May 30th, 2009 - First Landing State Park

I did the same hike as last saturday (~10 miles) but definitely saw a lot more this time. I'm also now realizing that I have a setting on my camera turned down, which explains to me why the quality hasn't been as high as it was the first few times I used it. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that till I got home, so the photos I took today are on a lower DPI then is available with my camera. Anway, some highlights today were finally getting to take a ton of photos of the Green Heron that has managed to evade me almost every time I see it... Seeing a Great Blue Heron skewer a Flounder and proceed to toss it up and inhale it all in one piece... A female Common Snapping Turtle laying her eggs in the sand along one of the secondary park trails... all in all, it was a gorgeous day! Here were a few of the 150+ photos I took this morning-

View over the tidal marsh. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Northern Watersnake. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Eastern Bluebird. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Common Snapping Turtle laying eggs on the trail. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Male American Goldfinch. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Blue Jay. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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White Hill Lake & surrounding marshland. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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My Green Heron. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Green Heron stalking minnows in the shallows. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Green Heron. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Green Heron. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Green Heron. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Great Blue Heron. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Great Blue Heron, apparently he had an itch. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Great Blue Heron & the Flounder he skewered. Photo taken 5/30/09.
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Eating the flounder in 1 bite! Photo taken 5/30/09.
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