We have a few tall Loblolly Pine trees on our property. They have become a little more popular since the geese took over the osprey nest. Sometimes the osprey and eagles like to sit on the high branches and look for their next meal. Recently, an eagle pair were enjoying the view.
On May 2nd, I noticed that the geese on the osprey's nest hatched their goslings. Daddy Goose was on the lawn, keeping an eye on a little gosling that had somehow fallen out of the nest. The little bird stumbled around and got caught briefly under the base of the cedar tree by the water.
The gosling tried walking along the bulkhead.
They landed quite near the gosling. The photos are not very good, but you can see that the Great Blue Heron and the black birds were not attacking.
Daddy Goose got quite close by, but still didn’t see the baby just sitting near the bulkhead. He just kept looking the wrong way.
And Mama goose was still sitting on the other young ones.
Finally Daddy Goose spotted the gosling in the water by the pier where I couldn’t see them, and they swam away from my view. I don’t know if they stayed on the shore or what happened overnight.
On May 3rd, I saw three adult geese and a family with 6 goslings by the bulkhead. I don’t know if the little gosling survived or if the family was the same one. It seemed likely and I can only hope the little gosling survived.
After swimming around for a bit, the geese abandoned the nest and later I saw a goose pair checking out the osprey nest. I kind of doubted it was the same pair since there were no little ones.
After photographing the eclipse, I decided to photograph the neighbor's osprey since I had the longest lens handy and I didn't have to carry it very far . This year our nest is occupied by a pair of geese. I prefer the osprey, but unless they object to the geese, there isn't much we can do, but watch the geese. No little ones yet on either nest.
At the last minute, we found our solar filter which fit perfectly on my Tamron 150-600mm lens, and shot it with my Nikon D850 until 3:45 PM when it was obscured by clouds. I had difficulty tracking the motion of the Sun across the sky and Jim had to do some difficult adjusting in Photoshop. It's not perfect, and too few shots, but it's interesting anyway.
I'm also adding some composites I made, with clouds.
Here are more cherry blossoms to enjoy. I get a second chance at photographing them because the weeping cherry trees in my own yard bloom a lot later than the trees in Lexington Park and elsewhere. The first photo is a stacked photo to improve the sharpness of the image, taken in a Lexington Park parking lot. Notice how much more impact the photo with just a blue sky makes than the others with blurred backgrounds.
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