For this Sunday's outing Marilyn suggested we head across SR-520 to a park in Kirkland: Juanita Bay. The main goal was to use the Canon 300mm lens I'd rented for some long shots of exotic birds, but we weren't above using the zoom length on more prosaic fowl:

There was actually sort of a duckling convention at Juanita Bay: here we have a whole family nestled on a log:

Moving from cute to killer, we saw a whole bunch of herons that day, spear-fishing for food in the shallow marsh flats. Here, a Great Blue Heron waits patiently to impale a fish:

There was also apparently a family of Green Herons, of which we saw one member. The green is in reference to a small patch of color near the eye:

Finally, the 300mm really came in handy once we caught sight of a Bald Eagle (!) high up in a tree:

The rest of the pictures are here, and you can see Marilyn's set of the same day's shooting here.