day in nature. 

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