It was foggy when I arrived at Jenner this morning. I put my kayak in the water and paddled across the river and on up into the fog. There’s some white pelicans up ahead.
The pelicans were just sitting on the water taking it easy.
As I approached the muskrat nest area, the fog started lifting.
I sat with this great white egret for a spell then decided I’d check out the turkey vulture’s nest which was close by.
The fog had lifted nicely by now and I put my boat ashore by that big rock up ahead.
It was at high tide, so I didn’t need to be too concerned about the water rising up on my boat, but I tied it up just the same.
The trail to the turkey vulture’s nest goes up the hill below the nest through this spot. The river otters have been using this spot for over nighting. The big rock in the background has a worn trial through it.
This is the worn trail through the big rocks. Unfortunately, it connects the otter’s spot to the turkey vulture’s nest. And I think that may be what happened to one of the young turkey vultures that went missing.
The turkey vulture’s nest
The nest isn’t easy to access as it’s in a pile of rocks and brush. I had to climb over stuff to get to it. The nest is in the middle of this picture in the rocks, dead center of the picture.
Here’s the turkey vulture’s nest. Hope you’re not disappointed, but the turkey vultures don’t build nests. They use what is already there as they are vey efficient birds. There were plenty of nooks and crannies for the young birds to hide in all around this area. So far, the three turkey vulture nests I’ve seen all had two eggs in them
Smelled yucky too
I’d say the place smelled like it was a turkey vulture’s nest too. Pew.
Here’s the turkey vulture’s view from it’s nest.
I knew the young turkey vulture had left the nest so I wasn’t disturbing it. There wasn’t a lot to see. I took some photos and headed back to my boat.
The wind stayed mostly down today which is always nice. Here I’m headed back down the river, headed in for the day.
Got the new radiator installed in the van
I planned to do some more work on my van when I got home, but the sun was on it, so I waited around until the sun was almost down before getting started on it. I needed to install the fan blades and the new radiator. I got that done.
Then I needed to do some planning on how to make a shroud to go over the fan as it hasn’t had one since I’ve owned this rig. I’m also planning on putting an electric fan out in front of the radiator to force more fresh air into the engine compartment, so I did some planning on that too. For now, I plan to put the fan on a switch so I can turn it on and off and see if it’s effective or not.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
