I finally made it back out to the island and was able to get up close to one of the birds with the yellow tipped tail. I can now definitely say it was a cedar waxwing. Of course, while I was out there, I saw another bird that I couldn’t identify. It was shaped kind of like a blue jay but it was darkly colored on top and white on the neck and belly. I think I’m just going to breakdown and buy one of those bird identifying pamphlets.

Last weekend Richard was up at the camp so I got him to take some pictures of the ospreys, so we were able to positively identify them. He’s kind of busy right now so I suppose it will be a little while before we see those pics.

While we were driving around camp the other day, Dad and I saw a rather large bird on the road. I was prepared to be really impressed, but in the end I figured it was just another of these turkey vultures that seem to be taking over the skies around here.

[Joe]

Oops, forgot the ‘Not-So’.

As you can see, the rear thwart has been rotting for a while now and needed to be replaced. The problem was that Old Town only makes one of that type of piece for all it’s canoes, so it became a bit of a project to get it to fit. You can also see that we had some ‘guests’ using the canoe.

Hmmm.

The finished work

I’m afraid we’re going to have to replace the yolk as well, at some point.

We went out to the RiverHouse Restaurant again today. Along the way, near the dam, there’s a couple of rather large bird’s nests. I’m not sure what type of bird that is, but I did get a video, so you can hear it’s call:

The other nest.

I’ve always meant to get a picture of this.

[Joe]