[SBB] Shoreline, Charleston Slough, December 29

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

Laurie and I went out to Charleston Slough yesterday afternoon to  
look around, get some exercise and try to get some decent photos  
while I figure out what the new lens can and can't do (new lens:  
canon 100-400 IF IS; big, heavy, fast and long... I LIKE it..). It  
was about 3 in the afternoon under very grey skies, so the light was  
somewhat iffy.

I've got my photos up here: http://www.plaidworks.org/chuqui/ 
sbb-2005-12-29/

It was mostly the usual suspects. We were greeted by a Common Raven,  
making sure everyone around knew he was in charge.  Shoreline lake  
had cormorants, eared grebes, least terns, a common goldeneye, what I  
think is a red knot, and a greater scaup that clearly wanted his  
picture taken....  near the lake, about 10 canada geese were on  
patrol, as well as some wee brown birds (my sparrow IDs suck worse  
than my other IDs...)

over on the slough, there were large numbers of ruddy ducks and  
northern shovelers, one lone white pelican, and a huge raft (100+  
birds) that we finally resolved out to about 80% Buffleheads and 20%  
surf scoters.

Laurie found one redhead in the rafts of ducks, but we weren't able  
to refind it for photos.

We also saw both snowy and cattle egret. And an unseen but noisy  
hummingbird kvetched at us as we left...

as always, corrections to my IDs well appreciated...

(and as an aside, all of the work on the photos, and the web pages,  
were all done via Aperture (http://www.apple.com/aperture/) -- first  
time I've had the chance to push photos completely through the process.




-- 
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh
nervously and change the subject.



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