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Sunday’s Sunrise 1

March 12, 2023Posted in Carson Valley, Eastern Sierras, Landscape Photography, PhotographyTagged Carson Valley, Clouds, Cottonwoods, Eastern Sierra, Fence, Flood Plain, Flooding, From my Patio, Lakeside View, Red-tailed Hawk, Reflections, Sagebrush, Snow capped mountains, Sunrise45 Comments

4 days ago this was all covered in snow, but with snow last week followed by days of rain we now have a lakeside view!

We have more rain in the forecast so I imagine this will get more water this week. We’re about 15 ft above this so hopefully we’ll be alright.

There has been some flooding around the valley already. Fingers crossed it doesn’t get really bad. The county has sandbag stations set up across the valley for anyone who wants to get sandbags. The only requirement…bring your own shovel.

I hope you all stay safe, warm, and dry!

Nikon D810| Nikkor 80-200mm| PS CC 24.2.1

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Wordless Weds. Sunrise Storm Clouds

February 22, 2023Posted in Carson Spur, Carson Valley, Clouds, Landscape Photography, SunriseTagged Alpine Glow, Carson Spur, Carson Valley, Clouds, Cottonwoods, From my Patio, Job's Peak, Nikon, Sagebrush47 Comments

Nikon D810| Nikkor 80-200mm @ 100mm| PS CC 24.1.1

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Friday’s Feathered Friends- Cooper’s Hawk

January 6, 2023Posted in Bird Photogaphy, birding, Birding in Nevada, Hawks, PhotographyTagged Birds in the Wild, Carson Valley, Cooper's Hawk, Friday's Feathered Friends, Nevada, Russian Olive Tree, Snow, Winter66 Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

For several weeks we’ve had a Cooper’s Hawk perching on a neighbor’s tree out back. With all the White-crown Sparrows, and Quail about I’m sure it’s hoping for a meal.

I’ve been enjoying seeing it perched there.

Cooper’s Hawk

Fun Facts-

- Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone.
- A Cooper’s Hawk captures a bird with its feet and kills it by repeated squeezing. Falcons tend to kill their prey by biting it, but Cooper’s Hawks hold their catch away from the body until it dies. They’ve even been known to drown their prey, holding a bird underwater until it stopped moving.
- Once thought averse to towns and cities, Cooper’s Hawks are now fairly common urban and suburban birds. Some studies show their numbers are actually higher in towns than in their natural habitat, forests. Cities provide plenty of Rock Pigeon and Mourning Dove prey. Though one study in Arizona found a downside to the high-dove diet: Cooper’s Hawk nestlings suffered from a parasitic disease they acquired from eating dove meat.
- Life is tricky for male Cooper’s Hawks. As in most hawks, males are significantly smaller than their mates. The danger is that female Cooper’s Hawks specialize in eating medium-sized birds. Males tend to be submissive to females and to listen out for reassuring call notes the females make when they’re willing to be approached. Males build the nest, then provide nearly all the food to females and young over the next 90 days before the young fledge.
- The oldest recorded Cooper’s Hawk was a male and at least 20 years, 4 months old. He was banded in California in 1986, and found in Washington in 2006.

Fun Facts gleaned from allaboutbirds.org

Fuji X-T3| Fujinon 100-400mm| PS CC 24.1.0

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Wordless Weds. A Crisp and Chilly Morning

October 26, 2022Posted in Carson Spur, Carson Valley, Nature, Wordless WednesdayTagged Alpine Glow, Carson Spur, Carson Valley, Cottonwood Trees, Dawn, Fall Morning, Fog, Frost, golf course pond, Houses, Reeds, Russian Olive Trees, Sagebrush, Ski Runs, Sunrise, Wordless Wednesday36 Comments

Fuji X-T3| Fujinon 16-80mm @80mm| PS CC 24.0.0

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Wordless Weds. Dawn

December 1, 2021November 30, 2021Posted in Dawn, Landscape Photography, Low Light Photography, NikonTagged Carson Range, Carson Valley, Clouds, Eastern Sierras, Job's Peak, Landscape Photography, Nikon, Red Sky at Morning, Snow capped mountains, Wordless Wednesday36 Comments

Nikon D810| Nikkor 24-120mm f/4| PS CC 23.0.0

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Whatever Weds. Fall Color in CO +2

October 13, 2021October 12, 2021Posted in Carson Valley, Colorado, Fall Color, PhotographyTagged Aspens, Canadian Geese, Carson Valley, Clouds, Colorado, Fall Color, Fog, Job's Peak, Kenosha Pass, Pine Trees, Reflections, Snow, sunrise color, Willows37 Comments

While in CO. Fall was at peak or past it in the higher elevations and beginning in the lower ones so, after the wedding we began our vacation. First up we headed to Kenosha Pass to see the fall colors.

Fast forward…we came home to a cold snap. It was pretty chilly and windy all week-end; it rained a bit in the valley and snowed in the mountains, but on Monday things really got chilly and it rained, hailed and snowed a little, and yesterday I woke up to 23 degrees (-5c) and the clouds had lifted a bit on the mountains so I could see the snow on them.

Lucky me, a flock of Canadian Geese flew by and I got the tail-end of them in this frame. They’re heading Northeast somewhere.

I’m trying a new theme for the blog to see if my images look better than in the previous theme. I think it’s better. What do you think?

Fuji X-T3| Fujinon 16-80mm & 100-400mm| iPhone 7 Plus| PS CC 22..5.1

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Wordless Weds. The Morning After

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021Posted in Landscape Photography, Nevada, Nikon, PhotographyTagged After the Storm, Carson Range, Carson Valley, Clouds, Dawn, From my Patio, Job's Peak, landscape, Nikon, Photography, Pink, Storm Clouds, Sunrise53 Comments

Nikon D810| Nikkor 24-120mm @75mm| PS CC 22.2.0

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