22nd to 25th January

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

22 January; Vedder Mountain and some swans

23rd January; Vedder Mountain and an eagle

24 January, between cooking Tortilla Soup (an all day process) and bathing Fergus, I forgot to go outside all day long *facepalm* so...behold, the clean puppy...

25th January; Front and back views

Comments

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

Captivating pictures again: Vedder mountain, swans, eagle, clean Fergus make a nice blend. Your swans look quite different from ours. I'll post the only swan photo I've got so that you can see. :-)

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Fergus is so rarely clean that I thought I should share the pics of him while it lasts...

[cat63.livejournal.com]

The skies where you live are amazingly dramatic - such patterns in the clouds1

Gorgeous eagle picture! And those swans are clearly a different species from any we get in this country - they look a bit like Bewick's swans, but with red and black beaks rather than the yellow the Bewick's have.

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, our skies are sometimes very dramatic, at least when they aren't flat grey.

Our swans are Trumpeter Swans, we are at the Southern edge of their winter range, they're mostly in Canada and Alaska.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Our swans are Trumpeter Swans

Thank you :-)

We get Mute swans here all year round and the Bewick's and Whooper swans are winter visitors. And there are some imported Australian black swans in a few places :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Very pretty again - I'd never have called those swans, if I'd seen them though, I'd have thought they were geese!

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, they don't look very regal and swan like when they're plodding around in the mud. But they are swans, Trumpeter Swans. Did you see any of them when you were in Alaska?

[rosie55.livejournal.com]

The eagle is fantastic! And hello, my old friend silo!
I've added some English swans to scene_again - yours look like trumpeters to me, I think all of the ones I have taken are mute swans, though some may be Bewicks, as they come in to the Wetlands Trust near here!

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

Thank you, the eagle was in good form. I did so enjoy all the swans around here. They look so much better when they aren't in corn fields, but that's all I get to see of our winter Trumpeter Swans.

[mav-fan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, the eagle was being very dignified and regal!
Fergus is still tired from his big bath, but he was way too stinky.

Meanwhile...Harry has just seen a bright blue eye in the mirror shard, but it must have been because he had been reading about Dumbledore in the newspaper.