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December 31, New Year's Eve day, the last day of 2020. After half a day of Eagle and geese photography I headed over to the Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area near Oxford, IA to take photos of Short-eared Owls. While not a guarantee, they have recently been flying over the grasslands in the couple of hours before sunset searching for mice. I was fortunate to see seven or eight and got photos of two, one flying and one perched on a small tree branch right at eye level near the road. I was able to take photos of the second one quietly from the car in the dim light just before sunset. It was a great way to end the last few daylight hours of the year.
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December 31, New Year's Eve day, the last day of 2020 I headed to the Coralville Dam on the Iowa River to take photos of Bald Eagles. They often fish in the tail-waters below the dam at this time of year and the past few weeks has been pretty good for photographers, until I got there anyway. This Eagle on the left was perched in a tree overlooking the water along with about half a dozen others in nearby trees. Along with a few other photographers we watched and waited for a couple of hours hoping they would fly down and grab a fish right in front of our cameras. Well, they didn't move. Not at all. I finally moved to another location farther down where the river was wider and got a few photos, but the Eagle were farther out from the shore. When I left, four hours after I arrived, this Eagle on the left was still perched on the same branch. [Click images to see larger] December 31, New Year's Eve day, the last day of 2020 at the Coralville Dam. I went to photograph Eagles, but while waiting for the Eagles I shot a few photos of the Canada Geese and Mallard ducks. I witnessed one of the strangest thing that I have seen - the geese and ducks with a fish in their beak and fight over them. I've never seen a goose or Mallard eat a fish. From Audubon.org - Canada Geese "Eats stems and shoots of grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, also seeds and berries; consumes many cultivated grains... Occasionally eats some insects, mollusks, crustaceans, and sometimes small fish." I'm not sure that the gees could swallow the fish in these photos.
[Click photos to see larger.] It was a dark overcast evening in North Iowa. As the sun was going down for a brief moment it sneaked out from under the clouds to paint a warm glow across the south-western horizon, and then settled in to the darkness. I have photographed this barn at other times with the milky way, but on this evening I was nearby at sunset, so I decided to try a couple of photos.
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