Woodland Park Zoo - Animals Not in Cages

I took more photos of squirrels and birds that were hanging out to get visitor's scraps than I did of the animals at the zoo. Here are some of the former.

 

Beauty Like this takes work to maintain.

 

 

 

McNary continued

Up close and personal, they are surprisingly pretty birds. White pelican

Some sort of gull.

Marsh Wren gymnastics.

McNary Wildlife Refuge

The weather report for today was cold, overcast and rainy. I woke up to the beginnings of a nice sunny day and got to McNary as fast as I could. Not too many birds due to the season, but the ones that were there put on a show for me.

 

 

Winter Dulldrums

I've always loved winter. The dull gray excites me rather than depresses me. Until now. The sun comes up after 7 and goes down before 5 and in between are dull gray overcast skies. There was a hint of blue in the sky Tuesday, so I tried to skip out of work so I could go take a photo, any photo of anything, but I had a client with an emergency deadline Wednesday, which meant Tuesday I had to crunch to help them out.
I got out just after sunset and took these photos. ISO 3200, but the 7D did a good job of minimizing the grain. This is even with me not having any noise managment software. When I get some, watch out, this camera may be able to take OK photos even in the winter dulldrums.

Gotta get away from the crazy person with the camera.

Must not drop my veggies

Landing.

Finn running agility

These photos of me running Finn in agility were taken by my friend, Margie. These are amazing - Finn is a very soft dog, which means she gets scared and shuts down. 12 teams and another half dozen spectators in a small area and high winds - and she ran great! I'm so proud of her, she's come a long way.

 

 

More Trains

Fall in the Pacific NW

 

 

This one I call beauty and the beast. It's of a dredge used to mine for gold near Sumpter Or.

This one was taking in the backyard of my work building, from the Hanford 300 area across the columbia river, showing a powerful verga

and the requisite bird photo. Dark background, but neat BIF.