Had some company last weekend, so we rented a pontoon boat down at the lake, for an afternoon. Bought a lot of beer and a lot of BBQ. Cranked up the engine and headed off onto the water.

Our first stop was the osprey nest where I took the previously posted pix, but nobody was home. We chugged about 100 yards down the shore and parked in a little cove. Within seconds, a bald eagle jumped out of the trees near us and flew away. Then, a few minutes later, another one did the same. Then, a few minutes later, an immature bald eagle flew over us. Wild. Those things are HUGE, close up.

Over the course of the afternoon we saw an uncountable number of great blue heron, some angry red-winged blackbirds and, a bunch more osprey - and we got to see some of the osprey diving to snatch fish out of the water.

All this just two miles from our house. Incredible.

No pix, however. An iPhone camera just can't focus fast enough to catch an eagle on the wing.