Weekend Photos : 10-18 to 10-19 2014

Only two species here ...

First up is a female Mandarin Duck.  This is an Asian bird, out of place in Oregon.  This is a wild bird, but is likely an escaped bird or descended from escaped birds that were imported.

Next, some Elk out at Jewell Meadows.

Update: October 6 through October 12, 2014

The following is a selection of my weekend photos ....

Up first is a set of photos of Western Scrub Jays in my backyard.

We were also visited by four young Raccoons who hung out in our backyard Elm tree.

Below is a male Wood Duck at Dawson Creek Park in Hillsboro, OR.

For comparison below is a photo of a male (left) and a female (right) Wood Duck ...

And here is a hermaphrodite Wood Duck displaying marking of both a male and a female.  Compare it to the above photo.

Also at Dawson Creek I photographed a Western Grebe.

 

An American Wigeon, also at Dawson Creek.

An Acorn Woodpecker (Dawson Creek).

A couple of Western Pond Turtles (one peeking over the log) at Summer Creek in Tigard, OR.

And finally, a couple of shots of a Great Blue Heron flying over the Tualatin River at Cook Park in Tigard, OR.

Thanks for stopping by!

Bad weekend to be a frog!

Here is my update of photos from September 19, 2014 through October 5, 2014.  But first, this weekend it was obviously imminently dangerous to be a frog, and here's why ...

Green Heron eating a frog

Great Blue Heron eating a frog.

Green Heron with another frog.

River Otter eating a frog.

And it wasn't too good being a crawdad either!

River Otter eating a crawdad.

Here's the sequence of photos showing the Great Blue Heron eating the frog shown above.

 

And here's a sequence showing a Great Blue Heron flying and landing.

And now, just a few more Great Blue Heron photos before moving on.

Here are some shots of a Green Heron.

A Humpback Whale.

A couple of Gulls in flight ...

Douglas Squirrel, also known as the Chickaree.

 Acorn Woodpecker.

Long-Billed Dowitchers.

American Robin.

A set of Red-Winged Blackbird photos ...

A Red-Tailed Hawk in flight ...

A small trout.

Some Wood Duck photos ...

Some River Otters ...

And finally, a portrait of a Mallard Duck ...