It was just at freezing this morning when I got up. I knew it was warmer down at the river, so off I went.
The sun was out at Jenner and it was a bit warmer, with just a little light wind. I put my boat in the water and crossed over the river where I ran into this and another great egret.
Not far from them was this great blue heron getting some of that sun shine.
I slowly worked my way on up the river on the south side.
The eagle
Just past that spot, I spied this bald headed eagle sitting in a tree.
I passed on by it and continued on up to the Muskrat nest area at this spot where I sat for a good bit enjoying the sun shine.
I crossed over the river at that spot to check for birds along the shoreline on that side.
While I was sitting there, the eagle landed not far from me with the bovinosarous.
I sat with the eagle for about ten minutes when it flew off down the river.
The steelhead
About five minutes later, I saw a wake coming towards me in the calm water. It turned out to be about a thirty inch steelhead headed up the river to spawn. I took a pictures of it, as best I could, but it’s hard to see. That little white spot a few feet out from the paddle. The eagle would have liked to see that one, as it was in the swallows and likely within striking distance for the eagle.
After awhile, I headed back down the river on that side looking for birds along the shoreline.
The deer on the rock
I looked up and saw this deer on the old Indian Lady’s Face Rock on the ridge across from me. It was eating the grass which grew on the top of the rock.
Grebe
I continued on down and went by these two grebe.
And the Sea lion
Not far past them, this sea lion popped up in front of me, then dived down and I saw a big wake headed my way, right towards me. As I watched the wake come at me, I was wondering if it was going to do something I might not like, but it just passed right under me and disappeared.
From what I saw today, I think the steelhead are on the run up the river.
Open mouth area
The little wind there was earlier died down to a breeze as I headed for the open mouth area.
The tide was going to low so I had to watch the current didn’t take me out to the ocean. I sat in this spot near the mouth and watched for about thirty minutes.
I finally got tired and headed back for the day.
I passed by this brown pelican splashing in the water, taking a bath.
When I got back to the boat ramp the parking lot was full of cars. Seems lots of people were out and about today, enjoying the first day of the year in the sun.
I pulled my boat out and went on home and planned to do some chores.
Fixed the car heater blower
First off was fix the heater blower fan on my car. I had planned to hook the fan stuff up to my head light circuit to get some power as the power for it was gone on the wire that was supposed to supply it and I couldn’t trace it to find the cause. But I was thinking that might not be a good idea as if the blower blow a fuse, I might get caught in the dark on some highway without lights, so I found another spot, the windshield wiper motor.
I hooked that up and it worked so now I have some heat in my car for these colder mornings.
I did a couple other small chores and then quit for the day.
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.
