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Around the lake

Maggie took Jon and me on a wonderful tour of the lake. These stone towers are just past the marina where we started out.
A flock of these tern-like birds was on the hunt for lunch, swooping and diving and catching a lot of fish. I don’t know what they are yet.
I usually think of early morning as the best time to see birds, but we saw a lot of lunchtime action.
I was trying so hard to get a photo of this osprey that I didn’t notice the white bird (tbd) down below. There were three more off to the left.
Great egret
Again–I was so busy trying to get a picture of the coots that I didn’t notice the great egret right there on the shore.
Coots

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Egyptian geese

Much better photos of Egyptian geese, from our cove. A completely different look from the photos from the pontoon boat, in a previous post, where they look like . . . misshapen balloons?

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A few birds from out on the lake

Maggie, Grandma, and I spent a couple of hours pontoon-boating around the lake yesterday. The photos weren’t great, but we saw a couple of good birds.

The great egret was a little blurry but still very elegant. There is a great egret that flies back and forth in front of the house a couple of times a day but never when I’m ready with the camera.
Challenge: find the great blue heron.
American coot
A pair of Egyptian geese. These are birds that were introduced from Africa, for ornamental lakes and waterparks.
Guys working on the cabana roof

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A lot going on today

Those girders are REALLY HEAVY! They brought a few at a time down from the street with a tractor, then hauled them the rest of the way on a cart that reminded me of the kayak cart. Then the guys used this hoist to get them up to the roof, where one of them stood up on that scaffold on wheels and they swung it into place and welded it. It all looked dangerous and I am glad they seem to have all their fingers. And safety boots.
This morning they are pouring the pool deck. This crew is so professional; they work hard and have the teamwork thing down pat. The cement work looks really good.
It’s customary to assume that the toddler is fascinated by big machines and the like, and Lucas has indeed been very interested, but I think Suzy and I might be even more engrossed.
My number one photography challenge is capturing the image of a bird in flight. Suzy spotted this osprey when it was closer, but by the time I got the camera out it was a mile away and not visible to my eye. I randomly aimed and managed to get this unremarkable photograph which I include here to note my minimal progress for the record. UPDATE: this bird is an anhinga, not an osprey. New one for me!