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Eagles
The Klickitat is a fine summer steelhead river in the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge.
An area along the western bank of the Klickitat, now owned by the U. S. Forest Service, once belonged to England’s Lord Balfour.
Immature Bald Eagle
There is a small creek on the property which forms a canyon where salmon spawn. The spawned-out salmon carcasses are viewed by the eagles as a fine winter dining opportunity. On this day in late February, there were several immature bald eagles in the vicinity.
I visited the area on a very windy, but spring-like day. There were many LBJs to be seen (Audubon speak for little brown jobbers – – – hard to identify, small birds).
To my surprise, there were a couple of wildflowers in bloom. By the end of March there will be many a colorful wildflower to be seen.
Rainbow ending in the Columbia River
Columbia Desert Parsley
Oak Savannah
Townsend’s Warbler (?)
Oak Gall
Red Tail Hawk
White-breasted Nuthatch
Immature Bald Eagle
That Warbler looks awfully like a Goldfinch, the state burd of Washington, but I’m no expeet.
Could be. I couldn’t get close enough to shoot a sharp photo of it.
That looks like a bedraggled goldfinch
LBJ’s are always tough for me to identify. I was thinking it was either a yellow-rumped warbler, Townsend warbler, or a goldfinch.
Nice shot of the eagle!
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Thanks Sherry. It came very close as it flew around a large Ponderosa Pine tree.
Great picture of full flight . Freedom doing what he dose bring blessings from the prayers sent up with the peace pipe . We need blessings in these days from Freedom . Thank John I always enjoy you pictures even though its takes me awhile to get get to them having to learn my updated phone now , lol everything is frustrated learning this BS but Love your pic from your hikes . That’s always been a blessing your pictures you’ve been great at for many years you capture the real truth in nature and bring it to life as long as I can remember many years . Thank you my friend .