The Huntley Meadows Park Blog 6/22/2013

Iam back at Huntley Meadows Park in Virginia for the duration of summer,fall and the early part of the winter until the 2014 Bald Eagle Nesting Season. So you will see alot of wildlife photos taken from this park in most of my upcoming blogs. I hope you enjoy my photos and please join my blog and comment. thank you. The following photos were taken in one day of photography at the park many of the photos are of feeding behavior of young birds and adult animals. Green Tree frogs, young Barn Swallows being fed by parents, young Blue-gray Knatcatchers being fed by parents,Beavers feeding, a young ruby-throat hummingbird perching, a Great Eagret flying from a perch and a deer grazing in the marsh.

 

The Conclusion of the Bald Eagle Nesting season for 2013

It was about 9.30 am when I stepped off the Metro subway at King street Metro station and walk to the Mt. Vernon Trail. I was a long but pleasant walk to the first Eagle nest site at Morningside lane. I arrived there by 11:30 am and started looking for the Juveniles in the nest immediately and spotted one of the two juveniles in the stages of Branching. I think this is the last stage of branching before fledging    I hope I will see them as the fly overhead at sometime later in the months ahead as they learn how to be a Eagle. The follow One of the adults at the Ft. Hunt site. Enjoy. I cropped some of the images. I had very little luck with flight shots this time but will continue to pursue my perfect shot whenever I go out to capture photos of Bald Eagles.

2013 Bald Eagle Nesting Season Moningside Nest end of Season photos

This is my first look and photos of the new juveniles at the Morningside nest because my camera equiptment was not functioning for months and could not afford any new equiptment. I finally have it in some working order enough to get some photos. I hope to get better photos than this in the future postings.

Cherry Blossoms

 Im photographing scenic photos because my large wildlife lense is broken and my camera has not been in good repair for the past several months. It is okay so far to get these photos,so it does work but some  of functions of the camera are not working.  when my large lense is repaired I will get back to photographing the Bald Eagle Nesting season for 2013 hopefully. 

Huntley Meadows Park Hummingbirds

This post is about specifically the Ruby-throated Hummingbird which occurs in this region of the country and is the only confirmed regular Hummingbird species that occurs in the Eastern U.S.. I have been pursuing the Ruby-throated Hummingbird all my life and until last year it was the first time I captured decent photos of the beautiful bird in 2011. This is the second time Ive gotten decent photos of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird now here in August, 18, 2012. Huntley Meadows Park has been a great place to see the Hummingbirds and is a great place to photograph many other bird species. I came late in the morning saturday and was shocked to see how dry the conditions were in the central wetlands of the park. I have never seen the park empty of water, so there weren't many subjects to capture with my camera and I wandered around the park looking for some to photograph. I finally decided to search for Hummingbirds and I posted in one place near the Observation Tower where the Trumpett vine plants were most abundant. I only had to wait about 10 minutes for the Hummingbirds to show up and I was set for the next several hours. It was a great day and these are only a few of the photos of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird that Ive edited so far. I will probably post a few more in the future.