Our first stop was at the Blackburn Canal which is also known as Curry creek. We enjoyed a couple short walks with some nice birding at the first stop. I missed a great blue heron image early on, but it was waiting for us by a small pond a little later.
We walked out for a cache on our second short walk. The cache was close to the canal and near a large shed snake skin.
Ali spotted a number of birds she thought were blue grey knatcatchers on the walk out. On the walk back I was able to capture an image to confirm her trusty sighting.
We had parked across the street in a retail area for this first walk. as we were returning we spotted our first eagle of the day. A juvenile that landed on top of a utility pole near the drive for parking.
After stopping in the store grocery store for water, we made our way to Curry Creek Preserve for a short walk at the preserve.
It had been three years since we last visited Oscar Sherer State Park. The park was much wetter today and had few visitors.
We retraced some of our prior visit before heading off for new adventures and a few geocaches. Our caching adventures were peppered with some very nice bird watching including a pair of scrub jays who appeared to be working their way to nesting.
Mottled Ducks
Rather calm for an osprey...
We ended up at a more familiar location for a few final caches and a chance to spot more eagles.
We were aware there was a nest in the area. I spotted it while we were signing a log at a cache.
We weren't expecting to see up close aerial battles between a juvenile and an adult.
Whatever was happening was resolved decisively by the adult.
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