I really didn’t want to, but we had to come back home today. Appointments to keep and favors to friends to complete. Now if things go the way I’m hoping, when I check the Jury Duty website on Tuesday, it will say I’m not needed and then we can go back up north. Please keep your fingers crossed for me.
Here’s the wildlife moment story I promised.
Most days we determine what we felt was our "wildlife moment" of the day. Tuesday was a good wildlife moment kind of day. It was around 4:00 and we decided to take a drive down to "the pit", which is an abandoned gravel pit about 9 miles away. It’s a good place to go for a walk and a nice place for Molly to take a swim, unless it’s too cold, like yesterday. Anyway, we’re driving along when all of a sudden Jim says there’s a wolf back there. Eeek! We get to a spot where we can turn around, I get my window down, camera all set and slowly go back to where he saw it. Oh ya, it was still there, but only long enough for me to take 2 pictures.
Wow! That was a wildlife moment. We see wolves every year, but rarely get a picture of one. So now we continue down the road to the pit. We park, walk down to the pond and see there are some trumpeter swans and ducks on the water. The ducks take off, but the pretty swans swim around so I can take their pictures. Nice swans, thank you very much.
When I got home and downloaded the pictures, I noticed one of the swans had a yellow collar around the neck. Well, last fall I took pictures of a swan family and two of them had collars. I zoomed in on the collar and guess what? It was one of the same ones from last fall. The swan on the left is number 26C. I decided to search around and see if there was a place to report this information. Sure enough USGS has a form and I reported my trumpeter swan sighting.
See why I want to back up there? Everyday there’s so much to see and so many pictures to take.
Posted by Rambling on March 26, 2010 at 12:28 am
You’re right. I would want to be there too for the same reasons. Great shot of the wolf. I could not move fast enough for the one that was out in my back property the one time only I ever knew one was there. It’s thrilling to see these wildlife citizens and to get their picture, even more so. My fingers are crosesed for you.
Posted by Beth on March 26, 2010 at 1:02 am
I hope things work out so that you can go back very soon. I really enjoy the pictures.
Posted by Horst on March 26, 2010 at 1:06 am
Awesome photos Cindy, You were so lucky to capture a photo of the Wolf, the Swans are great also. Love it.
Posted by Babblelot on March 26, 2010 at 4:32 am
Hope your not needed on the jury duty. Excellent shots of the wolf and swans. Give ah hug to Molly for me.Have a great weekend!
Posted by Carol on March 26, 2010 at 11:38 am
Fingers crossed SIS… cool pics I do know why you like it up there.. somethign new every single day. Yesterday we saw at least 24 wild turkeys in a field on the way out of town.. by the time I focused and clicked the picture was blurry.. darn!! One male had his tale high in the air and he was HUGE.. so neat! I will have to look at our swans here for the yellow tags and see if they have any.. Hugs : )
Posted by Terry on March 26, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I don’t blame you for wanting to stay up there. Those pictures are just wonderful. Our swan here didn’t come back. Darn Never thought of reporting it.
Posted by Sherry on March 26, 2010 at 5:25 pm
You’re so lucky! Wouldn’t want to get to close to the wolf but you sure got a good pic of him. The swans are so regal and beautiful. I have all my fingers crossed for you.
Posted by Fizz on March 29, 2010 at 9:00 pm
You don’t have to convince me. I miss it every day I’m in this hot tell hole… LOVE teh photo of the wolf… AND teh trumpeter!!
Posted by maillady on March 30, 2010 at 2:24 am
I always enjoy your pics. Hope you get out of jury duty!