To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Cinnamon Teal in spring
Finding "wilderness" within a few hundred yards of a major highway is always a bit of a surprise, and of course, a pleasant one. This evening, as I was driving back to McMinnville from Portland, I pulled off Hwy. 99W at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Sherwood. I parked and started down a trail into the wetlands, and within about five minutes I was watching this pair of Cinnamon Teal in a small pond. The low sun angle at 7:00 p.m. made the rich colors of the male even richer, and the surrounding "music" of Red-winged Blackbirds, Orange-crowned Warblers and three species of Swallows made the moment perfect.
Finding "wilderness" within a few hundred yards of a major highway is always a bit of a surprise, and of course, a pleasant one. This evening, as I was driving back to McMinnville from Portland, I pulled off Hwy. 99W at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Sherwood. I parked and started down a trail into the wetlands, and within about five minutes I was watching this pair of Cinnamon Teal in a small pond. The low sun angle at 7:00 p.m. made the rich colors of the male even richer, and the surrounding "music" of Red-winged Blackbirds, Orange-crowned Warblers and three species of Swallows made the moment perfect.
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