shot from the VA side at overlook 3 - there's a guy in the photo for scale... if you can find him. view huge

A few posts on Great Falls from visits past:

rainy day - june birds - deer along the tow path

And one of my favorite encounters with wildlife at Great Falls from June 2006 and this image was a finalist in The Nature Conservancy's photo contest, and was used on some of the calendar mailers as the cover of the mailer...

Explorer / Scout - somehow I went 3 years without an image in Explorer, and now 7 since July 2016... Anyone else have a weird change in that? I wonder if the 'rules' were changed...

From the first bridge along the way to Olmstead Island and the MD overlook.

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Shot from the Virginia side on Friday evening.

Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) and Tree Ferns towering into the mist.

Yarra Ranges, Victoria.

It really angers me to know that people are pushing so hard to bulldoze massive areas of this beautiful Mountain Ash forest and burn it to the ground. These areas (the proposed Great Forest National Park, near Toolangi) are also home to the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum, which is suffering greatly from the wasteful acts of logging old growth forests. Luckily, there are teams of dedicated field surveyors who search for Leddy's, and other threatened flora and fauna, within these logging coupes. If a Possum is located it can save a small section of forest around where it was sighted...however these 'safe zones' are nothing when the swift little fur-balls can move well over 200 meters a night.

Great Forest National Park, Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia

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from tonight just after sunset

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3 shot hdr (-2/0/+2) - D810 w/ 14-24mm f/2.8

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Great Forest National Park, Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia

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Great Falls from the Maryland side yesterday at sunrise. I've never quite done a pano of this view from this exact spot, including so much on the right... I wish I shot it with the camera vertically though, this is around 6 hdrs merged to a pano and then cropped for the middle 75% or so.

He made my day/week. See him on his previous pass when he missed...

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A Great Blue Heron at Great Falls National Park in Maryland. This was my first trip and it was great. The Falls are impressive but there was also a lot of bird activity.

On a little island up river from here there is a Heron Rookery, and one of the rangers said there are 100's of Heron. I sure saw a lot of em. Mid day at the main overlook there must have been 10 or more Heron actively fishing. I was at this spot twice, probably for a total of an hour and a half, and saw 2 or 3 Heron get a fish.

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Camera: Nikon D200, Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800, Aperture: f/6.3, Focal Length: 400 mm, ISO Speed: 100, Exposure Bias: 0/6 EV

Up on the main overlook today at Great Falls (Maryland side), this little fella was seeing the sights, from its owners backpack!

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Former Indonesian registered Bell 429 built in 2010, she still has the Indonesian flag on the tail and PK-WSA under the N reg.

Shipped to Hawaii in early 2020.

Central Highlands, Victoria.

Central Highlands, Victoria.

Finally managed a photo of this notoriously difficult to photograph species! These critically endangered marsupials are restricted to small patches of Mountain Ash forest in the Victorian Central Highlands region. Remaining populations are unfortunately under huge pressure from clear-fell logging and burning within these forests, and are declining at an alarming rate.

Turweston 07/07/2024 EGBT

Great Falls National Park in Maryland... It's raining like mad here today, but I'm holding out hope that it might nearly be over. I may head to Great Falls today and see if the river is bubbling over because of the rain...

From the signage:

Life was very different around the Great Falls Tavern during the canal era. The building before you began as a small lockhouse and was added onto twice until it became what you see today. The area around the tavern bustled with a community of over 100 people, including a post office. Passenger boats left here taking tourists on a leisurely overnight trip to Harpers Ferry, 50 miles up canal. After the great flood of 1880 the Great Falls Tavern became a private club until the National Park Service acquired it in 1938.

(2006_0623_D200_5673) D200 w/ tripod and 80-400mm @ 80mm...

There really aren't words that can express how I felt watching this guy.

I was watching him for an hour and a half just sitting in a tree. Then he flew by on this pass and missed the fish. He went back to the tree and I prayed he'd give it another try. He did. More pix to come.

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So I couldn't help but think of this shot and title by *Pete when I saw this and photographed it...

Great Falls National Park.

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Black Crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

This fella was just below one of the foot-bridges that lead you to the main overlook at Great Falls National Park. I watched him for a little while and he got this thing, a snake maybe. Within a couple minutes he had swallowed it. I'm bad with distances but he might have been 20 feet down (below bridge) and 30 feet up river.

D200 w/80-400mm(vr), ISO 500, @f5.6 and 1/200th on a monopod.

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Sywell 30/05/2015 EGBK/ORM

@ Great Falls National Park, MD-side.

Bunyip State Park, Victoria, Australia

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The Eagle lands with his prey on a rock in the middle of the Potomac.

From Great Falls National Park, Maryland. See more in my set.

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Bunyip State Park, Victoria, Australia

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I was waiting for one of the eagles to do something, when I spotted this little fella approaching me. I clicked off a couple of photos, he didn't flinch or react, and I knew it would be a good encounter. I managed to take about 7 photos. Here's one from a moment earlier.

The above is the second to last photo I got, when he finally eyeballed me. I took the picture, moved my head around the camera and made eye contact, and remained very still. He looked at me for a moment, and took a step over the log, and was gone just like that.

ps. I've seen one of these on or near this trail twice before but never for more than about 1/2 of a second, before the guy bolted off. Not even enough time to put a hand on my camera. I probably saw him this time for about 20 or 30 seconds...

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Great Forest National Park, Victoria, Australia

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Yarra Ranges, Victoria.

This shallow, pristine rainforest creek is home to the critically endangered Barred Galaxias (Galaxias fuscus), a stunning bright orange fish species, under threat from introduced Rainbow Trout and deforestation activity.

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The above is before he spotted me I think. If he did see me, he wasn't concerned, and took a bunch more steps TOWARDS me. He was probably about 30 feet from me here, and 25 or so in the other photo I've posted.

ps. I've seen one of these on or near this trail twice before but never for more than about 1/2 of a second, before the guy bolted off. Not even enough time to put a hand on my camera.

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Myrtle Beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) with a twisted fern and vine and moss-covered under-story.

Yarra Ranges, Victoria.

It really angers me to know that people are pushing so hard to bulldoze massive areas of this beautiful Mountain Ash forest and burn it to the ground. These areas (the proposed Great Forest National Park, near Toolangi) are also home to the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum, which is suffering greatly from the wasteful acts of logging old growth forests. Luckily, there are teams of dedicated field surveyors who search for Leddy's, and other threatened flora and fauna, within these logging coupes. If a Possum is located it can save a small section of forest around where it was sighted...however these 'safe zones' are nothing when the swift little fur-balls can move well over 200 meters a night.

Aeroport de Sabadell - LELL

Bunyip State Park, Victoria, Australia

Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.

Aeroport de Sabadell - LELL

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