Sunday, December 7, 2014

Sunday morning in the park!

I have been under the weather for a while and today I woke up feeling great!  So I decided I needed to escape the house and go to the park for some fresh air!   A beautiful day to me....of course the first thing I see is the swans....

The usual Canada Geese and Mallards were there.

As I drove around the loop, something caught my eye....a small duck splashing and doing wing spans and so I stopped to see what it was!



After it calmed down and was swimming away, I realized it was a Grebe!  I was amazed at how fast he could swim and of course "dive"


















Now you see me and now you don't!


 But I caught a fish!


 Then something else caught my eye....

Hooded Mergansers....





They were fishing too!  Just as I got my camera focused in on them......DIVE! DIVE!


Yes got quite a few of these splash pictures.....then wait to see where they would pop back up!


They were so much fun to watch that I forgot to search for the duck we saw at Thanksgiving when we came to feed the ducks...

                                     Black Cayuga Duck.....


My granddaughter the duck whisper.......











The Swan ate right out of her hand.

And I didn't see the tagged Canada Goose from Thanksgiving either....



I got on the internet and found a place to report the sighting and later I got this back....

Before I left I took a couple pictures of the park....


The Canada Geese flew in for landing....so neat to see that......




View from the Gazebo....



Starlings in the tree.....


Band Stand with green garland.....

So another trip to the park is in order....but I had errands to run and got back in my car to go do them but I stopped to see if I could get a picture of the new Heron nests on the Scioto...this will be the third year.....


These are the Heron nests in the group of trees along the Scioto....





 The group of trees in the middle of this picture is where the Heron nests are.....
I was standing on the Bike path off of Riverside....


View of the by pass., 35......

View of Bridge Street Bridge (nest on the left in those trees)


View of the Pump House from the bike path.....


Got my errands completed and went home....was a great Sunday afternoon.....Hope yours was nice too...

Till next time...Keep looking....Never know what you might see!