My house, up on the hill
Wilsontown Rd. Bridge
Northwest end of the lake
Wilsontown Rd. bridge at sunrise
Great Blue Heron and Egret
Egret flight ops
Geese in the fog
Sunrise
Ducks
Great Blue Heron, just flew right over me
Heron in the grass
North Rabon Creek arrives at the lake
Who says it don't snow in South Carolina??
Comin' through!
Goose, goose, DUCK!
Not all the lake denizens have feathers
Some lake denizens have fur
Who needs a recliner?
Gettin' a good look around
Sun goin' down
Taken from a grainy, poorly-lit video, so it must be a lake monster. ... ok, either a beaver or otter. Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqUSxP6XOx0
Egret
Kingfisher
Dragonflies don't get no fresher than this
A quiet little corner of the north east end of the lake
Oopps
Osprey nest on top
Great Blue Heron - flight ops
Osprey parent: "That's close enough!"
Foggy morning
Lake Rabon Water Park!
Dawn Patrol I saw a flock of geese headed north. After they went out of sight, I saw one coming back. Then a couple minutes later, these three (one is just out of the frame on top) headed back north again. It was like the flock suddenly realized "Hey, did anyone tell the Smiths where we were going this morning?" and one said "Ooops... I'll go back and get 'em"
We all have 'egrets
Ok, not even a "better" picture, but enough to help substantiate a siting: Bald Eagle
Dinner time! Anhinga, I think.
I'm finding that Kingfishers are very difficult birds to get a good picture of. They're not large, and fly very energetically. Here's a little collage of what I've been able to capture.
Butterfly!
Seagulls: winter residents
In the "beak" mid-winter
Springtime just waiting to pop out under a very blue February sky.
Out of Winter's wrath, Spring ... has ... Sprung!
Ducks in the yard
The lake aeration system in action
Duck, with ducklets
Another eagle siting, this time with a little (very little) better picture.
Snakes on... well, snake, in the back yard
A what kind of buttress?
Or is it part of a dragon?
Another secluded corner (if the geese want to ambush me, this'd be the place)
Some sort of flowers along the shore
Breadcrumbs?
Another furry lake denizen
Green Heron
White Ibis, just a young'un
The sun helping bring the lake out of the fog
With the lake down, there's a lot of old stumps showing above the water. This one looks to have been used as a dinner table, probably by a bird.
A little overview
WAY over
Where leaves go when they fall in the lake.
Sunlight in shallow water.
A lake feeder, up at the far north end of the eastern arm.
Another lake feeder, near the Wilsontown Rd. bridge.
More water feeding in the lake - the South Rabon Creek.
