Saturday, July 23, 2011

Wages Creek Ospreys





Well, whole post up will have to wait...connection keeps dropping...One Day later--to continue (it's Sunday evening now, post started last Evening!): I was in Crescent City last Night...motel was okay, right next to the Harbor, where I sat and watched Seagulls and Pelican, and snacked on Fish and Chips after the long roll from Fort Bragg, with only a couple stops to looksee, Ospreys one stop, another brief one for Faraway Elk near Prairie Creek Redwoods...I was kinda disappointed in not seeing many Critters..but that's what happens rolling along on Narrow Roads...oh!...I did stop for long walkabout at Humbolt Bay National Wildlife Refuge....picked up some free Posters at the Visitor Center...Ospreys were thereabout a few years back...learned this after mentioning Ospreys I saw at Wages Creek (thought it was just Wage last night, and have edited, and 'am somewhat charmed by the name, insomuch as some wages have expended to see Ospreys thereabout!!...and even more, as Tonight, I'm back in Fort Bragg. for two nights, and will be up at Dawn tomorrow for short roll out to Westport, and down to the Beach where I saw Ospreys, and thereabout, I'll waitwait!!)....shortly, I'll try to do Tonight's Post, and tell more of today, Sunday...hereabout, surf motel, there's good wifi, and cabel tv with a jillion channels!! (in contrast to last night, with no Late, or LateLate, Show!!...wait..it was Saturday...one loses track of days traveling!!)....anyway, added the pics meant for last night's post...will try to add clip too...and more report for sometime....oh!!...how I sighted Ospreys!!....Buzz Birds are about a lot along the Coast, and approaching Westport, right by the Graveyard, which is about as fine a final perch as one could wish for!, I saw Big Wings flapping way out over the Ocean surrounded Rocks, and thought, 'that's not Buzz Bird's Wings'....pulled over, and startled Kestrel up from a Tombstone..pic, when Kestrel perched on Power Pole, for sometime...gathered the gear, and tentatively walked out to the Cliff Edge...was walking on like thick succulents, and wasn't sure what was beneath!...anyway, sighted Osprey, and returned for tripod, and for a half hour or so, took pics and clips...have sequence of Osprey just after catching Fish and lifting off (tomorrow, would like to get clip and pics of hover , dive, catch and lift off!)...Osprey farfar away...some hd clips of Osprey flying over the Surf and Rocks...this I'll try to upload to youTube....Osprey with the Fish in Claws (not Osprey rising from Surf--there were at least Three Ospreys!), flew back across Field to Tree Line and Forest of Pines, where Nest must be--I think Ospreys stay near, and use their Nests for Home all the time...have to check...anyway...much fun seeing Ospreys over Ocean!!!

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