Seems like they’re all up to something.

The thick cloud cover continued this morning in Estabrook Park, but it got a little cooler, and the air was almost still, so it was a pretty good time to check on the wildlife.

I don’t know if she’s getting used to me, or she really wanted that fish she had just glimpsed, but the female belted kingfisher let me have a much nicer picture today than yesterday.

Meanwhile, the great horned owl upstream was really in no mood for pictures at all today.

These two great blue herons off the southern tip of the northern island appear to have caught their fill of fish for the morning, and they were now hard at work turning them into feathers and body heat.

High above the herons, this young Cooper’s hawk was searching for a songbird or squirrel with which it could do the same.

Back on our side of the river, this grey squirrel might have been more interested in keeping tabs on that hawk than in ducking out of my sight, so it let me get a nice closeup.

On my way back south, this winter wren also seemed more concerned with something else in the vicinity than with me, but it did not let on what that was.

Finally, as I swung by the pond on my way home, the wood duck drake that is still sticking around there, along with the pair of hens, was kind enough to drift to a halt so I could slow my shutter speed down enough to capture more of his pretty colors in the dim light available. “Thanks, Buddy.”