Baby Steps

Discovering his new world came much more quickly than I'd imagined. Just 6 hours ago his nest mate had taken off to parts unkown, (the north side of the house into some Birch trees.) Now as I stood looking out at the Oak tree from my bedroom window I could see him standing outside his nest. Then came the tentative hops up the branch. (Just a few inches from the bottom of the branch in the photo is the nest he started from.)

He looked around at the new views of the world before him.

Dinner looks a long way down..... "and I don't have my flight feathers in yet or my tail feathers"...... so he walked back down the branch and back into his nest and took a nap. Tomorrow is another day. He sleeps snug under a golden moon.

Photos by Ron Hughes.

4:30 am

Yesterday morning I checked out a friends latest blog and had to giggle when I saw her beautiful "sunrise through the trees" photo. It was stunning and not funny in the least, but compared to my photo of a few hours earlier.... I woke up at 4:30 am to the most beautiful sight of a large amber moon across the lake. I ran for my camera and took several shots hoping one would come out. It was so dark that the shutter stayed open for what seemed an eternity. I didn't want to grope around in the dark for the tripod so I tried my best to hold still. The above photo was the best I managed to do.

To the left is one lone American flag flying high on a pole on the shoreline, the center light is the moon and the line of light on the right is the reflection on the lake from the moonlight.

You'll just have to take my word for it. It was very beautiful!!