Watery Wednesday at Blue Grass....

Mike had half the day off, so we went to Blue Grass looking for water fowl, giving me some "Watery Wednesday" shots! (I find it hard to keep track of what day of the week it is right now over the holidays!) I'll post some water first and the lovely grasses that grow all around these stripper pit lakes.
However, this came first.....we saw this hawk on the way there and even though we turned the car around and came back past him twice, he didn't even move! Not sure what he is looking at here, but it isn't me!

Here he turned his head.

Back to the water :-) I spooked this Great Blue Heron first thing when we stopped to take photos of some ducks we saw on one of the lakes......

.....actually they turned out to be Coots.
Didn't really see any other water fowl at all.

So I practiced taking photos of grasses and tried to capture hawks.

I like the big tall grasses that grow around these lakes.

Mike was playing with the manual focus here.....much more successfully than when I tried.

I like the light glinting off the cattails.

We wondered if this was a beaver lodge, or just a pile of debris.

As we left we saw a cat at a nearby farm sunning itself while watching the starlings in the trees.

I saw a lot of soaring birds in the distance, but these are the best shots of them over the meadows around the lakes.

Just couldn't get close enough to get anything better.

On the way home we took a back route to look for more hawks on poles and found this guy.

As he took off I snapped this quick shot that caught him straight on from the side. I'm just not quick enough on these birds that take off so fast. Mike is usually getting the car stopped and I'm bouncing around and can't get the shot in focus before it is too late. Will keep practicing!
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