Mudan River (牡丹江)' (known locally as the Northeast Creek)

On my way into the marshy walk toward the eagles nest I passed this small spring outflow near old route 7 (power and phone lines reflecting across the surface) and noticed the 'cress-like' new growth of green exorbitantly rushing into the perilous cold days of early March - and like my newly favoured chinese poets of old jade and willow I want to wax lyrical about 'the sound of wind on greenly minted Cress down by the Mudan River (牡丹江)'

Eagle Broods

I accidentally took some photographs on the camera's memory rather than on the SD memory card which I inadvertently forgot to put into the my FZ200 - and remembered to upload them this morning.  On a nice snowy day on the 25th of February I wondered if the eagles were starting to brood again in their gigantic old stick pile of a nest - and indeed they were.  I have seen photographs taken by intrepid explorers of nature from pre-mounted cameras high above the nest itself  showing them nestled into the snow laden nest but this old guy is not about to climb the old marsh tree and mount a 'sky' camera - so for now this is it. (I have bought a multiplier lens for my camera but even though it is optical it does not do as well as using digitally enhanced zoom as above - which might be me not knowing how to do settings for the added X zoom - if any reader knows about same please comment below).

Spring Shines Through Melting Drops

Spring Is In Flight

Down River As Ice Decays