Bird, branches, and beavers, Oh My!

I stalked a bird for at least a half an hour at the "beach" a few weeks back. It was about 5 feet away from the edge of the river. It was catching some small fish.

I started out about 50 feet away. I would put my tripoded camera down take a few photo's, watch the bird for a while then move a couple feet forward on my knees stop then do the same thing again.

The photo's did not come out that good because the sun was in behind the bird. So the bird was darker than I would have liked. But I had fun stalking the bird.

On my way to the "beach" I discovers a beaver lodge under a steep embankment. I had seen it many times but I though it was just a clump of trees fallen in to river. I currently can not get a good photo of the lodge. No good angles to shoot from. I have been thinking of taking a canoe or kayak trip down the river when the leaves start changing colors. If I go by the lodge I will try to take a picture. I have not ridden in a boat for a long time and never by myself. This may be a bad idea. But I hope to do it soon anyway.

Anyway, I was walking along the trail and I see something swimming in the water and it was headed towards the clump of trees. It saw me and dove deep under water and I lost track of it. So I waited a long time near the clump of trees to see if it would come back. It finally did and I saw the big flat tail. Then I knew it was a beaver. Later a larger one showed up as well. I got an OK picture of it. It was difficult to get a good shot between the many tree branch's.

While I was waiting for the beaver to come back I took some pictures of some tree branch's