Still more Oregon Coast photos

Oregon Coast - My Brother's photos

I never heard back permission to post his photos, so I guess that isn't the lack of permission either.

More Oregon Coast birds

I also figured out how to put a watermark on the photos. Not a good one, but it's a start.

Gray Oregon Coast - Birds

There were thousands and thousands of shorebirds. This is where my 100-400 lens shines. Too bad about the total lack of light, though.

Gray Oregon Coast - Landscapes

Last week on a very gray Oregon Coast. The photos with railroad tracks in them are my brother's, as well as the one right under the two RR tracks and some others might be, too. First two are the Peter Iredale at Ft Steven's State Park. The RR track photos are from the Eagle Sanctuary near Astoria.

Beaver Family

Had a horrible walk tonight - saw a magpie caught in a fishing line. I couldn't get to it, even after trying to walk knee deep in the Yakima river. But, my shoes were sucking into the muck and it was dangling from a tree more than 10 ft in the air. After 30 min I gave up. It will probably take all night for the poor thing to die.
Then, on the way back, I saw the entire beaver family in the pond between the Yakima and the concrete plant. So, I'll try to be happy seeing a healthy baby beaver covered in pond scum.

why dragons fly

The name of this blog came about because a few days before I started it, Chamna Natural Preserve was overrun with dragonflies. But, I prefer dragons. Then dragons fly was already taken, so I tried several different formats to no avail. That day at work I found I'd misspelled piece, peace, so I was laughing at myself and going through double entendres based on peace/piece - I decided my non-existent rock band will be named broken peace.
Who knew there were so many different kinds of dragonflies. I tried to look them up, but the websites I found had poor pictures and were hard to navigate. So, I decided to name them myself. Much more interesting anyway, since naturalist tend to go toward - piliated or naming them after someone they think is famous, but no one else has ever heard of.

From the top:
Photogenicfly
Paranoidfly (a subspecies of flackjacketfly)
Bigbluefly
Bigheadfly
Flackjacketfly
Kissmyfly
Flackjacketfly
Scaryredfly
Camofly