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Burke Lake, Fairfax County Virginia

10/30/2014

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I like walking around Burke Lake.  It is a 4.5 mile loop and with my side bits comes out to a five-mile hike.  I hadn't been out locally for a while, so chose this hike to do on a beautiful day. 

First up, a shot of the lake and the colors.  The colors weren't amazing, but they were quite nice.
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Two Canada geese on the lake in front of trees in Fall
And, how bad a fisherman do you have to be to get two of the same rigs in a tree.  Well, here is a photo of two bobbers, two snap swivels, and two of the same rubber lures all in a bunch hanging in space from a tree.  Someone was having a bad day.
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Bundle of fishing gear hanging from a tree. Bummer I could not reach it to throw it away. Fishing gear in trees is hard on the birds that get caught up in it.
Things started to get a bit more art-like after this, as I didn't find standard wildlife shots.  So next up is a yellow jacket.  It was basking on a leaf, and I had on my telephoto lens, so got the best pic I could without changing lenses.  Kinda a good thing, as it flew off seconds after this photo.
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A yellow jacket. Which one, I am not quite sure of, but it looks like an Eastern yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons)
This next photo, of an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), I was dubious about when I took it.  It had all the hallmarks of a great shot of a squirrel with fall foliage behind it, but seemed impossible to get the lighting right.  I think I did okay with it.
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Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) on a sunny fall day
Two final pics.  The first is of a great blue heron, a species I continually say I will stop posting pics of.  But they are mostly gone from this area now, headed south, so I post this wishing them well on their journeys.
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A great blue heron fishing at Burke Lake
And then there is this.  I don't post much art here, but from a photo I took today here is a sumi-e interpretation of fall in northern Virginia.
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Fall as I see it with sumi-e art
4 Comments
ARWallace
10/31/2014 04:51:45 am

Fortunately you are not trying to make a living as an artist. best to stick to bat biology.

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ARWallace
10/31/2014 04:53:08 am

Nice to see the return of the Mammals to the Blog.
A very acceptable shot.

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Keith
10/31/2014 06:10:28 am

All great field biologists delve into art at least occasionally, yourself included!

If I remember correctly the only thing that survived from your collections when your ship sank was a box of your drawing.

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Linda
11/1/2014 01:08:41 am

Being a bit of an aspiring artist myself, I thought the art piece was worthwhile of a frame and a place on the dining room wall.

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