Created 11-Feb-19
Visiting Searsville Lake and environs with John Todd's photography class, I experience my favorite time of day once again: dawn.
The first gallery is an overview of the day.
We all set up on the dam, in the cold current of air off the lake, to capture the dawn. I led a small contingent up Trail 8 and back around: springtime flowers (dirca), buds (buckeye), and mist-shrouded vistas. Many of us noticed a hawk perched in a tree near the Visitors' Parking Lot.
The morning was mostly overcast, with a few drops of rain. Heavy rain the previous evening left the woodlands wet and the dam overflowing. We did see sun, occasionally.
After they left, my fellow docent Scott Gould and I took another walk around. Another hawk (juvenile red-tail?) had taken possession of the acorn woodpeckers' granary tree overlooking the meadow below Road C, below the Sun Center. The woodpeckers kept their distance as the hawk scanned the meadow and posed.
We walked back across the dam to see some crazy bright-yellow mushrooms I had noticed. Then back to our cars, with cameras. As I was driving out, the sun had reappeared and the acorn woodpeckers were back in their granary tree.
PS: It rained hard that afternoon.
The second gallery shows the valley oak near the Visitors' Parking lot from various angles and under different weather conditions. A changeable day.
The first gallery is an overview of the day.
We all set up on the dam, in the cold current of air off the lake, to capture the dawn. I led a small contingent up Trail 8 and back around: springtime flowers (dirca), buds (buckeye), and mist-shrouded vistas. Many of us noticed a hawk perched in a tree near the Visitors' Parking Lot.
The morning was mostly overcast, with a few drops of rain. Heavy rain the previous evening left the woodlands wet and the dam overflowing. We did see sun, occasionally.
After they left, my fellow docent Scott Gould and I took another walk around. Another hawk (juvenile red-tail?) had taken possession of the acorn woodpeckers' granary tree overlooking the meadow below Road C, below the Sun Center. The woodpeckers kept their distance as the hawk scanned the meadow and posed.
We walked back across the dam to see some crazy bright-yellow mushrooms I had noticed. Then back to our cars, with cameras. As I was driving out, the sun had reappeared and the acorn woodpeckers were back in their granary tree.
PS: It rained hard that afternoon.
The second gallery shows the valley oak near the Visitors' Parking lot from various angles and under different weather conditions. A changeable day.
2/9/2019 Dawn on Searsville Lake, Yellow Mushroom, Hawks aplenty, Buckeyes in Spring, and More
Visitors 77
29 photos
Created 22-Dec-23
Modified 22-Dec-23
2/9/2019 Visitors' Valley Oak
Visitors 15
8 photos
Created 22-Dec-23
Modified 22-Dec-23
Dan Quinn