A TEACHING MOMENT

SWANDERFULL

Trumpeter Swan

SPRING SING

Grizzly

A Bear in the Bush

Enjoying the View

EYE ON THE PRIZE

Wax Wing Away!

BLADERIDER

I’d swear they were having fun.

It was a hot and breezy mid-summer day on the pond. And I was actually in the pond half submerged under camo with the camera supported on a surrounding air tube – to enable me to get at eye level with the ducks. There wasn’t much duck action however, and I began to scout around for something else to shoot.

I spotted some damsel flies and drifted over to check them out. They were backlit and the sunlight enhanced the beauty of their wings and rim lit their delicate features. I got some beautiful shots of them hovering over the water with full reflections as soft focused shimmers of leaves and seeds floated by beneath them.

Then I saw the windsurfers.

The damsels were landing on the floating willow leaves. At first I assumed it was just to grab a rest mid-pond. But as I tracked with them it looked like they would land on a leaf, windsurf it to the edge of the pond, fly back up wind, select another leaf, and do it all over again.

Kowabunga.

Pitts' Piper

FIRST DAY OUT

LEANING IN