today was another beautiful day in portland so we spent a while today walking around oaks bottom wildlife refuge. there were so many great things to see there… including a pair of bald eagles! they few right over our heads and perched in a tree. i couldn’t believe that for the second day in a row we had an eagle sighting.  unbelievable. 

on our way down the trail we noticed these painted patterns along the cracks in the pavement. it looks like someone is keeping track of them as they spread. interesting patterns.

here’s a recording from this afternoon.

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/05_17_09.mp3

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today was such a beautiful day. we spent this afternoon walking around part of a nature preserve on sauvie island. we saw and heard many different animals. the highlight by far was seeing a bald eagle nest with the head of the mother eagle poking out the top.  some nasty starlings were tormenting the eagles… it was kind of stressful.

here is a field recording of the area where we watched the eagle’s nest from. i think you can hear some baby eagles chirping away throughout.

(if you don’t have flash, listen here. otherwise, see below)

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/05_16.mp3