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Happy Friday or as I use to say when I was working TGIF

Over the last couple of years you have heard me lament the loss of a great wildlife area in the 16th Street Basin.  Almost all of the trees (that eagles used to perch in) were taken out and a vast solar panel array made it difficult for wild life to use the basin.

There were countless times that I would drive to the basin anticipating some wildlife only to find the basin void of any life at all.

Back on August 13th I wrote about the Basin and how I found a lot of wildlife there for the first time in a long time.  Here is the link in case you want to read my rant.  https://updedesignsblog.com/2023/08/13/sunday-august-13-2023/

Well on that day there were 30 or more Egrets, Ducks, Canada Geese, and Pelicans.  I even found a Blue Heron that I wasn’t even aware of until I saw it in post processing the image.

You can see him in the upper right corner of this image.  Unbelievably I have not been back to the Basin to see if the Wildlife are still frequenting the place.

A bunch of ducks were in various parts of the Basin.  The water level like so many areas was very low on the 13th.  I’ll have to get back down there this weekend and see what’s going on.

Remember you can click on any image to reveal a larger more detailed view of the image.

Always the ubiquitous Canada geese were present.  Most of them were on the far side of the Basin, too far away for a good image.

There were a fair amount of Pelicans at the Basin but a lot more at the lock and dam.  With the Nikon D500 set on high continuous mode I ripped off about 700 images.  Most of them were duplicates and my lack of practice with big lens was obvious with a high number of unsharp images.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your day and be careful.