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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Shep and I slept in a bit, and left for some birding
around 8:30 a.m. on a rainy 36º sort of day.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCKYIG7FFLgdSmlwLf7C3tVqujKiDxkNbfh6XzWcDwialjBRILSaQ42HKHu1LMtCE7lLd4hKZcfHMeXX5DQjlBMmB-9sVuNtIJgFb-J2XzwF_rXY_bl4Nrcqcs_ssuqX_r0YBDskBpw08QIv_EdUjbz4R9uLo7iiyvVtyWa99o3pTfURN3KvGbUIZAA/s2861/IMG_0173%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1862" data-original-width="2861" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCKYIG7FFLgdSmlwLf7C3tVqujKiDxkNbfh6XzWcDwialjBRILSaQ42HKHu1LMtCE7lLd4hKZcfHMeXX5DQjlBMmB-9sVuNtIJgFb-J2XzwF_rXY_bl4Nrcqcs_ssuqX_r0YBDskBpw08QIv_EdUjbz4R9uLo7iiyvVtyWa99o3pTfURN3KvGbUIZAA/w640-h416/IMG_0173%20(2).JPG" title="'Merican Bald Eagle" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We started the day's birding behind our duplex on Amchitka Drive, where
we heard a Pacific Wren in full song on the cliff behind the house.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> A Bald Eagle
watched us while we were looking for the Pacific Wren. He didn't seem too
concerned . . </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6XfiCB-O_fFavCEPmgI206-MV_L-ZN9zJCuaKTGm2-0ESvmBe0zOit8THafrdEIToLybWfc0yFLZG-TAZMNUal1qBmA35FFTOjlhY8_Kd7V8srfHSWOrxrJCLjwk5cl92MAjmwkApBzr7lH0I1AGHctTwhOWjNx3k6SufHmEyQphOMG4ARDf3eBo1tw/s488/Pacific_Wren_Aleutian_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="488" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6XfiCB-O_fFavCEPmgI206-MV_L-ZN9zJCuaKTGm2-0ESvmBe0zOit8THafrdEIToLybWfc0yFLZG-TAZMNUal1qBmA35FFTOjlhY8_Kd7V8srfHSWOrxrJCLjwk5cl92MAjmwkApBzr7lH0I1AGHctTwhOWjNx3k6SufHmEyQphOMG4ARDf3eBo1tw/w640-h640/Pacific_Wren_Aleutian_12.jpg" title="Credit: Classic Collection of North American Birds at www.birds-of-north-america.net" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I did not get a photo of the wren, but these birds are the large
Aleutian subspecies, and their song is somewhat ‘throatier’ than that of our
Pacific Northwest birds, and they are half-again the size of our western
Washington birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggeAzc9npd-RqfECYkQvOnExtPGeLqFa18lCjrOCY1lJS5O3HHktnOrqI2AmH437zT_LYIMM6LIBEH1ndP_bBmEzUeSavC_pZ_Vb0HAZGRJqjKpdh7_JZs6F2_93ZBYgcfAnqrdBWEa8HOuXmWYufrREV_DzqubGddHtRx2O0N148v1qjuYjg9S0Qc6g/s3504/IMG_0182%20(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="3504" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggeAzc9npd-RqfECYkQvOnExtPGeLqFa18lCjrOCY1lJS5O3HHktnOrqI2AmH437zT_LYIMM6LIBEH1ndP_bBmEzUeSavC_pZ_Vb0HAZGRJqjKpdh7_JZs6F2_93ZBYgcfAnqrdBWEa8HOuXmWYufrREV_DzqubGddHtRx2O0N148v1qjuYjg9S0Qc6g/w640-h482/IMG_0182%20(3).JPG" title="Don't buy bird seed with Red Milo . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A
Grey-crowned Rosy Finch at the Seal Drive "feeder". Again, the red
milo is worthless as a bird seed. Even the rats won't eat it. We birded around town, hoping to find something new that
has stopped in during its northward migration.<span>
</span>Unfortunately, the winds have all been out of the north and east, which
doesn’t bode well for getting numbers of Asian bird species blown to our little
rock.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBJYoN1X1Y3eLkLFp7PEPr9jsw3JyZ3gb32NWBTqTThqocJh0jRr8eBzVRjXvWDB5542AZNwn9Os5Le10M-LWPJbKNAArsau5WoP1J6qgTbbJUF8fZ0_87KARWanjH1Oa1SrRjBIsBUNFN_ww0pymk67FSJSOCy7r_1PtLDK9vx38DOrdGL_nLSWo3w/s2186/IMG_0190%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1315" data-original-width="2186" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBJYoN1X1Y3eLkLFp7PEPr9jsw3JyZ3gb32NWBTqTThqocJh0jRr8eBzVRjXvWDB5542AZNwn9Os5Le10M-LWPJbKNAArsau5WoP1J6qgTbbJUF8fZ0_87KARWanjH1Oa1SrRjBIsBUNFN_ww0pymk67FSJSOCy7r_1PtLDK9vx38DOrdGL_nLSWo3w/w640-h384/IMG_0190%20(2).JPG" title="Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>We
were surprised that the Pine Siskin was listed as 'rare' on Adak. Not *too*
surprised, as there are very few trees on the island, but the paucity of
reports of the species may well be due to the paucity of birders who go out to
the end of civilization on the Aleutians . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRHv_tM1s20tn2DOnrtGeeER7rut7xRlzNU15_UwaN6eTu4mzWK3SpL_1XqpLX5anzaQYUeDacuXAx2McgtRGPjsCe0kvHmzn3UaUytr9b-vH9WtQDhNdh293cwlJ57mxfKlcq2lw10qQLe_byFK8ncW9XMo-ZRw-eunPfTeQjf1A12SNWE0t-c3nOA/s6000/IMG_0195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRHv_tM1s20tn2DOnrtGeeER7rut7xRlzNU15_UwaN6eTu4mzWK3SpL_1XqpLX5anzaQYUeDacuXAx2McgtRGPjsCe0kvHmzn3UaUytr9b-vH9WtQDhNdh293cwlJ57mxfKlcq2lw10qQLe_byFK8ncW9XMo-ZRw-eunPfTeQjf1A12SNWE0t-c3nOA/w640-h426/IMG_0195.JPG" title="Wilderness birding at its best" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>We checked
along the old waterfront, where we spotted a Black Oystercatcher using a sunken
piece of equipment as a roost in the mostly-abandoned harbor at Adak.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5K1klZ_-dLaIomkDTQVLGb7UU91f11m9av8-8KXJnDe2ZsNkAJHKJdJileosEjmAwFGYwrog3PtoozeYUFQeqnrhip_oMDAqE3DjrTmA8u8-QURdcLidb3Hiriq5p64X-0yv0WK7f2qKfOWHm0nEslvDPGhxfuJcARqKkTNheRT2Qtotf67KNTOBJNg/s2404/IMG_0198%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="2404" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5K1klZ_-dLaIomkDTQVLGb7UU91f11m9av8-8KXJnDe2ZsNkAJHKJdJileosEjmAwFGYwrog3PtoozeYUFQeqnrhip_oMDAqE3DjrTmA8u8-QURdcLidb3Hiriq5p64X-0yv0WK7f2qKfOWHm0nEslvDPGhxfuJcARqKkTNheRT2Qtotf67KNTOBJNg/w640-h536/IMG_0198%20(2).JPG" title="This Semipalmated Plover has partially-webbed toes, and a yellow ring around its eye, which a Common Ringed Plover wouldn't have" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Making our
way past the airport beach and the mouth of , we sorted through every sighting
of Semipalmated Plovers, hoping to find a similarly-plumaged Common Ringed
Plover blown in from Asia, but to no avail.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4vfg5zK8Z53EVc8VfAtRL1ZeODJhERSpp0pniCMZtq0RyDOJk3XTm7ama2FcMQoeOWMK20fKp2EEeb1BwRIUP-dG2wkOWJAR6PW8vXw7O_qj8zp92SLYNNb099LC33x8zI8KEIX59uZbqDxR2wGURk2ViAkIhnb0j1eMUoV-v84KYRu82KSNe9Nh1g/s4327/IMG_0200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2605" data-original-width="4327" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4vfg5zK8Z53EVc8VfAtRL1ZeODJhERSpp0pniCMZtq0RyDOJk3XTm7ama2FcMQoeOWMK20fKp2EEeb1BwRIUP-dG2wkOWJAR6PW8vXw7O_qj8zp92SLYNNb099LC33x8zI8KEIX59uZbqDxR2wGURk2ViAkIhnb0j1eMUoV-v84KYRu82KSNe9Nh1g/w640-h386/IMG_0200.JPG" title="Glaucous-winged Gulls ( Larus glaucescens)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>Above is a pair of
Glaucous-winged Gulls. Back in Puget Sound, birders are constantly puzzling over
hybrids between this species and Western Gulls. Here on Adak, we work under the
presumption that these are ALL Glaucous-wings.<span>
</span>I realize that I’ve been a bit ‘tough’ on our Washington State gulls,
where some of my ‘mentors’ suggest that the birds having even a little dark
pigment in their primaries skews the ID toward a “hybrid”.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGKDEWqrhnAv04aw00KKiemPP1NtGbUP10mUgltuXQukxmjbFEkUHEpFen0JF3mXSeVipNGPH6ypTSl8rgKyEHAdqnyiWilpEfWtxE0e4BMbVwAYzqeh21bYc9x2bys-HAsJUtoeahg1wfsfauG8QoSppUQ6San8ilA0n8ihLPaojp7IIJRmYN_qrsQ/s3321/IMG_0205.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2203" data-original-width="3321" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGKDEWqrhnAv04aw00KKiemPP1NtGbUP10mUgltuXQukxmjbFEkUHEpFen0JF3mXSeVipNGPH6ypTSl8rgKyEHAdqnyiWilpEfWtxE0e4BMbVwAYzqeh21bYc9x2bys-HAsJUtoeahg1wfsfauG8QoSppUQ6San8ilA0n8ihLPaojp7IIJRmYN_qrsQ/w640-h424/IMG_0205.JPG" title="The relatively dark primary tips might just be an artifact of the lighting or camera settings" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Seeing these ostensibly ‘pure’ Glaucous-wings with
varying shades of light-to-darker grey primary feathers leads me to consider
that many (most?) of the ‘questionable’ birds I’m seeing in Puget Sound appear
to be no more hybridized than these.<span>
</span>Some are, of course . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KSR219P7i6uunGrz9PpIzggkG-7U3H13O0BoO6-dcoN4IjKw875o7xHObODWxyF2RCb1PYKCc2KwQRN-Wo0juOD1dYbrW7Um0K0E1RJpAU1IrF85nV6jCPCboI1LFl9Dr975_jL4y3fAO581Ac-f5TZlecZ9SXMFmBPBg3pkXlEGHdTU3RRcR084nA/s1156/IMG_20220520_122858%20Shep%20on%20Lake%20Betty%20trail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KSR219P7i6uunGrz9PpIzggkG-7U3H13O0BoO6-dcoN4IjKw875o7xHObODWxyF2RCb1PYKCc2KwQRN-Wo0juOD1dYbrW7Um0K0E1RJpAU1IrF85nV6jCPCboI1LFl9Dr975_jL4y3fAO581Ac-f5TZlecZ9SXMFmBPBg3pkXlEGHdTU3RRcR084nA/w640-h480/IMG_20220520_122858%20Shep%20on%20Lake%20Betty%20trail.jpg" title="Shep on the trail to Betty Lake" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Around noon, we decided to drive over the hill to Finger
Bay, which is an interesting little fjord extending about 2.5 km from Kuluk
Bay.<span> </span>At the end of the unpaved road, a
trail leads up the Creek to Lake Betty.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVV8l_relRmGeFsqz5lfm6X9Xn6WWzDmzDBwhHUjqOCnpwwFD2z7WiUAOEcR8AWsqVR1CqEkmcnXVJPWnjmFgvli5K_rC8SSSJZX_lmYKYBByHmp0K4u0g2-9b5VWaSOYPvz9do9Ft7c78QTUmrovaMnGXiT1aoX9nRL4ilXc4Auae4vtTnFLNwsnlsg/s1063/IMG_20220520_122844%20Finger%20Creek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1063" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVV8l_relRmGeFsqz5lfm6X9Xn6WWzDmzDBwhHUjqOCnpwwFD2z7WiUAOEcR8AWsqVR1CqEkmcnXVJPWnjmFgvli5K_rC8SSSJZX_lmYKYBByHmp0K4u0g2-9b5VWaSOYPvz9do9Ft7c78QTUmrovaMnGXiT1aoX9nRL4ilXc4Auae4vtTnFLNwsnlsg/w640-h480/IMG_20220520_122844%20Finger%20Creek.jpg" title="Finger Creek drains out of Lake Betty." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>Finger
Creek drains out of Lake Betty and empties into Finger Bay.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXQTQWG_1iNy5OVgmvqtWYg2KF7ta1AHf1gEK3qBbFyJLpnfu_buOUJmUowquQHZiruF-95TvOulbDTS6dZIj8I0-tOGCKrHrTqnGSe4BaxpMgvMJoH18u9Ma9XMrRJBpBUNL6BRDRdSAFg1XxkICeOWTLT3fhFN52qlXOpGZAGrpxDWQxS-mtPkttw/s867/IMG_20220520_123109%20Lake%20Betty%20Trail%20-%20wood%20pipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXQTQWG_1iNy5OVgmvqtWYg2KF7ta1AHf1gEK3qBbFyJLpnfu_buOUJmUowquQHZiruF-95TvOulbDTS6dZIj8I0-tOGCKrHrTqnGSe4BaxpMgvMJoH18u9Ma9XMrRJBpBUNL6BRDRdSAFg1XxkICeOWTLT3fhFN52qlXOpGZAGrpxDWQxS-mtPkttw/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_123109%20Lake%20Betty%20Trail%20-%20wood%20pipe.jpg" title="No worries about lead poisoning in these pipes" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The trail to Lake Betty followed along the old
water line from the lake to the head of the bay. The pipe is made of wooden
slats held together with iron rings, and is in amazingly good condition after
80 years. Not that it conveys water nowadays...<span> </span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2-KqT2w8gZ_ao0v30hf3pXiN94kTAusMI71YL-DufSVOpjeMnfNdFG4-dIYJEQ6mKSFiMPfNJEi_c0Nbj4dDoG6l13vFg7D6b-a9JntnfzZNxZAxohWGaiJCP7PrrSDuJt2DQ8sou858xqSQxJSAQ2sT1alYmxAxfOw69a_QC-OvvL6n_coQQ7ycsg/s867/IMG_20220520_123704%20Lake%20Betty%20Falls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2-KqT2w8gZ_ao0v30hf3pXiN94kTAusMI71YL-DufSVOpjeMnfNdFG4-dIYJEQ6mKSFiMPfNJEi_c0Nbj4dDoG6l13vFg7D6b-a9JntnfzZNxZAxohWGaiJCP7PrrSDuJt2DQ8sou858xqSQxJSAQ2sT1alYmxAxfOw69a_QC-OvvL6n_coQQ7ycsg/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_123704%20Lake%20Betty%20Falls.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shep approaching the end of the trail at Lake Betty. The
falls are immediately below the outlet of the lake.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HjBPhWuwKz0aaeQ83MZ-6sfzwqsnv97AbcGBREdbk6JryV45WJfkokPKbtOCQtHx65Wi7FqNpikwTE3T5DgcxfoMhDNQIUqyCvO3fGfyRm8jxl8x4spc_xybaH8-eaHT5YX_q00Zn3GODoLYtbj7JPgEDpkOp0OccJ9a2_ofmk0eiL5-BHYh2m-VKw/s1102/IMG_20220520_124155%20Lake%20Betty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1102" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HjBPhWuwKz0aaeQ83MZ-6sfzwqsnv97AbcGBREdbk6JryV45WJfkokPKbtOCQtHx65Wi7FqNpikwTE3T5DgcxfoMhDNQIUqyCvO3fGfyRm8jxl8x4spc_xybaH8-eaHT5YX_q00Zn3GODoLYtbj7JPgEDpkOp0OccJ9a2_ofmk0eiL5-BHYh2m-VKw/w640-h382/IMG_20220520_124155%20Lake%20Betty.jpg" title="I never did find out who Betty was . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span>Lake Betty</span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaQnOcW2KI4tgl9bPayjggkarDATrfIaCDEBYGYzT8-A8PMUTqZcpYrBBUtOU8aWY1KztN3vvgL2xvAVYzDPXHqD-ZTUvTLTXV-Ot3DfJgd-3VsiTgN7yTyM2EmEMOzemmvzYWXfHxIZp90fSNi6vYeTWUB2qpqSfBncfwBoziHxNutUj4H2hawpcfA/s867/IMG_20220520_124433%20Dwarf%20Willow%20blossoms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaQnOcW2KI4tgl9bPayjggkarDATrfIaCDEBYGYzT8-A8PMUTqZcpYrBBUtOU8aWY1KztN3vvgL2xvAVYzDPXHqD-ZTUvTLTXV-Ot3DfJgd-3VsiTgN7yTyM2EmEMOzemmvzYWXfHxIZp90fSNi6vYeTWUB2qpqSfBncfwBoziHxNutUj4H2hawpcfA/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_124433%20Dwarf%20Willow%20blossoms.jpg" title="The Arctic Willow is adapted to the rigors of the tundra" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There were a number of flowers blooming, as well as the "trees". All of 2 inches (5 cm) tall! <span></span>I
think these Dwarf Willow blossoms are on tundra willow - <i>Salix arctica<span> </span></i></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJekf11V67X1wd5ml0R00pXEo6gTr1hAJHiIxonrh8J9nn33chwq8DvzNxJb2KJZzInDu2I4QIlBM-aELCez5lx_0kG9zFL6e1R_X_MKdeH7XI3ZYc7pdnr0LQEPBR1KcZFuUsN5_mHahPpbOGxmprXR1Fj0BCxgN_hTaFbPhCyZfOxxURcaCuUVUKg/s867/IMG_20220520_125502%20Anemone%20at%20Betty%20Lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJekf11V67X1wd5ml0R00pXEo6gTr1hAJHiIxonrh8J9nn33chwq8DvzNxJb2KJZzInDu2I4QIlBM-aELCez5lx_0kG9zFL6e1R_X_MKdeH7XI3ZYc7pdnr0LQEPBR1KcZFuUsN5_mHahPpbOGxmprXR1Fj0BCxgN_hTaFbPhCyZfOxxURcaCuUVUKg/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_125502%20Anemone%20at%20Betty%20Lake.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">This is the local <span></span>Anemone
or May Flower: <i>Anemone narcissiflora</i><span>. The </span>Aleut name for the plant is chix'udangix'<span>. </span>According
to "<a href="http://unimak.us/plants.shtml" target="_blank">Plants of the Unimak Area</a>" the Roots were boiled and juices used
to treat hemorrhaging, and its white blossoms were once used as fishing lures.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oH6ioe7V_64NLIeiCtAxOT1nzKstI-bkvRyibtL6fHhbaGH1ikMVNssZXOVXMF3qcUE0xZ8aHGlXYtdmVPOhrYBQirb5qIBMJJ0HiCrvyr9T9F5MwiDqtqas9sRwLKcrr4uM3DdveguxRT45EXr0EgaMyvs3M16X4jXNX2I7YFsFPZ4YJmq6_Ji3BQ/s867/IMG_20220520_124720%20Raven%20Nest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oH6ioe7V_64NLIeiCtAxOT1nzKstI-bkvRyibtL6fHhbaGH1ikMVNssZXOVXMF3qcUE0xZ8aHGlXYtdmVPOhrYBQirb5qIBMJJ0HiCrvyr9T9F5MwiDqtqas9sRwLKcrr4uM3DdveguxRT45EXr0EgaMyvs3M16X4jXNX2I7YFsFPZ4YJmq6_Ji3BQ/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_124720%20Raven%20Nest.jpg" title="The nest was tucked into the clefts of the rock on the far side of the canyon" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In the
gorge below the outlet of the lake and above the falls, I found a Raven's nest
with at least 2 nestlings. It is always a good day when you can interact with
Raven!</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUOpPB3E8HTMhABsl0-AYRDN1_fkNFNh8U-R7P5zEEG9eykaypIGzhbecLGltRPGS-j29GTGnECR1bk6ffi1iCxrjEV_0NoEPuuRAqyt2XsT9ce452AmV88KEgAE1p2yhEdQjpSCwv2bmd1l2Db3Q98pJWUYOm_S_Xp2tG8nv07a4BczQHcA8IpylpXQ/s867/IMG_20220520_124456%20Pink%20Flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUOpPB3E8HTMhABsl0-AYRDN1_fkNFNh8U-R7P5zEEG9eykaypIGzhbecLGltRPGS-j29GTGnECR1bk6ffi1iCxrjEV_0NoEPuuRAqyt2XsT9ce452AmV88KEgAE1p2yhEdQjpSCwv2bmd1l2Db3Q98pJWUYOm_S_Xp2tG8nv07a4BczQHcA8IpylpXQ/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_124456%20Pink%20Flower.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We enjoyed the hike and the flowers for a bit, then headed back toward the ‘main’ birding spots, stopping
by the Contractors’ Marsh, but not finding much new in the way of birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWCRg6oQDHOYS7lA-h1n5YBcRQth0rmXZ64NT2LWHAMlT3H9NYuGkSmJPag4TnHoekcDkBsIpM4QHcTAd8S035jEVonmlWZ-nAJn8oO_cbafKxcWaUeG7k0P3sT7d190BoML5xryup5WxmAKYr8gPDYlFpqwZCQmr9RWg0RcSB_EpZwaSVpWRcEFsLQ/s1156/IMG_20220520_165833%20Caltha%20palustris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWCRg6oQDHOYS7lA-h1n5YBcRQth0rmXZ64NT2LWHAMlT3H9NYuGkSmJPag4TnHoekcDkBsIpM4QHcTAd8S035jEVonmlWZ-nAJn8oO_cbafKxcWaUeG7k0P3sT7d190BoML5xryup5WxmAKYr8gPDYlFpqwZCQmr9RWg0RcSB_EpZwaSVpWRcEFsLQ/w640-h480/IMG_20220520_165833%20Caltha%20palustris.jpg" title="Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the Marsh were blooming Marsh Marigolds (<i>Caltha palustris</i>). This forb's <span></span>Aleut Name is given as
anim kangag'a. According to the above source, its roots were chewed for strength."<span>
</span>The plant is considered poisonous if not cooked.</span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We hadn't seen too many birds this morning, so decided to make our way toward Lake Andrew, where we arrived
at the old Navy Rec Center. Astonishingly, a fire had burned right up to the building, without causing apparent damage.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYLsMkUnUvy7wnNmkTZs9GERQJU4XegVhP9jzCoh4Cat1wo-AVlm_safyBD1vdfamnBj1AsupkfOFr98OQLO5fu0O3TcLK82Lkws-Lchxmt27ktyQB1h948yyjN7QLNcoAt5D59a0oICxpSndo9UNR9h6RYwj8OoFdBJl6KU5MuJBhX4_oBDHweZV92w/s1104/IMG_20220520_170005%20Recreation%20Center.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1104" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYLsMkUnUvy7wnNmkTZs9GERQJU4XegVhP9jzCoh4Cat1wo-AVlm_safyBD1vdfamnBj1AsupkfOFr98OQLO5fu0O3TcLK82Lkws-Lchxmt27ktyQB1h948yyjN7QLNcoAt5D59a0oICxpSndo9UNR9h6RYwj8OoFdBJl6KU5MuJBhX4_oBDHweZV92w/w640-h480/IMG_20220520_170005%20Recreation%20Center.jpg" title="Burn, Baby, Burn!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The
old Recreation Center is north of the town above Andrew Lake. The blacked area is
from a recent (2 weeks ago) fire caused by the contractors disposing of UXO
(unexploded ordnance) and burning off the entire area around Mount Adagdak.
This fire eliminated nesting cover over several square miles, but the tundra
grasses were already beginning to re-sprout, and will certainly provide good forage for
Aleutian Cackling Geese this fall.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7O5Kh6D8mL9f-02T9gr3frr1IP2H60BhxM7HL8vi13fSBop9TiyLklS1sOCSKsptjFQM5-CGgMkYBdIluYQxdFZDKnLAmQTsNez56v9O2iUZKp4YpP8El_ryPXBWTA44Gje_oWR_It9SsnOJoGQxinLV9msKi6q41CgWsXuPzmOKllVhJ9jNdiw8RQ/s6000/IMG_0225.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7O5Kh6D8mL9f-02T9gr3frr1IP2H60BhxM7HL8vi13fSBop9TiyLklS1sOCSKsptjFQM5-CGgMkYBdIluYQxdFZDKnLAmQTsNez56v9O2iUZKp4YpP8El_ryPXBWTA44Gje_oWR_It9SsnOJoGQxinLV9msKi6q41CgWsXuPzmOKllVhJ9jNdiw8RQ/w640-h426/IMG_0225.JPG" title="Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) among the intertidal rocks" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lake had few birds on it, and the tundra habitat had been scorched which precluded much avian activity, so we returned to Clam Lagoon. Here's another shot
of a Black Oystercatcher. How can I resist taking photos of an
all-black bird with a glaring red bill, red eyes, and pink feet?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdo2BUUTjyUa7Uq8DRJsio8qCzin9rIThX844Z9remp_SXOHPrdtfLyUHEBPe4EwKpXhn5TVlmTRkdDRxHms6aqbTw7p1beLCHs-1bJHIWhjv6li6aRQRFFR9k8xEv68QjAAg8HYHX3JxuSAFFLJWZ6d_RAXJyFmAMGN4DLsg3cD6dDk2XetW59-piwQ/s2502/IMG_0232%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2502" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdo2BUUTjyUa7Uq8DRJsio8qCzin9rIThX844Z9remp_SXOHPrdtfLyUHEBPe4EwKpXhn5TVlmTRkdDRxHms6aqbTw7p1beLCHs-1bJHIWhjv6li6aRQRFFR9k8xEv68QjAAg8HYHX3JxuSAFFLJWZ6d_RAXJyFmAMGN4DLsg3cD6dDk2XetW59-piwQ/w640-h390/IMG_0232%20(2).JPG" title="Awwww . . . So cute!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span>There were
"just" the usual birds at the Lagoon, as well as many dozens of Sea Otters in Clam Lagoon. Most of them were Moms with
half-to-mostly-grown kits. </span></span>Sam Brayshaw and Steve Noseworthy believe they may have
seen a Gray-tailed Tattler at Clam Lagoon that we attempted to find again this
evening without success.<span> </span>We will try to
relocate tomorrow for a confirmed ID.</span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEfsmPyrFKevgQbzr_s2PjFcZ87eAswV31-YMp-DDOWQGP79EDWZUu3iagBafoG8GLSpfBS6_XuqPQZhhIvUn6vsSeGLTCYp6RUaRvknrwF5VvThBY95zKJsuQFrbkddOVLAlFTIleeNlSfPb_oY33mGj8ZQeh3jnFsKa3dK5TCTwb4T5p3_jE_D_0Q/s1120/IMG_20220520_202012%20Adak%20Store.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1120" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEfsmPyrFKevgQbzr_s2PjFcZ87eAswV31-YMp-DDOWQGP79EDWZUu3iagBafoG8GLSpfBS6_XuqPQZhhIvUn6vsSeGLTCYp6RUaRvknrwF5VvThBY95zKJsuQFrbkddOVLAlFTIleeNlSfPb_oY33mGj8ZQeh3jnFsKa3dK5TCTwb4T5p3_jE_D_0Q/w640-h420/IMG_20220520_202012%20Adak%20Store.jpg" title="Definitely NOT a Kroger's . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">After a couple of days of cooking and making sandwiches
without butter, we stopped at the local grocery when we got back to town.<span> </span>There had been a Pizza Hut in the place when
the Navy was here, but it had been abandoned and was re-purposed as the local
store.<span> </span>It is only open from 5-7 pm on
non-airplane days (Wednesdays and Saturdays) because the clerk is also the TSA
Agent and doesn’t work on Plane Day!<span>
</span>Shep attempted to buy a pound of butter from the full case that we saw
in the cooler, but she wouldn’t sell him any because the butter hadn’t been
entered into their cash register system.<span>
</span>We offered to pay the last price of when they had butter in inventory.<span> </span>No dice.<span>
</span>We offered to pay an extra $5, and she called the store owner who just
said no . . . !!!</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was no arguing, so he bought a quart of corn oil
for $11 and will have to make do.<span> </span>He
also bought a bottle of shampoo (he has hair) for $12, only to find that other
people had left barely-used bottles of the stuff in a bathroom cupboard.<span> </span>He left his there as well when our Adak visit
was over.<span> </span>If you rent from Aleutian
Outfitters, don't bring your own sh'poo...</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4hm_dGSFOZ_-PSSb5MasM7sysKKhUvgiVRT6nNhZDKfBsu1yF0dH6hHfR-Af7IhLU0aKf1ptG2yAaD4apsvVdvfpwArLXETALnHFKB5iaLI5fJEIpaYhu1yNiychYB4tZwOa2D8NAuRznmTlPXquNzn7643IzlnigN4E5I535dE7GpTF1rZuS4AEHQ/s550/underground-bar-grill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="550" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4hm_dGSFOZ_-PSSb5MasM7sysKKhUvgiVRT6nNhZDKfBsu1yF0dH6hHfR-Af7IhLU0aKf1ptG2yAaD4apsvVdvfpwArLXETALnHFKB5iaLI5fJEIpaYhu1yNiychYB4tZwOa2D8NAuRznmTlPXquNzn7643IzlnigN4E5I535dE7GpTF1rZuS4AEHQ/w640-h428/underground-bar-grill.jpg" title="Underground Bar & Grill - photo stolen from the Trip Advisor web page" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />We decided to eat tonight at the <span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g29010-d21346458-Reviews-Underground_Bar_Grill-Adak_Island_Aleutian_Islands_Alaska.html" target="_blank">Underground Bar and Grill</a>, which
served burger baskets and pizzas; we opted for $23 cheeseburgers and bottles of
Alaska Amber, and were somewhat amused to find that rather than pretzels or
peanuts, they handed out red vine licorice. <span> </span>Apparently, the Aleuts and other locals &
natives prefer a sweet hors d’oeuvre.<span>
</span>This place is only open from 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays.<span> </span>Which is why we brought our own food for most meals on Adak.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSq-mAEsXNzPdooa7rXpOfi45ClgrUwm69tFpjz5JK_bXzNaccOb-5OnD8KuER0qJjynDq4wgd6kjgrS3bIEWl0Av7fzMxOOs3FgHex7O1PzABsuzSBkFK0RCe-UgSZEEQmjLMrxTZh0JXlB3M_tyK8eDQPa_HmJ4vbNKCmsglaQhu56T8khMSi6o-UQ/s4662/IMG_0239%20(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2809" data-original-width="4662" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSq-mAEsXNzPdooa7rXpOfi45ClgrUwm69tFpjz5JK_bXzNaccOb-5OnD8KuER0qJjynDq4wgd6kjgrS3bIEWl0Av7fzMxOOs3FgHex7O1PzABsuzSBkFK0RCe-UgSZEEQmjLMrxTZh0JXlB3M_tyK8eDQPa_HmJ4vbNKCmsglaQhu56T8khMSi6o-UQ/w640-h386/IMG_0239%20(3).JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span><br /><p></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Adak, AK, USA51.8667982 -176.638535423.556564363821153 148.2052146 80.177032036178844 -141.4822854tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-59607363267788372492022-08-24T21:03:00.000-07:002022-08-24T21:03:01.981-07:00May 19, 2022 - First Full Day on Adak<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Thorp.<span> </span>On our first full day on Adak w<span>e
made another round of yesterday’s route, checking the feeder sites in town, and
working our way north.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKt6TLExEtmyC51ohCNUm4RnKUNhJ2A04BWGOzICekfmv6gRAC7P9y8FEE9HqPxfsU2CyQd18rtIqfnx3rYlP1mH0nD0uuH2iSvre2D63NfaT3BiDsaAoU52xHxeVmfAlbsVnR6m9lCM5rZsEth0bvKJ88y5BI1w5qXyPr7TQ4A8QNhUneNz0CaiB7Q/s3244/IMG_0059%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="3244" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKt6TLExEtmyC51ohCNUm4RnKUNhJ2A04BWGOzICekfmv6gRAC7P9y8FEE9HqPxfsU2CyQd18rtIqfnx3rYlP1mH0nD0uuH2iSvre2D63NfaT3BiDsaAoU52xHxeVmfAlbsVnR6m9lCM5rZsEth0bvKJ88y5BI1w5qXyPr7TQ4A8QNhUneNz0CaiB7Q/w640-h346/IMG_0059%20(2).JPG" title="Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) - the "Cock of the North"" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>We found four
Bramblings in with the ubiquitous Lapland Longspurs and Rosy Finches at the “Seal
Street Feeder”, which is where people have put down bird seed on the driveway
of an abandoned modular home that has a Sitka Spruce tree growing in the yard.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZgOuT3NhGWgGiRWDi13FPGCSL07iFak2V-URiZgXAITUwY9HLvsml4DXqXJCsu0bBvivuqCMqUWfvM7-GjmA0DPTQIDcqDBPT8HL0-LedXt_a2zpoPcgmJ3uNcSNSTpoI2cMOHex7ysETyIRsdl-LVW3r4SEEykEqPsC9TGZRSj7juWVCwcF58UXsA/s1156/IMG_20220521_164059%20Seal%20Drive%20Feeder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZgOuT3NhGWgGiRWDi13FPGCSL07iFak2V-URiZgXAITUwY9HLvsml4DXqXJCsu0bBvivuqCMqUWfvM7-GjmA0DPTQIDcqDBPT8HL0-LedXt_a2zpoPcgmJ3uNcSNSTpoI2cMOHex7ysETyIRsdl-LVW3r4SEEykEqPsC9TGZRSj7juWVCwcF58UXsA/w640-h480/IMG_20220521_164059%20Seal%20Drive%20Feeder.jpg" title="This is a "Feeder" in Adak" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
"Sandy Bluff Feeder"is a chunk of basalt/andesite that came
off the cliff behind, and people scatter bird seed on it.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFibj_b0USLTvG20ZqeENIXFNZagTVWrvzo1QVK22lPVLH3mVq44ANsOePgeUZMCiQ6b3SVVRlaYU-ffnh31k9ALbbuKOEVv_Sww8quxXVDLRwDFjx8NRvckiV02oXLNUO6y3hlWYoYX979FDAxMr82BYK-9FqSEKyiXbxYiiL3H4rGKMcZE81goJJrQ/s6000/IMG_0074%20Sandy%20Bluff%20Feeder.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFibj_b0USLTvG20ZqeENIXFNZagTVWrvzo1QVK22lPVLH3mVq44ANsOePgeUZMCiQ6b3SVVRlaYU-ffnh31k9ALbbuKOEVv_Sww8quxXVDLRwDFjx8NRvckiV02oXLNUO6y3hlWYoYX979FDAxMr82BYK-9FqSEKyiXbxYiiL3H4rGKMcZE81goJJrQ/w640-h426/IMG_0074%20Sandy%20Bluff%20Feeder.JPG" title="The "Sandy Bluff Feeder" looks a lot like a big rock . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Note the reddish-coloured seed - this is Red Milo. Red milo is a crappy bird seed anywhere in the world. Even the rats here on Adak won't touch the stuff. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2nrRs8x8b7eILsQZnGfD77RL31VZpJkiyPEbnjsv8kyWv98MKsRlQBJypfdUX1Sni4prfl98g44bl9l5pTUgR1kfb-pw6WJ2762mnhVhf5h1KC8pb1k4BvaZ3qs_rSBzaosszufIvwPx7rQh1KWv_1OpUD_vQROCDSiFZae8ASI1d8fNUXOt77ybfQ/s842/IMG_20220521_163954%20Abandoned%20Adak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="842" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2nrRs8x8b7eILsQZnGfD77RL31VZpJkiyPEbnjsv8kyWv98MKsRlQBJypfdUX1Sni4prfl98g44bl9l5pTUgR1kfb-pw6WJ2762mnhVhf5h1KC8pb1k4BvaZ3qs_rSBzaosszufIvwPx7rQh1KWv_1OpUD_vQROCDSiFZae8ASI1d8fNUXOt77ybfQ/w640-h390/IMG_20220521_163954%20Abandoned%20Adak.jpg" title="Rows and rows of abandoned Navy housing" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Birding around the town is somewhat surreal.<span> </span>Many (most? all?) of the residences were
originally US Navy housing, and when the Navy left the island in 1997, only a
portion of the buildings were purchased (or otherwise acquired) by locals.<span> </span>The remainder of homes, duplexes, and
buildings were just abandoned, and the winds from the past 25 years have blown
many of them completely apart.<span> </span>Others
are merely vacant with the siding in various stages of disappearing.<span> </span>When the siding goes, the rest of the wall is
not far behind.<span> </span>This would be an
excellent place to film an “Apocalypse” movie.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5uvjHiqJJtr0SuOOZeNcE09TumD-lCrpOLMfAViK1yX8LyIDfZMN9JmwXY78oxlykxq8JTAmXMYtMgTYjvdkyVUm5yYKlOmZh_IC2irQQy4QNvjmyBL2QiwFJsmwcv9NWX4zFOgHOLhkneWMxta8TY56CUugVcMyyiUHM_dT5NpNA8XOdQSED3-rsw/s2549/IMG_0083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="2549" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5uvjHiqJJtr0SuOOZeNcE09TumD-lCrpOLMfAViK1yX8LyIDfZMN9JmwXY78oxlykxq8JTAmXMYtMgTYjvdkyVUm5yYKlOmZh_IC2irQQy4QNvjmyBL2QiwFJsmwcv9NWX4zFOgHOLhkneWMxta8TY56CUugVcMyyiUHM_dT5NpNA8XOdQSED3-rsw/w640-h366/IMG_0083.JPG" title="Crappy photo of a Pine Siskin." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pine Siskin!<span> </span>We
found one, then two, then four of these birds at a few feeding sites and
locations around town. <span> </span>These are common
species for us in the Pacific Northwest, but the eBird checklist demanded
descriptions of the birds as a "rare" species on Adak. <span> </span>We later learned that they commonly winter on
the island, but are usually gone by the time the birders arrive in the spring.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9UEEw1d3MJG9sRRl3gVjGJ6HNUHXS4nrG1wSmYhsUuVydQhoI-LVgf99vTQVvcR3t7zl2CbZylYt39JUQD-4xQ4CQUcmNG3ZKz8pw91MP5ecifx4i-p8g4LMykFNijuxT7xAXQsrD6XgNor8VtHbsW1FU3zS5KEJOYtST_bpKFEYehGDnA0D5ViMLZQ/s4503/IMG_0087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2942" data-original-width="4503" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9UEEw1d3MJG9sRRl3gVjGJ6HNUHXS4nrG1wSmYhsUuVydQhoI-LVgf99vTQVvcR3t7zl2CbZylYt39JUQD-4xQ4CQUcmNG3ZKz8pw91MP5ecifx4i-p8g4LMykFNijuxT7xAXQsrD6XgNor8VtHbsW1FU3zS5KEJOYtST_bpKFEYehGDnA0D5ViMLZQ/w640-h418/IMG_0087.JPG" title="Shep Thorp coming down from the heights" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shep coming
down from a vantage point in town.<span> </span>We
saw a lot of a few species of birds in town, and kept hoping that we might
discover something “new and exciting”.<span>
</span>Keeping in mind that the entire island was exotic to our senses.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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birders and hunters, the main 'visitors' to Adak are contractors cleaning up
the mess left behind by the Navy. Piles of asbestos-laden waste are overlain by
gravel. Thank Goodness the wind rarely blows on the Aleutians to get the
asbestos airborne . . . Oh, wait . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We heard the cackling of geese and looked up to see a
skein of Aleutian Cacklers flying over.<span> </span>This
species/subspecies was thought extinct until a population was found on Buldir
Island in 1962. The taxon was among the first birds listed under the Endangered
Species Act. <span> </span>Considerable effort went
into the recovery of these birds, and they were de-listed in 2001.</span></span></span>
<p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbHk0pNmC81uvEy0i9Y7bk2RPUYG_AUxCQEKD_H5Pi6I9_-3yq-aL5d7opy83xtXsIjKCs9XMdbgGH9UtLQotI-zexQPAMEdTX_hv1z6Np1E50urBQPBwumfyrLQbelmuelG3eRMqp2ZUUNqbSkTencCxVH7GD5U03r1uh5Wfou7HdRw-y_EPjPqxdw/s4915/IMG_0093.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2833" data-original-width="4915" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbHk0pNmC81uvEy0i9Y7bk2RPUYG_AUxCQEKD_H5Pi6I9_-3yq-aL5d7opy83xtXsIjKCs9XMdbgGH9UtLQotI-zexQPAMEdTX_hv1z6Np1E50urBQPBwumfyrLQbelmuelG3eRMqp2ZUUNqbSkTencCxVH7GD5U03r1uh5Wfou7HdRw-y_EPjPqxdw/w640-h368/IMG_0093.JPG" title="Aleutian Cackling Geese (Branta hutchinsii leucopareia)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aleutian
Cackling Geese flying over Adak. One of the great conservation stories of the
20th century is the restoration of the Aleutian cackling goose from no more
than a few hundred birds in 1967 to a healthy population estimated at 168,500 birds
in 2017.<span> </span>Removal of the introduced, and predatory,
Arctic Foxes from nesting islands was key to the recovery effort.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXH_e3XkRIGFKvKRQRxROx_beUpKkuN0T3fc_Y9eD8HCYISPJrO3GQtN3Y3tySR6SI_XpQFMMn2VmgBpt2ksAfNE9_3YfkgkO7IXngn5uDVDX6U9uJppmazpF1Q54ALo6_xKdeBou-EHPKVUmr3vfJ-bVQTpsgDfrh6nUHhmdxNR2t7qbuf-1Gl7cBQ/s5640/IMG_0101.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3421" data-original-width="5640" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXH_e3XkRIGFKvKRQRxROx_beUpKkuN0T3fc_Y9eD8HCYISPJrO3GQtN3Y3tySR6SI_XpQFMMn2VmgBpt2ksAfNE9_3YfkgkO7IXngn5uDVDX6U9uJppmazpF1Q54ALo6_xKdeBou-EHPKVUmr3vfJ-bVQTpsgDfrh6nUHhmdxNR2t7qbuf-1Gl7cBQ/w640-h388/IMG_0101.JPG" title="Shep's eyes are sharp, but not as sharp as the Eagle's" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span>Stopping at
the mouth of Sweeper Creek, Shep's sharp eye picked out a Thick-billed Murre in
the Cove.<span> </span>An abandoned US Navy building
near Sweeper Creek makes a good hunting perch for a Bald Eagle.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwugoTtWZxYNNPGnydsRwQQp28SHJIZPSrUjd1XMmzxUxL_nBHgUormK1jT4LyI1b7Gy80W9W038v4txvRQNLDilcLJYeXZJ7jxIyDcNzd_xeSsiX9C9On8wxdPzvXFDj5nVeUtZk8_JVjL8nmaS-T1PaHmnT7L-nSb2-JTbODC571qdkZ9nahrjS9Ew/s4282/IMG_0168%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2398" data-original-width="4282" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwugoTtWZxYNNPGnydsRwQQp28SHJIZPSrUjd1XMmzxUxL_nBHgUormK1jT4LyI1b7Gy80W9W038v4txvRQNLDilcLJYeXZJ7jxIyDcNzd_xeSsiX9C9On8wxdPzvXFDj5nVeUtZk8_JVjL8nmaS-T1PaHmnT7L-nSb2-JTbODC571qdkZ9nahrjS9Ew/w640-h358/IMG_0168%20(2).JPG" title="Most of the scaup ducks we saw on Adak were Greater Scaup; we did see one or two Lessers. These are Greaters." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span></span>We worked our way past the old high school and Naval
buildings toward the Contractors’ Marsh and Clam Lagoon, where we hoped to find
some of Adak's ‘specialty’ birds.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh9-e9YvEdvZlkuzAgvS_ozyiNV3w_2hrlXinKdF5QK_SmcIeV0tPuoISUd2db33tsEinr-GY2aJtxglQgpgocmBotdH_jfxLHCyyCgR_SffI5xPlE49xNG2K86ihfX3McZJnsXw50i73kh4NWkFP2y2cKqn-bMCbkEJXTELbrrCeGFGEa-LepLiF3tA/s4326/IMG_0159%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2545" data-original-width="4326" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh9-e9YvEdvZlkuzAgvS_ozyiNV3w_2hrlXinKdF5QK_SmcIeV0tPuoISUd2db33tsEinr-GY2aJtxglQgpgocmBotdH_jfxLHCyyCgR_SffI5xPlE49xNG2K86ihfX3McZJnsXw50i73kh4NWkFP2y2cKqn-bMCbkEJXTELbrrCeGFGEa-LepLiF3tA/w640-h376/IMG_0159%20(2).JPG" title="Rock Ptarmigan - Lagopus muta chamberlaini" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">A Female Rock Ptarmigan. These were "Life
Birds" for Shep and me yesterday, but quickly became a commonplace
sighting. Never boring, though!<span> </span>The
subspecies <i>Lagopus muta chamberlaini</i> is restricted to Adak Island.</span><span></span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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"High School Willows" which are supposed to be a birding 'hot spot', but I
presume the shrubs need to be a bit more leafed-out before they become attractive to migrating song birds. I think these are <i>Salix
barclayi.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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Lapland Longspur perched in the "high school willows". There is always something of interest though, even if the
birding is slow.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0jFAQPTDHKH0Si6dQma-9K2VHjkGnlWi05Ae443xMyviQFx9gVGoBfpkce60HVdlUEo_3xWnCiu4j5HRV8zhSg7W1SWEwZTjGCif5aC5l1-CVagyFxN5oB79eGP4pHEtEM2fzr29t5oIA0L-9p6xiQ4H-szLiWTRmUv5uvWbvkfCT_zHSZwgBefwSw/s6000/IMG_0103.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0jFAQPTDHKH0Si6dQma-9K2VHjkGnlWi05Ae443xMyviQFx9gVGoBfpkce60HVdlUEo_3xWnCiu4j5HRV8zhSg7W1SWEwZTjGCif5aC5l1-CVagyFxN5oB79eGP4pHEtEM2fzr29t5oIA0L-9p6xiQ4H-szLiWTRmUv5uvWbvkfCT_zHSZwgBefwSw/w640-h426/IMG_0103.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Purple Mountain Saxifrage (<i>Saxifraga
oppositifolia</i>) forms a tundra community with moss and a single anemone (<i>A.
narcissiflora</i>)</span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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willows here are a 'decumbent' species - <i>Salix arctica</i>, with a Dandelion
and a Buttercup (<i>Ranunculus acris</i>)</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwrHO5b6ZhlPvS8yFbwuhYjg6cHZ9LP_foyPmsjXC2K5NzeRcmd8bMavntrc0H2KZvcSQtP7BfeYpJ7wjg2HquVAxlUrF8bcbsbHqJIWtvCAW_yPvJBRHzM3oTlkzJSLidalcDcQij3nk_9TXqOQEbcDFUuJfphDqgKly25d_b-choEOk7is5sE-fI7A/s1156/IMG_20220519_123339%20Adak%20Natl%20Forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1156" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwrHO5b6ZhlPvS8yFbwuhYjg6cHZ9LP_foyPmsjXC2K5NzeRcmd8bMavntrc0H2KZvcSQtP7BfeYpJ7wjg2HquVAxlUrF8bcbsbHqJIWtvCAW_yPvJBRHzM3oTlkzJSLidalcDcQij3nk_9TXqOQEbcDFUuJfphDqgKly25d_b-choEOk7is5sE-fI7A/w640-h404/IMG_20220519_123339%20Adak%20Natl%20Forest.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We'd had reports of a White Wagtail near the Airport
Creek Beach Entrance, and heard it fly over without getting a view.<span> </span>Ah well, we should be able to get eyes on the
bird before too long.<span> </span>We stopped at the “Adak
National Forest” and Elfin Forest to see if any migrants had come in, to no
avail.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The
"Adak National Forest" is a birding hotspot. Not quite an
"official" National Forest, despite the signage.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">There's also a pet cemetery at the "Adak
National Forest". RIP, Charlie . . .<span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfKOSuAhUBdKgZLcaeNAK5fXg-gD7-R4kcBeUYXdn30Dj1M1_A3mwl2LPw_qAzHBQaE3MAjdte50zCMknqwb_y-Hc8-R0QfbJ8jBGlVJD_shdRIv2zxzTXJBEP-Y_rmYdtwE7DeQ4jNNwy5IDXNfnDaDI1bkbK30CvBOFSsQ7voruxI6SBQMiGp-P1Q/s1156/IMG_20220519_123902%20Adak%20NF%20Pet%20Cemetery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1156" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfKOSuAhUBdKgZLcaeNAK5fXg-gD7-R4kcBeUYXdn30Dj1M1_A3mwl2LPw_qAzHBQaE3MAjdte50zCMknqwb_y-Hc8-R0QfbJ8jBGlVJD_shdRIv2zxzTXJBEP-Y_rmYdtwE7DeQ4jNNwy5IDXNfnDaDI1bkbK30CvBOFSsQ7voruxI6SBQMiGp-P1Q/w640-h388/IMG_20220519_123902%20Adak%20NF%20Pet%20Cemetery.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pet cemetery at the "Adak National
Forest" seems to have even had an Orthodox burial . . .<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTq4aCbqH8RzGyACIb1Gq7AoXC5OnV-Z_maCKKdFn35e8iinTxVZ9bqSgFxYY3hDIqTT962qARmETOYVSkacpzVeNkp4T79izjB8JmRh62MRNKkmlWE1aR5jVeQBgewadDErTh645k64ylGsfhk5pk7vXkkbh4rYPw5_vYBAF-sezb4NqSBNXuQ1wbw/s867/IMG_20220519_123930%20Adak%20Pet%20Cemetery%20-%20Fritz%20Maynard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTq4aCbqH8RzGyACIb1Gq7AoXC5OnV-Z_maCKKdFn35e8iinTxVZ9bqSgFxYY3hDIqTT962qARmETOYVSkacpzVeNkp4T79izjB8JmRh62MRNKkmlWE1aR5jVeQBgewadDErTh645k64ylGsfhk5pk7vXkkbh4rYPw5_vYBAF-sezb4NqSBNXuQ1wbw/w480-h640/IMG_20220519_123930%20Adak%20Pet%20Cemetery%20-%20Fritz%20Maynard.jpg" title="Fritz was a "Pretty Good Dog"" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">The pet cemetery at the Adak Forest had a lot of burials. Fritz was A
Pretty Good Dog!</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT067zpIlBKoKvRC5xo02G3nfZIOlFcIzoIekZlwzMOIXRKBeeHK8YxRsIgFUDDEwAPod4_k49fBlUlMiG3N-X_goq99s2Sde7F1tlaNVHf_Ae4-5NxvhxOBJ88U7_Qty5gjDFIP39sDaPlXj7BAQzIV5H7r_rXVyxF71JTwnsGSV13Xe_z1DRKa6i0g/s867/IMG_20220519_130925%20Adak%20Aleutians%20Memorial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT067zpIlBKoKvRC5xo02G3nfZIOlFcIzoIekZlwzMOIXRKBeeHK8YxRsIgFUDDEwAPod4_k49fBlUlMiG3N-X_goq99s2Sde7F1tlaNVHf_Ae4-5NxvhxOBJ88U7_Qty5gjDFIP39sDaPlXj7BAQzIV5H7r_rXVyxF71JTwnsGSV13Xe_z1DRKa6i0g/w480-h640/IMG_20220519_130925%20Adak%20Aleutians%20Memorial.jpg" title="Aleutian Warriors memorial" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span>Up
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lost their lives in the WWII Aleutian campaign.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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breezes, which is counter-productive for those flights.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;">We <i>did</i> have a flight of bumble-bees at the National
Forest today, where there was a bloom of salmon berry bushes.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofG3JyA_cRiazC-cKgJ7tmCy40lAvq8mIokHE5rJDTcUVW8JyN38f8YzjZFzJdhrLk1rZqlEjQ0us3712ptgB7lfihNI50N8hoja8rKTtypx-QHQtYVeMD0HRB2mdA9KefE9EWPj8faKKQO2tyMmcWQopzs98LeAGVFPi0FQfPeH3xvWw-Odb4GRWgg/s6000/IMG_0155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofG3JyA_cRiazC-cKgJ7tmCy40lAvq8mIokHE5rJDTcUVW8JyN38f8YzjZFzJdhrLk1rZqlEjQ0us3712ptgB7lfihNI50N8hoja8rKTtypx-QHQtYVeMD0HRB2mdA9KefE9EWPj8faKKQO2tyMmcWQopzs98LeAGVFPi0FQfPeH3xvWw-Odb4GRWgg/w426-h640/IMG_0155.JPG" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Chocolate
Lillies (<i>Fritillaria camschatcensis</i>) were just beginning to bloom on Adak. </span><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We were also fortunate to spend time with another group
of birders, Conner and Matt Goff and family, who came in on our plane and were
also birding Adak. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlRXtrkv0fOs3-Ze9qOCiaMU3cW7Vtv91B9LlrQtBKhGLexkYNe8GkyrhooAC4OctNoEHtwN48d78C5T-2rMmUg2cs7g5v__LWHSd0Xrz9cD5X5fE4hoaYfTBAiI9t0edFgIwiu9Nho8gHXBq33AmoQgrNqp7w4nrqvJpTieoaKbl_NiQzLPNJvMECQ/s5769/IMG_0156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3845" data-original-width="5769" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlRXtrkv0fOs3-Ze9qOCiaMU3cW7Vtv91B9LlrQtBKhGLexkYNe8GkyrhooAC4OctNoEHtwN48d78C5T-2rMmUg2cs7g5v__LWHSd0Xrz9cD5X5fE4hoaYfTBAiI9t0edFgIwiu9Nho8gHXBq33AmoQgrNqp7w4nrqvJpTieoaKbl_NiQzLPNJvMECQ/w640-h426/IMG_0156.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We met Birder
Matt Goff coming in from searching for rarities at Clam Lagoon.<span> </span>Matt hosts a radio program at <a href="https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/author/admin/" target="_blank">Sitka Nature</a>.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNthxEVRfU-P01dJiOE3PnFSL1TyuPAtQHGc_nRn-rhU9_KvtI9aIj9FMY46rxXo5Q368Ctf8dw8dC7dSGKUX9qjrBWddGO_XT9gYxWLI-0O0l_goheeoJ-U49QrOSiczUKjqLNmM7XoI0d0gci4sDwFhMnvE91cjzIKpTTsDvMEvXFxkDioIYArcBw/s3322/IMG_0130%20(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1942" data-original-width="3322" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNthxEVRfU-P01dJiOE3PnFSL1TyuPAtQHGc_nRn-rhU9_KvtI9aIj9FMY46rxXo5Q368Ctf8dw8dC7dSGKUX9qjrBWddGO_XT9gYxWLI-0O0l_goheeoJ-U49QrOSiczUKjqLNmM7XoI0d0gci4sDwFhMnvE91cjzIKpTTsDvMEvXFxkDioIYArcBw/w640-h374/IMG_0130%20(3).JPG" title="Jaegers resting on the mud flats" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of the
Parasitic Jaegers (known in the UK & Europe as "Arctic Skua") we
saw here were dark-phase morphs like this pair at the Lagoon. <span> </span>These birds are the pirates of the tundra,
stealing food from gulls & terns, hunting small rodents and birds, and
raiding bird nests for eggs & young.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmiNq--HDgabWANCsmR4GmDnPsnx8abyrBBZWlwfY57fNobq_Kr4nUm8tFkEKr8t7fM4ODsj_Vp2-kvegUaoiS7vn6K3fnI68GgGYMrbxUqRBbMr44pYbC2Jw3fN8R8-XB-81_QpaOIbYPhO_LTcImfR05UIUPnUGTk8x4NqKkEqb_MNa_ATRK8bQAA/s6000/IMG_0135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmiNq--HDgabWANCsmR4GmDnPsnx8abyrBBZWlwfY57fNobq_Kr4nUm8tFkEKr8t7fM4ODsj_Vp2-kvegUaoiS7vn6K3fnI68GgGYMrbxUqRBbMr44pYbC2Jw3fN8R8-XB-81_QpaOIbYPhO_LTcImfR05UIUPnUGTk8x4NqKkEqb_MNa_ATRK8bQAA/w640-h426/IMG_0135.JPG" title="I never found out why this was called the "Candlestick" bridge" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span></span>The “Candlestick
Bridge” is at the mouth of Clam Lagoon. The road approaches are blocked off at
either side; good thing, as the bridge supports have pretty well rotted away .
. . To access the far side of the bridge
requires a long drive around the lagoon.<span>
</span>We saw a number of Aleutian Terns here (sorry, no photos), which were “Lifers”
for both Shep and me.</span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Walking
north along Clam Bay, we got a radio call from Sam that he’d found a Wood
Sandpiper at Constructor’s Marsh.<span> </span>We
drove back and immediately had a Common Snipe land near the car, a “Lifer” for
Shep.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We met Sam Brayshaw and Steve Noseworthy at the
Contractors' Marsh and they were of great help in relocating the Wood Sandpiper,
which was a “Life Bird” for Shep.<span> </span>We
spent an hour walking through the marsh</span></span></span>, and finally re-found the Sandpiper, which flew high but gave
distinguishing vocalizations; yet another Lifer for Shep.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvjpuQDoy792vrGWYzUGNsZWJ8O5YGegYMKhBPUYqhbMAwuJX9vw6tsbPn2hIXbhzp8fvybNJesqh2JPrtCYQz45d-z81pE8G8lqjNOF-9CPLkBWsO_Oq7wmKMdUDm1OUez0OqdaYsc-XlFVdZg2U6Q8pwh1AFAIAVUu3_tywq2C3Ip-ImrIr3_8CWg/s6000/IMG_0153.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvjpuQDoy792vrGWYzUGNsZWJ8O5YGegYMKhBPUYqhbMAwuJX9vw6tsbPn2hIXbhzp8fvybNJesqh2JPrtCYQz45d-z81pE8G8lqjNOF-9CPLkBWsO_Oq7wmKMdUDm1OUez0OqdaYsc-XlFVdZg2U6Q8pwh1AFAIAVUu3_tywq2C3Ip-ImrIr3_8CWg/w640-h426/IMG_0153.JPG" title="Sam on the far side of a patch of the "Contractors' Marsh"" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span></span>Sam
Brayshaw worked the wetlands at the Contractors' Marsh, searching for the Wood
Sandpiper and Common Snipe (different species to the North American Wilson's
Snipe). The buildings behind hime are deserted and falling apart . . .<span> </span></span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFY8ODeX4JcK_moVw9vYj81AiAfRnaiv37BWxSYbs-FIW0KNY4zbeWABELxP0pbzEU2TZJ8J7YqXPP0iNgNzZvwVJ-Fvi9jPGJh094J68ztrs1Wt1SAqdtiZby8NJKZgPpNrTmuxNFAbs9AoqRaMxnXzHRVKTUEzoIn1xEcm5qNUSo-huC0VDURMVgQ/s6000/IMG_0154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFY8ODeX4JcK_moVw9vYj81AiAfRnaiv37BWxSYbs-FIW0KNY4zbeWABELxP0pbzEU2TZJ8J7YqXPP0iNgNzZvwVJ-Fvi9jPGJh094J68ztrs1Wt1SAqdtiZby8NJKZgPpNrTmuxNFAbs9AoqRaMxnXzHRVKTUEzoIn1xEcm5qNUSo-huC0VDURMVgQ/w640-h426/IMG_0154.JPG" title="Shep was content with finding TWO "Lifers" at the marsh" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Contractors’
Marsh is an interesting wetland, which is renowned for some pretty good birds, but
also has a number of wetland plans. The Mare's
tail (<i>Hippuris vulgaris</i>) is a fairly common pan-boreal wetland plant</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbMtpwLNyHTtzMFcGnf-uiWDrh6Dc4E6bLwKATcBRgXGibp53iVkfhqEyQfw5xg9UdLVFzPFYfl-0o5KsZFtrNNi-vqYS5qWVghwcmJT7o4nPdiRWyoWi32msp4g54GcVRHwKsCG3gpIe_DptXNdJNshwbQUqC_lJuTKm8-8FeSkPxj8EvJ7YlqMUQw/s6000/IMG_0124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbMtpwLNyHTtzMFcGnf-uiWDrh6Dc4E6bLwKATcBRgXGibp53iVkfhqEyQfw5xg9UdLVFzPFYfl-0o5KsZFtrNNi-vqYS5qWVghwcmJT7o4nPdiRWyoWi32msp4g54GcVRHwKsCG3gpIe_DptXNdJNshwbQUqC_lJuTKm8-8FeSkPxj8EvJ7YlqMUQw/w426-h640/IMG_0124.JPG" title="Mare's tail (Hippuris vulgaris)" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marsh
Marigold (<i>Caltha palustris</i>) is another fairly common wetland flowering
plant</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFyTc4TnoQNpMTO6Evac8FVJOy6fKMv_oSPLLMwdTue2Zl3CTpdRpUU-gDyMW4ZphukjistTGREk8NqYZI1-wTcmi5RaGBJWG-ibrzkVeuVhRzQjKD-KUpYS_HYda4doEuRxq-XYQRJtp5gAxQWnGI-BnxSGFCBOJVFzfSWzkBsWtviGqykXE3ao9aQ/s6000/IMG_0141.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFyTc4TnoQNpMTO6Evac8FVJOy6fKMv_oSPLLMwdTue2Zl3CTpdRpUU-gDyMW4ZphukjistTGREk8NqYZI1-wTcmi5RaGBJWG-ibrzkVeuVhRzQjKD-KUpYS_HYda4doEuRxq-XYQRJtp5gAxQWnGI-BnxSGFCBOJVFzfSWzkBsWtviGqykXE3ao9aQ/w640-h426/IMG_0141.JPG" title="Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span></span>The
Red-necked Phalarope were paired up in many of the island's wetlands and puddles. This species
is polyandrous, with the more brightly-plumaged female mating with the duller
male, then leaving him to brood the eggs and rear the chicks while she goes off
to mate with another male and repeat the process.</span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizulsdKOK1CushSfWUJUHKIRAFlRU78Ff2GNUTB0-W5eoGE1rYmx2Sx97C3wHKZRf2iX7NeTIqUwm_FzwFvQX2SS4YtVTJJLixqgiavujf60V9ycs5qmsCnSywzPnxXPdi8rRQgZBhL1udTgFUJ3STiKcwZvJv0AvJQZXSYWXos7FwhU8dcRmrLY3DjQ/s3105/IMG_0142%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2125" data-original-width="3105" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizulsdKOK1CushSfWUJUHKIRAFlRU78Ff2GNUTB0-W5eoGE1rYmx2Sx97C3wHKZRf2iX7NeTIqUwm_FzwFvQX2SS4YtVTJJLixqgiavujf60V9ycs5qmsCnSywzPnxXPdi8rRQgZBhL1udTgFUJ3STiKcwZvJv0AvJQZXSYWXos7FwhU8dcRmrLY3DjQ/w640-h438/IMG_0142%20(2).JPG" title="My favorite kind of Red-necks! And, with Women's Lib Lifestyle!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">A
drake Common Teal. Our American Ornithological Society considers this a
subspecies with the Green-winged Teal, whereas the Brits and other
ornithological institutions consider it a separate species (<i>Anas crecca</i>)
to the American Green-wings (<i>A. carolinensis</i>). We never saw an American
Green-wing on Adak.</span></span></span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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drove up toward Shotgun Lake toward evening and ended our birding with a nice view of a
Short-eared Owl.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiOi2zJEHd4pA-cTJ7qbi32e-dFvRmVEYSdDVSE6iyVkTraA_XEZcrimC0OzYECm2FTXpX5hYSApfb4yOzQuK8vxfYxLUh275MMBJ482XJhj5g4Ldckp4eMJM8iu1T2mC16-TWwl_JnyFsdr15PrQaNpWRWUKqtOxmUSB195BWCSMIrYnUfolzj9xbA/s6000/IMG_0121.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiOi2zJEHd4pA-cTJ7qbi32e-dFvRmVEYSdDVSE6iyVkTraA_XEZcrimC0OzYECm2FTXpX5hYSApfb4yOzQuK8vxfYxLUh275MMBJ482XJhj5g4Ldckp4eMJM8iu1T2mC16-TWwl_JnyFsdr15PrQaNpWRWUKqtOxmUSB195BWCSMIrYnUfolzj9xbA/w640-h426/IMG_0121.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>Sam
invited us to supper at their place at 6:30, where he cooked spaghetti and
sauce, and had boxed wine.<span> </span>They had
brought in a third “bag” as luggage with food they’d purchased in
Anchorage, and had a <i>much </i>better larder than we did.<span> </span>The flight from Seattle
charged $70 for 2 bags, but flying <i>inside</i> Alaska, the airline gives you
3 bags free!<span> </span>We collapsed in bed around
11:00, even though it’s still plenty light in the sky.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRKW14JkGpG2MTE6wtrNauoIzJ9tdNCv5fo77cChJFkkmzhkECSazc83GtdWu-_rO-uu0gapxP8sTJ0hvuKUUhvGrPOo41ZZZviML9pJlV9V6q-kCMd1Sl1K4IH3R7WHNbqQ7GhuhqOOW6Vrz-KVGCVTxptFfHH-Rny87TYsZXUcxcMPFH3VIt2nKlw/s6000/IMG_0171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRKW14JkGpG2MTE6wtrNauoIzJ9tdNCv5fo77cChJFkkmzhkECSazc83GtdWu-_rO-uu0gapxP8sTJ0hvuKUUhvGrPOo41ZZZviML9pJlV9V6q-kCMd1Sl1K4IH3R7WHNbqQ7GhuhqOOW6Vrz-KVGCVTxptFfHH-Rny87TYsZXUcxcMPFH3VIt2nKlw/w640-h426/IMG_0171.JPG" title="The dot in the sky over the tundra is the Short-eared Owl" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br /><p></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Adak, AK, USA51.8667982 -176.638535423.556564363821153 148.2052146 80.177032036178844 -141.4822854tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-10970570343162641302022-08-15T13:36:00.001-07:002022-08-15T13:36:18.709-07:00May 18, 2022 - North to Alaska!<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgelIfe5QdhxunSVynPLbaQZg-4tcDI8MSvgsanhCTp1XcCN5oDWh2JnDE-66_nCeh27PLFHAD5K5BD1me8siAJIp1_KMZC0q3b6X8QciBmazZaVfat49bCa9JB0smKWVgaEOJ13UhYL68Y-ZiYA9SYFMzUUgQLbHZrgOvw2AkBPz-sn4ZOnOUbQqG0TA/s6000/IMG_0094.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgelIfe5QdhxunSVynPLbaQZg-4tcDI8MSvgsanhCTp1XcCN5oDWh2JnDE-66_nCeh27PLFHAD5K5BD1me8siAJIp1_KMZC0q3b6X8QciBmazZaVfat49bCa9JB0smKWVgaEOJ13UhYL68Y-ZiYA9SYFMzUUgQLbHZrgOvw2AkBPz-sn4ZOnOUbQqG0TA/w640-h426/IMG_0094.JPG" title="A flock of Aleutian Cackling Geese flies over some of the abandoned Navy buildings on Adak." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It took me forever to finish the ‘daily Blog posts’ from
my 2019 Year of Peregrination.<span> </span>I’m hoping
that my more recent ‘adventures’ don’t take nearly as long to write up.<span> </span>Shep Thorp and I took a birding trip to
Alaska in May of 2022 & I put some of the photos onto my FaceBook page, but
thought that they might be appropriate for this Blog.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBtrAZX3pk6fFxN7dDu3gn8nfaOy-IgcoII0KZO-VDrGScbrS1kPK2cKnVQplXmZgoGU3QxEbpd1ITq6EC1wsnFhmYc-Nbtshn9WfCdMAWfLFC5wqN9YWHHuqwMis1NAXC1CtDvxWDQ857VaAWv3s5x0RKJ-qb--qvFDaObH8ULi79_GFtGtXSc7R_Q/s867/IMG_20220520_124456%20Pink%20Flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBtrAZX3pk6fFxN7dDu3gn8nfaOy-IgcoII0KZO-VDrGScbrS1kPK2cKnVQplXmZgoGU3QxEbpd1ITq6EC1wsnFhmYc-Nbtshn9WfCdMAWfLFC5wqN9YWHHuqwMis1NAXC1CtDvxWDQ857VaAWv3s5x0RKJ-qb--qvFDaObH8ULi79_GFtGtXSc7R_Q/w480-h640/IMG_20220520_124456%20Pink%20Flower.jpg" title="The flowers on the island were just beginning to bloom, after a long winter" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This post is of our first day from Seattle, where we
caught a 6 a.m. flight to Anchorage, then transferred to the remote Island
community of Adak, about 1,190 miles southwest of Anchorage.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTrz-ZVSw_XJVr-xErYFktlHCJNffxvL49lUtQNaiFHDs0uWA--DOhAI7FV79SG79RvbUQzcYKy65lGIfuHYnBKT_7lcSTjAbcoeRwM8pknz6MtZ0R7Xbeed4d8npHFQu-v7MVBOmeV2pCh-fFzDr1Z59823Lbequ0f25TMoA5IjbuKwjrTy9rEk0eQ/s1024/Puk-Uk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTrz-ZVSw_XJVr-xErYFktlHCJNffxvL49lUtQNaiFHDs0uWA--DOhAI7FV79SG79RvbUQzcYKy65lGIfuHYnBKT_7lcSTjAbcoeRwM8pknz6MtZ0R7Xbeed4d8npHFQu-v7MVBOmeV2pCh-fFzDr1Z59823Lbequ0f25TMoA5IjbuKwjrTy9rEk0eQ/w640-h480/Puk-Uk.jpg" title="The Puk-Uk, vessel for Alaska Marine Expeditions" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Our initial intent was to have joined a vessel for a
birding tour to the island of Attu, which is another 450 miles west, and in
tomorrow's time zone.<span> </span>Shep and I had been working with guides and <a href="http://www.pukuk.com/" target="_blank">Alaska Marine Expeditions</a>, but the Pandemic put paid to the trip for the last 2 years. Finally, things came together this Spring, but this year's tour was
cancelled due to the unfortunate illness of the boat's skipper, Billy Choate.<span> </span>So, our Aleutian adventure devolved into a
week's birding at Adak, then moving to Nome for a week's birding.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNs4D8Iwy0bqjZmzYpxp4WKtgOeR4aeHSRUdCh5G3ijvSNQzaUd5Fr2gFR1R2yElS7jS6vyVfxg6ot38SEv5gazZiImPqIPTW7keP0kU79Q7EPdj5RFc1GyIT1K1ZPTLTIVVTpMCb_3NjW8QpNaC01-rjMYZgc3st4QQuN3VRsF2TJK9EMWgxfDXyhQ/s735/IMG_20220518_073249%20Plane%20Shot%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="735" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNs4D8Iwy0bqjZmzYpxp4WKtgOeR4aeHSRUdCh5G3ijvSNQzaUd5Fr2gFR1R2yElS7jS6vyVfxg6ot38SEv5gazZiImPqIPTW7keP0kU79Q7EPdj5RFc1GyIT1K1ZPTLTIVVTpMCb_3NjW8QpNaC01-rjMYZgc3st4QQuN3VRsF2TJK9EMWgxfDXyhQ/w640-h328/IMG_20220518_073249%20Plane%20Shot%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">After the
hassle of checking in and making it through TSA Insecurity, we departed Sea-Tac
at 6 a.m.<span> </span>During the flight, we broke
out of the clouds on our flight from Sea-Tac to Anchorage in the area around
Glacier National Park.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGa08-jQ7QHE4otov5pK-1_mLNnugsjQc8gYmT1AZyS4xACgFdpxj0VSKbg_C3h53YWmgCSyYmCRhT7dElpqi4_5FD3bMCZA9MHZbvsZtgWNy4QqcJbf2EKtkt4igrHVqnPzShwfPlkU7CxsYCyIZBhJTcnSfo84sxkXNpKNK1eIP0A24rVoIhK_34Ew/s1145/IMG_20220518_074019%20Plane%20shot%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1145" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGa08-jQ7QHE4otov5pK-1_mLNnugsjQc8gYmT1AZyS4xACgFdpxj0VSKbg_C3h53YWmgCSyYmCRhT7dElpqi4_5FD3bMCZA9MHZbvsZtgWNy4QqcJbf2EKtkt4igrHVqnPzShwfPlkU7CxsYCyIZBhJTcnSfo84sxkXNpKNK1eIP0A24rVoIhK_34Ew/w640-h444/IMG_20220518_074019%20Plane%20shot%202.jpg" title="The Malaspina Glacier" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Alaskan
coastline is really impressive.<span> </span>Here,
the Malaspina Glacier just looks Massive!<span>
</span>According to the National Park Service, the glacier, located primarily
within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on the coast, is the largest piedmont
glacier in North America and one of the largest outside the ice cap regions of
the world.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmHSQcFun-Va5b6gtjmr23N5-FUwsUaCrynXCwXuqTtLVXiax1Cs8tLkd_Empsnl31shYCJQof3uK6XXXN7l-2OniNB9LTP_IGdUVRu1rBXYt2hW288GJXQCOsIIgsM4CS5vdToqGBM2YhAuZNSDKseHDK6X7xjufh7T2QDxCSIT0TUptqFfj9-AIyg/s1149/IMG_20220518_075027%20Plane%20shot%205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1149" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmHSQcFun-Va5b6gtjmr23N5-FUwsUaCrynXCwXuqTtLVXiax1Cs8tLkd_Empsnl31shYCJQof3uK6XXXN7l-2OniNB9LTP_IGdUVRu1rBXYt2hW288GJXQCOsIIgsM4CS5vdToqGBM2YhAuZNSDKseHDK6X7xjufh7T2QDxCSIT0TUptqFfj9-AIyg/w640-h372/IMG_20220518_075027%20Plane%20shot%205.jpg" title="The Bering Glacier" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>A bit
further north, we passed The Bering Glacier, the largest glacier in the United
States, near Cordova, Alaska. With its associated icefield feeders it is 203 km
(126 miles) long and covers an area of more than 5,000 square kilometers (1,900
square miles).<span> </span>Since 1900, the terminus
has retreated as much as 12 km. <span> </span>The glacier
occasionally ‘surges,’ an acceleration of the flow rate of the glacier, every
20 years or so. <span> </span>During these periods the
glacier terminus advances; then the surges are generally followed by periods of
retreat.<span> </span>Despite the periodic advances,
the glacier has been shrinking overall, as are most of the glaciers along the
Alaskan coast.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwApJLrvdmey_fwkUchAB944_hArnBwHIrNVTzUu-QKmWQwJV73Xqjiq6ljSlRcoI3nS4LkKuret71T12SDJ9UgvVG_KY0yh124jkLW0RrXyPUShDjEfon-O_GH2b9cM5sBPt3d23Pr0hxekX_R25ZVzWQ_fcW6OQ9LXpfSqixFY46jTsV3UWW-SOvQQ/s1156/IMG_20220518_134721%20Plane%20shot%206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwApJLrvdmey_fwkUchAB944_hArnBwHIrNVTzUu-QKmWQwJV73Xqjiq6ljSlRcoI3nS4LkKuret71T12SDJ9UgvVG_KY0yh124jkLW0RrXyPUShDjEfon-O_GH2b9cM5sBPt3d23Pr0hxekX_R25ZVzWQ_fcW6OQ9LXpfSqixFY46jTsV3UWW-SOvQQ/w640-h480/IMG_20220518_134721%20Plane%20shot%206.jpg" title="First view of Adak Island with Mount Adagdak and Clam Lagoon" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">After a
short layover in Anchorage, we boarded a Boeing 737-800 and headed out off to
the southwest past the Alaska Peninsula and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">over the Aleutian chain</span></span></span>.<span> Above </span>is our first view of
Adak Island.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1bibVGeqX4_C1rXceyxDZLb1U_1JclXcLy16dVQNxsG_RVZYSFp-Nqg_UM-IFl5X12BgQ-GWj9_s4O1gynumod5BC_8-ZxBRXEnx-uxigt-prHySy7Npo9pTggG1oTvN93Oe-e8mfUmg69e-jFaTAwR3l0Bw8Jr3cCopPpmyi7Id2v-nMPVi5j8MgA/s1117/IMG_20220518_134739%20Plane%20shot%206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1117" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1bibVGeqX4_C1rXceyxDZLb1U_1JclXcLy16dVQNxsG_RVZYSFp-Nqg_UM-IFl5X12BgQ-GWj9_s4O1gynumod5BC_8-ZxBRXEnx-uxigt-prHySy7Npo9pTggG1oTvN93Oe-e8mfUmg69e-jFaTAwR3l0Bw8Jr3cCopPpmyi7Id2v-nMPVi5j8MgA/w640-h480/IMG_20220518_134739%20Plane%20shot%206.jpg" title="Adak Island - Clam Lagoon in front; Lake Andrew in back." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The
water bodies are Clam Lagoon in the foreground, with Andrew Lake in back.<span> </span>The lake had few birds through our visit, but
we spent a lot of time birding at the lagoon, which had numbers of shorebirds, waterfowl,
and sea otters.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNoxSGZensjKmkZ96-s9VbJs2hR0gVKxo9Jla-Dgcnl1gRfTtK7Cg60RqbPenObywEXVXWsIUrPkRNoOyq5xnUhnyV6GdbnfRvECH4uDMGBPFLwdw_sCnbTWYd44mv19gQpB9b2FTnbPAvmbB-Y9qs0w7VZFwO95q-zx0zIQ7oeAI7O1qSj1RMOxueLA/s1085/IMG_20220518_134843%20Plane%20shot%207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1085" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNoxSGZensjKmkZ96-s9VbJs2hR0gVKxo9Jla-Dgcnl1gRfTtK7Cg60RqbPenObywEXVXWsIUrPkRNoOyq5xnUhnyV6GdbnfRvECH4uDMGBPFLwdw_sCnbTWYd44mv19gQpB9b2FTnbPAvmbB-Y9qs0w7VZFwO95q-zx0zIQ7oeAI7O1qSj1RMOxueLA/w640-h422/IMG_20220518_134843%20Plane%20shot%207.jpg" title="Mount Moffett and the "Elfin Forest"" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Adak's
Mount Moffett is covered by a cloud cap. The vegetation in the foreground is
the "Elfin Forest", one of a few small groves of Sitka Spruce planted
by the US Navy years ago to boost the morale of the military personnel
stationed on the treeless island.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKW6pasJtIdqlITYesh-cR1yEon8ce7bi8uvPBuveUw-mfCPKPUS4mt6Yv--OYX4C8PGZgzv92JJCVm-y0ipDMWH77-DfsXtdBX20LpVl9Lo99a8qawy6nyZXVCA6VU6DiL5qoHt3Yre5v2qviwyxLpW6AGBrbtd3Fqd7HQWl2B9OOfVrpEWL8skyzg/s1156/IMG_20220518_140035%20Adak%20airport.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKW6pasJtIdqlITYesh-cR1yEon8ce7bi8uvPBuveUw-mfCPKPUS4mt6Yv--OYX4C8PGZgzv92JJCVm-y0ipDMWH77-DfsXtdBX20LpVl9Lo99a8qawy6nyZXVCA6VU6DiL5qoHt3Yre5v2qviwyxLpW6AGBrbtd3Fqd7HQWl2B9OOfVrpEWL8skyzg/w640-h480/IMG_20220518_140035%20Adak%20airport.jpg" title="Birthplace of the Winds!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>Welcome
to Adak - "Birthplace of the Winds"!<span>
</span>There is no longer a Naval Air Facility on the island, as the Navy
pulled out in 1997.<span> </span>The former air base
has reverted to civilian use, and hosts Alaska Airlines flights twice a week: Wednesdays
and Saturdays.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmtKWW7RD80NR8MhMlgRN2IpHbSbD53wSWnx1VzpJVnyLE8I42S8FWxQnriBjurG1P6Rg2yszT1-1RRO86LDadj-TXhL4GAe6sM_NUDCtvm05ohXiB3H_LOmC38jDWExYB9lLx_KxvegdkY89Zn8tmCIZFvaEzmbH9-GmJon-avfbWvnpcnVozOs4uw/s1149/IMG_20220519_083127%20Adak%20House%20and%20Ford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1149" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmtKWW7RD80NR8MhMlgRN2IpHbSbD53wSWnx1VzpJVnyLE8I42S8FWxQnriBjurG1P6Rg2yszT1-1RRO86LDadj-TXhL4GAe6sM_NUDCtvm05ohXiB3H_LOmC38jDWExYB9lLx_KxvegdkY89Zn8tmCIZFvaEzmbH9-GmJon-avfbWvnpcnVozOs4uw/w640-h416/IMG_20220519_083127%20Adak%20House%20and%20Ford.jpg" title="Our Home Away From Home for the week" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>This was Home-Sweet-Home for a week. We rented the duplex
apartment and the "Brown Excursion" from Scott Bullock at <a href="http://aleutianoutfitters.com/" target="_blank">Aleutian Outfitters</a>. This used to be US Navy housing. When the military pulled out in
1997, people bought (or otherwise acquired) some of the residences. Most of the
houses and other buildings, however, were just abandoned, and are blowing apart more and more every
year.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDBTEBzrZjOt5lhKkpF8ZMtaV7zfnFmkIMbdhxFNX0l9gPfkD1eqPHpkEN5UNhemyFwWFNEGAVV6hzwMZyUeQELrmR1iTQMmAR7ONGnHJz5BCzvSwOA83z_6dsPA5oLo41nDokA51yc8xe3dC3L51-LLKxBjKp3NsJN6DK0OhplLpaqwVEQZOdlvyyLw/s1155/IMG_20220518_155857%20%20Adak%20Bluff%20Feeder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1155" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDBTEBzrZjOt5lhKkpF8ZMtaV7zfnFmkIMbdhxFNX0l9gPfkD1eqPHpkEN5UNhemyFwWFNEGAVV6hzwMZyUeQELrmR1iTQMmAR7ONGnHJz5BCzvSwOA83z_6dsPA5oLo41nDokA51yc8xe3dC3L51-LLKxBjKp3NsJN6DK0OhplLpaqwVEQZOdlvyyLw/w640-h384/IMG_20220518_155857%20%20Adak%20Bluff%20Feeder.jpg" title="Birding at the Adak Bluff feeder area. Most of the buildings here are completely abandoned!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">After
settling in at the duplex, we met up with birders Sam Brayshaw and Steve
Noseworthy who we’d met at the Anchorage airport. <span> </span>They were in one of the <a href="https://www.adak-hotel.com/" target="_blank">Adak-Aleutian</a> units,
and after we all got settled in, we joined up with them & got the “10-cent
tour” of the island.<span> </span>They showed us the usual feeder
areas in town, the Sweeper Creek spots and Airport Ponds, and Contractor’s
Marsh, then we drove out to Clam Lagoon.<span>
</span>Here, we check out the "Sandy Bluff Feeder" in town, which is
where birders have scattered bird seed on a large rock to entice birds in for a
good view.<span> </span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7RoT79wqcCVRPvDuDWMpjriL4tba_cfg4o0djz31OwUruukrh8ay9Kpr55caw1a5tTOxgZj06Pfr_BoGCnJ6hrK0TuRXlk0Jtld3n2kbZZvoANka_Y67_B7ZyBZGkatr8jujZQ5pEQ0Y8MpXd-7MOlaldQiakU7CcQLHJT1agkIKnmhQS9jzw9WQCA/s1156/IMG_20220518_164056%20Adak%20Lower%20Sweeper%20Creek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="1156" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7RoT79wqcCVRPvDuDWMpjriL4tba_cfg4o0djz31OwUruukrh8ay9Kpr55caw1a5tTOxgZj06Pfr_BoGCnJ6hrK0TuRXlk0Jtld3n2kbZZvoANka_Y67_B7ZyBZGkatr8jujZQ5pEQ0Y8MpXd-7MOlaldQiakU7CcQLHJT1agkIKnmhQS9jzw9WQCA/w640-h366/IMG_20220518_164056%20Adak%20Lower%20Sweeper%20Creek.jpg" title="Birding along the dike between the channels of Sweeper Creek" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sam,
Steve, and Shep at lower Sweeper Creek, which is an inter-tidal channel with
shorebirds and waterfowl.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxum_wlc7pxmROT-NJ0MDn__E5qKXV14xQ4Kze_SGe8kXLMRfYJ865iNMDT1d4-1StHTzMXxfJ17ecoHAsuYOhqxoY2suOnVaAJWuMeca0TYTTG0UT-m1KIdAvKE4o_CYx89ar8RRgQ4v0I6k8J1lYEi9_dde5CESRiQf9hA65F-1fF2hUYPCugQ_1Q/s1156/IMG_20220519_123339%20Adak%20Natl%20Forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1156" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxum_wlc7pxmROT-NJ0MDn__E5qKXV14xQ4Kze_SGe8kXLMRfYJ865iNMDT1d4-1StHTzMXxfJ17ecoHAsuYOhqxoY2suOnVaAJWuMeca0TYTTG0UT-m1KIdAvKE4o_CYx89ar8RRgQ4v0I6k8J1lYEi9_dde5CESRiQf9hA65F-1fF2hUYPCugQ_1Q/w640-h404/IMG_20220519_123339%20Adak%20Natl%20Forest.jpg" title="The "Adak National Forest"" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">On the road toward the marsh, we spotted our “Lifer” Rock
Ptarmigan, we would see <i>many</i> of this species over the next several
days. Past the marsh we stopped to add bird seed at a feeder at the <span></span><a href="https://expressdigest.com/the-clump-of-33-trees-on-adak-island-in-alaska-that-forms-americas-smallest-national-forest/" target="_blank">Adak National Forest</a><span>. </span>These Sitka Spruce trees were planted by
the Navy in the 1940s-70s. The sign reads "You Are Now Entering - And
Leaving - the Adak National Forest."<span>
</span>The sign declaring that the clump of trees is a national forest first
appeared in the 1960s.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuK3dVl4oJ_eMiB0qtap-FcMobiCEY8CRaHIgjm9t_aXCCc_3otIp_pW1kcv2yhAOvKFdCF6033_azWNlrKDP_3DeGYP_wPmfo4kngQVuB6XUHWkURvcWUK2wL_K2GFHkDLQ76CfdDV7qJ9S3YHcmR9SKzW2LHr6KZS1jsIoa231ZWsgwa1RG6oFRSJw/s624/IMG_20220518_200819%20Adak%20Clam%20Lagoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="624" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuK3dVl4oJ_eMiB0qtap-FcMobiCEY8CRaHIgjm9t_aXCCc_3otIp_pW1kcv2yhAOvKFdCF6033_azWNlrKDP_3DeGYP_wPmfo4kngQVuB6XUHWkURvcWUK2wL_K2GFHkDLQ76CfdDV7qJ9S3YHcmR9SKzW2LHr6KZS1jsIoa231ZWsgwa1RG6oFRSJw/w640-h544/IMG_20220518_200819%20Adak%20Clam%20Lagoon.jpg" title="Scoping for birds on Adak's Clam Lagoon" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In this photo Shep, Steve and Sam
are seen scanning for birds in Clam Lagoon. You can see a number of abandoned US Navy buildings on the hill across the water.<span> </span>From the beach at Rainbow
Bridge, at the far end of the road around the lagoon, we scoped our Lifer
Arctic Loons out in Kuluk Bay.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH3qtS7fZvRQqpCweI_awDhz03H1qh-4srOTQ3okzzTcdCjbBo2ECfXwLBqPU2EJAIE4y6Rvw97PupPEcHp8FM2hS_BKWDGyGLdlirzcGqAV-UC1FPhCJvrlvlFjRzs22FNvfYcfDIlrpFClNcWFzMdF6Zqx5IlMOTCewutqHHpiZ93EnO_DKCtQQD6A/s867/IMG_20220518_200834%20Birding%20Adak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH3qtS7fZvRQqpCweI_awDhz03H1qh-4srOTQ3okzzTcdCjbBo2ECfXwLBqPU2EJAIE4y6Rvw97PupPEcHp8FM2hS_BKWDGyGLdlirzcGqAV-UC1FPhCJvrlvlFjRzs22FNvfYcfDIlrpFClNcWFzMdF6Zqx5IlMOTCewutqHHpiZ93EnO_DKCtQQD6A/w480-h640/IMG_20220518_200834%20Birding%20Adak.jpg" title="Searching for one more species!" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">All-in-all, it was a great day in a new birding location
for us!<span> </span>We saw 34 species of Aleutian birds & were rewarded with two Life
species. And, we met up with some good birding companions.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jan<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Feb<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mar<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Apr<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">May<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jun<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jul<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Aug<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.68%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sep<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.66%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Oct<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nov<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 15.4%;" width="15%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dec<br />
2019</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 9.4%;" width="9%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span>Number
of Species</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">233</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">292</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">180</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">228</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">301</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">176</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">235</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">260</span></span></span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.68%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">176</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.66%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">170</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">305</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 15.4%;" width="15%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">168</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 9.4%;" width="9%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span>Number
of Individuals</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">65,155</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">59,123</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">20,734</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">9,776</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">16,059</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">6,317</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">12,559</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">16,555</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.68%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">14,195</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.66%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">28,808</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">28,286</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 15.4%;" width="15%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">66,166</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 9.4%;" width="9%">
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of Checklists</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.02%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">140</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">87</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">83</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">108</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.82%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">91</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">61</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 6.84%;" width="6%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">67</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">92</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.68%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">45</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 7.66%;" width="7%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">59</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">121</span></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="height: 25.35pt; padding: 1.5pt; width: 15.4%;" width="15%">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">82</span></span></span></b></p>
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</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It’s taken me a while to gather
together all of the ‘statistics’ of my Year of Birding.<span> </span>That’s what happens when one obsesses over
how many miles one has walked, driven, boated or flown to see the birds, how
much one spent on the endeavour, or how many hours one has spent playing this
silly game of “Birding”.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5a2i8FAf5CsPZ_Hk_zXt4seKNRuao60ODNIJzLu9PjDO55mkpa8RtOtkk2x8BzYOtvd52Sed7qr92qxKAg34Bufkt7HFV6OksDc29EZA4OeQNyOJMM2diuqqTWlHPihcxn7Jyt2YaJDAmoyb38H9xY2huh1z_thY1dwKdYrHieGIBiVkLaplXmafkQ/s960/RGVBF%20Big%20Day%20team.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5a2i8FAf5CsPZ_Hk_zXt4seKNRuao60ODNIJzLu9PjDO55mkpa8RtOtkk2x8BzYOtvd52Sed7qr92qxKAg34Bufkt7HFV6OksDc29EZA4OeQNyOJMM2diuqqTWlHPihcxn7Jyt2YaJDAmoyb38H9xY2huh1z_thY1dwKdYrHieGIBiVkLaplXmafkQ/w640-h480/RGVBF%20Big%20Day%20team.jpg" title="Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival - Big Day Team" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">And, when one would rather be birding
than writing a Blog?</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE2C-0uHCArkI1cUbs5fBsp8SjL5j5ZZkW_ukqfDYZdr9-MkZcRUn8iVOL1AVjIGSM7YTquj_f1CVss3bG5cYr6mxS4wZvgBi1EjrLyxCIkJSdB8oLnsbQ761gzcIK7ykGeGF8SazxxyXZYKl4znDDQfNAqwCQVVj_-fSzpHhg42_4DE39m-zFkjhEg/s5184/Theler%20-%20Jon%20Laurel%20and%20John.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="5184" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE2C-0uHCArkI1cUbs5fBsp8SjL5j5ZZkW_ukqfDYZdr9-MkZcRUn8iVOL1AVjIGSM7YTquj_f1CVss3bG5cYr6mxS4wZvgBi1EjrLyxCIkJSdB8oLnsbQ761gzcIK7ykGeGF8SazxxyXZYKl4znDDQfNAqwCQVVj_-fSzpHhg42_4DE39m-zFkjhEg/w640-h360/Theler%20-%20Jon%20Laurel%20and%20John.jpg" title="Birding at the Theler Wetlands near Belfair, Wash." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I knew that, in taking on a “Big Year”,
I wasn’t about to break any records, as my resources were not sufficient
to chase every rarity across North America.<span>
</span>My goal for the year was rather more personal:<span> </span>I targeted seeing 75 new “Life Birds”, as my
“Life List” stood at only 572 species at the beginning of the year.<span> </span>If I could come in near 650 when I was done,
I’d be one happy camper.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPc9YN7_-74L8Jua6dJpW530eWDVtg-wTBtzIXnTWCBw4LF_3qxGiK8EMESYtIy_etioKaXhI87UXDlxVg84rf_2PdTqiUFYHe7aQeID3LjzUIPdWDW8g2hO5g5zogk5fBf_SpwxL4xQx23hVesCorA496ERppSDfKBFWnI7ju7sncUBFlP2llEdHCTQ/s1589/IMG_1616%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1589" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPc9YN7_-74L8Jua6dJpW530eWDVtg-wTBtzIXnTWCBw4LF_3qxGiK8EMESYtIy_etioKaXhI87UXDlxVg84rf_2PdTqiUFYHe7aQeID3LjzUIPdWDW8g2hO5g5zogk5fBf_SpwxL4xQx23hVesCorA496ERppSDfKBFWnI7ju7sncUBFlP2llEdHCTQ/w640-h386/IMG_1616%20(2).JPG" title="My last "Lifer" before this year was the Plumbeous Vireo" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As it was, I ‘birded’ every day
this year; at least I submitted one or more eBird checklists for 365 days in a
row.<span> </span>It’s not that difficult to do, the
nice folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology encourage birders to put in an
<a href="https://ebird.org/about" target="_blank">eBird checklist</a> for even a 5-minute bird watch in your yard or at a feeder or
wherever.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRpGo1X0hhMqWmlDl7Aj6ik2BxmnYoKWR7b4INZCiIL53hfcPQPM7nHXl3mqqB4VBKil-KJh81du-2sQUJxnd-YKasYsV6m05jluywcykcz8HgRiqpBMT9dSyOnwVUgYcbYbiy5kMRCdO4BxmW8M88qUdnCuurhSqmVwRvjspZyTzQTPGBwj-_qwBQ/s717/eBird%20App.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="717" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRpGo1X0hhMqWmlDl7Aj6ik2BxmnYoKWR7b4INZCiIL53hfcPQPM7nHXl3mqqB4VBKil-KJh81du-2sQUJxnd-YKasYsV6m05jluywcykcz8HgRiqpBMT9dSyOnwVUgYcbYbiy5kMRCdO4BxmW8M88qUdnCuurhSqmVwRvjspZyTzQTPGBwj-_qwBQ/w640-h444/eBird%20App.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was away from home 190 of those days,
spending ‘way too many nights in motels.<span>
</span>I’d planned on camping out a lot more than I ended up doing, but
inclement weather and <i>BUGS</i> on top of coming in after a full day’s
birding made it easy to default to just crashing at the local Motel 6.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChRnez0_gKAxt_ymzUYVOTyv_MaeNQrR660o57n7D9Knjx_bPzIWrjOSTASZ7lGgfWsRZMTtgNGnysj2iAKKBsAZMtUAWZTQH04nLuGtAJNGm2GzKRyQoceoCutZYIqxilm8XAaUKHUL2Y8UvMW8Lqcbmp9sBAvQRccp1pRmQn1bwul77dCQYFaChLA/s994/North%20Powder%20Motel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="994" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChRnez0_gKAxt_ymzUYVOTyv_MaeNQrR660o57n7D9Knjx_bPzIWrjOSTASZ7lGgfWsRZMTtgNGnysj2iAKKBsAZMtUAWZTQH04nLuGtAJNGm2GzKRyQoceoCutZYIqxilm8XAaUKHUL2Y8UvMW8Lqcbmp9sBAvQRccp1pRmQn1bwul77dCQYFaChLA/w640-h350/North%20Powder%20Motel.jpg" title="The North Powder Motel in northeast Oregon was a great little place." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Actually, I prefer to find some little
<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g51995-d7916963-Reviews-North_Powder_Motel-North_Powder_Oregon.html" target="_blank">locally-owned, clean 1940s-era roadside place</a>, rather than end up at an
overpriced chain motel.<span> </span>I usually come
in ‘way too late to want to use the pool or go to the exercise room, and for
the price, I do better finding a little local café or diner for breakfast.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbk-K6tQEKSVaKL-o8t94m-sQdbXmfJsVLR9-RaymTl2n3IXwH0xystGF1RR8o_RBEzWunX2JGsjfjZyKlnmqJdZs-QbAdZivUD8fUFEVvA2ufCB3lpbpCWm5pMvkZMg1BdvNU3XVsVDEOxSarSCy5qOcCso3p0cpwL0hiyQrX07ExralM2if-DXOrww/s1057/La%20Posada%20Hotel%20Laredo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="1057" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbk-K6tQEKSVaKL-o8t94m-sQdbXmfJsVLR9-RaymTl2n3IXwH0xystGF1RR8o_RBEzWunX2JGsjfjZyKlnmqJdZs-QbAdZivUD8fUFEVvA2ufCB3lpbpCWm5pMvkZMg1BdvNU3XVsVDEOxSarSCy5qOcCso3p0cpwL0hiyQrX07ExralM2if-DXOrww/w640-h396/La%20Posada%20Hotel%20Laredo.jpg" title="La Posada Hotel, Laredo Texas" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">I <i>did</i> end up staying at some
nice places during some of the Birding Festivals.<span> </span>I think the<span>
</span>nicest was the <a href="https://www.laposada.com/" target="_blank">La Posada</a> Hotel in Laredo, Texas for the <a href="https://laredobirdingfestival.org/" target="_blank">Birding Festival</a>
in that town.</span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLamw0n0UOayVJc8cI1FB6cANzIEOQehUwspR2M3dYjB_TEYbb6L2Mx0HE3w_PvUJBnVCMAJGsdYE2WMUVnv8cXlul9Sze1QxPnfUTtZblRxjvYIejBTOjN2TLC4M4nTytVEz4QGHIH9MowR9KwJ-o4fa0QoqSXs3W7skp6dL3kY6TykN7R5meyHYuQ/s4639/IMG_0224.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3093" data-original-width="4639" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLamw0n0UOayVJc8cI1FB6cANzIEOQehUwspR2M3dYjB_TEYbb6L2Mx0HE3w_PvUJBnVCMAJGsdYE2WMUVnv8cXlul9Sze1QxPnfUTtZblRxjvYIejBTOjN2TLC4M4nTytVEz4QGHIH9MowR9KwJ-o4fa0QoqSXs3W7skp6dL3kY6TykN7R5meyHYuQ/w640-h426/IMG_0224.JPG" title="Fish Crows checking out the Subaru" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">My “Carbon Footprint” for the year was
considerably higher than optimal.<span> </span>Cris-crossing the continent a few times resulted in putting 46,343
miles on my 2015 CrossTrek.<span> </span>Only 560 of
those miles were actually “road birding”; the other traveling was getting from
one point to another.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2XfjwyFkQQn8PRLEFNHUedBFEKfhQXzoZo0RbZuvvkaclxtnxSBUHv1AKDXPbUoNQx_5PTA5Tzyw5gKoVRqPuqHQOaRnoH5UZgp3vheX0CQgrJIFmMDrxWZYYrbjGiOjih6TF3wgObDmRDf5hnGOLNvxN7Uum7neq-59bI163nhGt4FXNH9XBGsWig/s842/IMG_20190630_123025%20Mount%20Washington%20jon%20at%20summit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="632" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2XfjwyFkQQn8PRLEFNHUedBFEKfhQXzoZo0RbZuvvkaclxtnxSBUHv1AKDXPbUoNQx_5PTA5Tzyw5gKoVRqPuqHQOaRnoH5UZgp3vheX0CQgrJIFmMDrxWZYYrbjGiOjih6TF3wgObDmRDf5hnGOLNvxN7Uum7neq-59bI163nhGt4FXNH9XBGsWig/w480-h640/IMG_20190630_123025%20Mount%20Washington%20jon%20at%20summit.jpg" title="At the summit of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I won’t even discuss how much I went
over the Budget that I’d given to Marty before I started this adventure . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPM8xy4CYgEIdglzPIjUN9fvxz_eVrsSbmqh6GPrip1MMlIhhRANxNqLHjNAAixKmiCjOs2LjvRELpsm1WADXbbauGxUcJalqFbb9cMz8KhEB3bO6AUdmjWFqN-49nPh4g6fOWHHZhh4TZbI8a-aX_zR1hYMsUtm1mSE4kOpRxvjhwgLbKuGNi2cS7w/s5184/IMG_5123.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPM8xy4CYgEIdglzPIjUN9fvxz_eVrsSbmqh6GPrip1MMlIhhRANxNqLHjNAAixKmiCjOs2LjvRELpsm1WADXbbauGxUcJalqFbb9cMz8KhEB3bO6AUdmjWFqN-49nPh4g6fOWHHZhh4TZbI8a-aX_zR1hYMsUtm1mSE4kOpRxvjhwgLbKuGNi2cS7w/w640-h426/IMG_5123.JPG" title="I drove lots of lonesome miles . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I used the airline industry four times,
putting 9,977 air miles on the Southwest and Alaska Air ‘rewards’
accounts.<span> </span>Mind you, I hate flying; there
are no more “Friendly Skies”, what with the airlines packing people in like
sardines, reducing in-flight perks, and the nightmarish farce of TSA “keeping
us safe”.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CFsjmb3w6cwN81__Sr6lcBkStgD-RzYid94uaV2b_eeN3K-iLXbTFGc7XA8rsabc2mk_NPyIMwZik0RZ6AIsiKnG0WG8AY4I_xD7iBle6QgPMap7nlG83tUBxbA3ma6Ie54tCmPzKyjKDTDpCKshfQ0HbLE01gUwhRKjdFUW3dEojWUAe9-dFd2pew/s805/IMG_20190325_091406%20Alaska%20Airlines%20Airbus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="805" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CFsjmb3w6cwN81__Sr6lcBkStgD-RzYid94uaV2b_eeN3K-iLXbTFGc7XA8rsabc2mk_NPyIMwZik0RZ6AIsiKnG0WG8AY4I_xD7iBle6QgPMap7nlG83tUBxbA3ma6Ie54tCmPzKyjKDTDpCKshfQ0HbLE01gUwhRKjdFUW3dEojWUAe9-dFd2pew/w640-h480/IMG_20190325_091406%20Alaska%20Airlines%20Airbus.jpg" title="Flying Alaska Air . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">That said, I made round-trip flights to
the Space Coast Birding Festival in Florida and to Saint Paul Island for a
WINGS tour.<span> </span>I also took one-ways to Los
Angeles to board a Princess Lines’ relocation cruise and to Texas to pick up my
daughter’s Subaru & drive it back to the Pacific Northwest - birding en
route, of course.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLt1QKZGvzDJOKyBqQjDbUzH5pl-T-oS_FCQqW673aY2zCzC1od6QTGrVBWtBq58al5Ml9TI5xWl8d11CWEYCpFJ16W_zuXpL7qBS5UhWvH1-s0e5Fr2BUNXb8S0_8Ekr_y2HncQKspa3D-S2DSp6asA1NsGYv0PuiaxReVuUoxv9-1cV2MmlNKhvXAQ/s3905/EMERALD%20PRINCESS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1855" data-original-width="3905" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLt1QKZGvzDJOKyBqQjDbUzH5pl-T-oS_FCQqW673aY2zCzC1od6QTGrVBWtBq58al5Ml9TI5xWl8d11CWEYCpFJ16W_zuXpL7qBS5UhWvH1-s0e5Fr2BUNXb8S0_8Ekr_y2HncQKspa3D-S2DSp6asA1NsGYv0PuiaxReVuUoxv9-1cV2MmlNKhvXAQ/w640-h304/EMERALD%20PRINCESS.jpg" title="Not bad for Birding from the Promenade Deck. This is the Emerald Princess." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Princess Lines Cruise from Los Angeles to
Vancouver, B.C. was the craziest “pelagic” trip I took.<span> </span>This year I was joined by Anders Price, a
birding friend from Olympia.<span> </span>No “Lifers”
for me on this voyage, but we picked up several Murphy’s Petrels, which is a
difficult species to find unless you’re far out to sea.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipTJQ2nmvEcEbTXur-HZ0rKVl5r8MIL0D9VWRf06le5Z39SMlduqLOeRjoO9vzK0aiVkcliIoyahiyoHWNNezCLYVE0nUhDHuXlyl0Ny_zpZG-WHdSsQMrzGzZ8cQQh9XIQ9AHh9oIQGrztpCFVjNSjHnzBwhVxNWMBIrz_0JBfQ9clzDhdVLCKNDjA/s754/IMG_20190327_111107%20Anders%20on%20the%20Emerald%20Princess.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="754" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipTJQ2nmvEcEbTXur-HZ0rKVl5r8MIL0D9VWRf06le5Z39SMlduqLOeRjoO9vzK0aiVkcliIoyahiyoHWNNezCLYVE0nUhDHuXlyl0Ny_zpZG-WHdSsQMrzGzZ8cQQh9XIQ9AHh9oIQGrztpCFVjNSjHnzBwhVxNWMBIrz_0JBfQ9clzDhdVLCKNDjA/w640-h464/IMG_20190327_111107%20Anders%20on%20the%20Emerald%20Princess.jpg" title="Anders Price aboard the Emerald Princess, searching for that Murphy's Petrel . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The repositioning cruises are offered
by several Pacific Coast cruise lines when they are moving their operations
from winter trips into Mexico to or from their Alaska “Inside Passage”
cruises.<span> </span>For Birders, these trips
provide a way to spend a few days further offshore than can be reached by the
“traditional” pelagic birding trips.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDuVmasFbN438qd1SpWVIJu-szmeqVqVAlB894-2WMkjG90A9lfO4YTYZb6AzkE-R4IqTx-M5if-B5R9ffHD59Cw_sMlnGOO-PfCVcnXOMiSfiTwU0I8sEduGOdqnXcQ1Jh-4iTuuGhO8ghh4-N3KyWIXZj2gPUs6izDevsbD8KvY0cQMKZGifJlD0A/s1078/IMG_4817.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1078" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDuVmasFbN438qd1SpWVIJu-szmeqVqVAlB894-2WMkjG90A9lfO4YTYZb6AzkE-R4IqTx-M5if-B5R9ffHD59Cw_sMlnGOO-PfCVcnXOMiSfiTwU0I8sEduGOdqnXcQ1Jh-4iTuuGhO8ghh4-N3KyWIXZj2gPUs6izDevsbD8KvY0cQMKZGifJlD0A/w640-h570/IMG_4817.jpeg" title="Cruise Line Birding" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The ships don’t stop along the way -
staying over or beyond the Continental Shelf, and spotting scopes work well on
the decks.<span> </span>Dorian Anderson put together
a great <a href="http://thespeckledhatchback.blogspot.com/2016/05/post-65-west-coast-cruise-ship-pelagic.html Anders - https://ebird.org/pnw/profile/NTcxNTAy/world" target="_blank">“Primer” for birding on a “Repo Cruise”</a>. <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoErLWrS2imWLElAxRt9cXMBYz4c3mbUrQPd-P8ZRM4n_QJfu5vZbNG8pwJqaEWNDKDsbXfbXNmjbugbcsz7kxdzWMYglPYA1nmg6cYnlz87GZ-qgjvnbjYZOneR8r4RZq5YUdrqxJIQjDBleK8YRDUEUY6ILW2MouVKNztFdV316icoOW94nKXZy5A/s5184/IMG_7109.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoErLWrS2imWLElAxRt9cXMBYz4c3mbUrQPd-P8ZRM4n_QJfu5vZbNG8pwJqaEWNDKDsbXfbXNmjbugbcsz7kxdzWMYglPYA1nmg6cYnlz87GZ-qgjvnbjYZOneR8r4RZq5YUdrqxJIQjDBleK8YRDUEUY6ILW2MouVKNztFdV316icoOW94nKXZy5A/w640-h426/IMG_7109.JPG" title="On a Cruise Ship, you can always go inside if the weather kicks up" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">That said, the ships also <i>do not</i>
stop or turn around so that Birders can get better views of some “Lifer”
seabird.<span> </span>Therefore, I did avail myself
of a few Pelagic trips.<span> </span>My first was a
mid-March trip with <a href="http://westportseabirds.com/">Westport Seabirds</a>, picking up views of all three north
Pacific albatrosses: Black-footed, Laysan and Short-tailed.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0y0E8FTYQdO7Ssf-JEYVtg2ya0oAFAluCfa3qKlWSCJSbfia3Q547CDIUIg7Fv6lptbcukGrnpmKmYLfAwK9aXbAKtjQNH6-h__iRI5Yc-Z51BOP0qnU4PQSIw-UK6cg_V4ZmQn3WFKZFikVgaEgyTO8rDc5I446oqQ4uxDWWxGlxKbm4-4lmX68sw/s2478/IMG_6804%20Laysan%20-%20Black-footed%20-%20Short-tailed.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1321" data-original-width="2478" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0y0E8FTYQdO7Ssf-JEYVtg2ya0oAFAluCfa3qKlWSCJSbfia3Q547CDIUIg7Fv6lptbcukGrnpmKmYLfAwK9aXbAKtjQNH6-h__iRI5Yc-Z51BOP0qnU4PQSIw-UK6cg_V4ZmQn3WFKZFikVgaEgyTO8rDc5I446oqQ4uxDWWxGlxKbm4-4lmX68sw/w640-h342/IMG_6804%20Laysan%20-%20Black-footed%20-%20Short-tailed.JPG" title="There aren't too many places that Birders can see all three North Pacific Albatrosses in one spot!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Westport trips leave port and go
pretty much straight out 30 miles to the edge of the Continental shelf, where
they put out some chum (suet and fish oil) to draw in the shearwaters, petrels
and albatrosses that can smell prey from miles downwind.<span> </span>And, they will seek out fishing boats such as
pink shrimp trawlers, etc. that attract birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRMDdFr6PuZ_gnn0XNMc553DpjsB0lH-gEG5gn1SViJjYRkiSgIwIi_tyqa0rhubHUDGaf6wYfuQZsUoeavVJtkaZSN_wsieOgE2bQ51R7EfE1AmyWdznqynrlwtwVQcwxso23sIzClk2nUR-F8-eW_NiPj5GixwVbh04hbmxmKZoRvVZ8u_MLz1h0g/s5184/IMG_6713.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRMDdFr6PuZ_gnn0XNMc553DpjsB0lH-gEG5gn1SViJjYRkiSgIwIi_tyqa0rhubHUDGaf6wYfuQZsUoeavVJtkaZSN_wsieOgE2bQ51R7EfE1AmyWdznqynrlwtwVQcwxso23sIzClk2nUR-F8-eW_NiPj5GixwVbh04hbmxmKZoRvVZ8u_MLz1h0g/w426-h640/IMG_6713.JPG" title="On a 'traditional' pelagic birding trip, you're a lot closer to the Ocean!" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I also was able to put in a day with Brian
Patteson and Kate Sutherland on their June 8th <a href="https://patteson.com/" target="_blank">Seabirding </a>pelagic trip out of
Hatteras, North Carolina.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8za9OpArhMc1zFopaAIXPx2vE0XhloREImBqeR5GeA3fnYdC7kDz-cVdxsCU_Fv5YOVsdOUdDzWewfnBbMMER1XBepWW6xYVALuOmEiIxWNaHg4-W_6H4K3uQqf-kGfKVlITKP-WnERLygMnNQUU_ogVpLXzxUR933u2Hnd-i1-sf3Md3tPL0C_Ig8g/s4657/IMG_9624%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4657" data-original-width="2952" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8za9OpArhMc1zFopaAIXPx2vE0XhloREImBqeR5GeA3fnYdC7kDz-cVdxsCU_Fv5YOVsdOUdDzWewfnBbMMER1XBepWW6xYVALuOmEiIxWNaHg4-W_6H4K3uQqf-kGfKVlITKP-WnERLygMnNQUU_ogVpLXzxUR933u2Hnd-i1-sf3Md3tPL0C_Ig8g/w406-h640/IMG_9624%20(2).JPG" title="Kate Sutherland - Spotter par excellance for Brian Patteson's Seabirding" width="406" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Brian’s operation is different than
what I am more used to out of Westport.<span>
</span>They ‘chum’ constantly, and there are no fishing trawlers to draw in
hundreds or thousands of birds.<span> </span>That
said, I picked up four “Lifers” with this really professional outfit, and
really enjoyed the trip.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTya_LWPwjb3oUZoi8GmQ16fM3P5z1Q0vrquZULtgYddlFKe7UnmnqCSUrNTTPyLQ3LtC2gNkc6KvWxzzz3SsxeJ6LKSu6eNPkcMB6rmMbSI1qhBPZXX-MhduPj5LXOy-e7uNKiqX1C785i6PBO3vxlcCU_DpjZAhxI3GArgmvTfAxQ-UXayB32X0ZQ/s1074/IMG_20190608_135502%20Hatteras%20Pelagic%20chum%20box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="1074" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTya_LWPwjb3oUZoi8GmQ16fM3P5z1Q0vrquZULtgYddlFKe7UnmnqCSUrNTTPyLQ3LtC2gNkc6KvWxzzz3SsxeJ6LKSu6eNPkcMB6rmMbSI1qhBPZXX-MhduPj5LXOy-e7uNKiqX1C785i6PBO3vxlcCU_DpjZAhxI3GArgmvTfAxQ-UXayB32X0ZQ/w640-h418/IMG_20190608_135502%20Hatteras%20Pelagic%20chum%20box.jpg" title="Constant chumming works well on this East Coast pelagic trip" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I like to try to get both a Spring and
a Fall pelagic trip on the West Coast, and tried to get an October trip with
Westport Seabirds, but by the time I got around to it their trips were full.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqR4IkHmwTvjZK5mGICUBORJMkVB9mRtaTnVJ0PyjVZID6Ft9ZTGaZ83Dl5LaAgRWzNn5FgpXZMkbUXLS06SQ4_4YXNx4dOV6bSBCPxt-_Qzp-lgdUZTboBDUSIeg1ATsSi-gqIzaU05S7xmgBlTjleU0xB7029qTswl1rBjO8kocxqTTa4Zg13w1lOw/s5184/IMG_3392.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqR4IkHmwTvjZK5mGICUBORJMkVB9mRtaTnVJ0PyjVZID6Ft9ZTGaZ83Dl5LaAgRWzNn5FgpXZMkbUXLS06SQ4_4YXNx4dOV6bSBCPxt-_Qzp-lgdUZTboBDUSIeg1ATsSi-gqIzaU05S7xmgBlTjleU0xB7029qTswl1rBjO8kocxqTTa4Zg13w1lOw/w640-h426/IMG_3392.JPG" title="It's not all seabirds on a Pelagic. Bob Archer hosted a very tired Red-breasted Nuthatch 30 miles off the Oregon Coast" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was lucky to be able to make it out
with <a href="https://www.oregonpelagictours.com/" target="_blank">Oregon Pelagic Tours</a>, which Tim Shelmerdine operates out of Newport,
Oregon.<span> </span>The distribution of birds on the
Coast differs quite a bit through the seasons, and I was able to pick up four
species that I’d missed on my trip out of Westport in March.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCyOGMlpjo1rUoSK3pX6ouBZQIc8te2KTP2ZjYJ8uv1YhmLWgbeOAvlLCS_jRz2HVYJREcRx0ZV3hLrZoQ1I5x3H59JkNm9v_tFgg0apaDkiclHh6cKMrj19j0z4DDpG7BU5xCWuQYv91Hf2p-KhUf9oUa0sln2fzQchTh39_O-23rChL5e65QxKFBQ/s1059/IMG_20191006_132412%20Chumming.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1059" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCyOGMlpjo1rUoSK3pX6ouBZQIc8te2KTP2ZjYJ8uv1YhmLWgbeOAvlLCS_jRz2HVYJREcRx0ZV3hLrZoQ1I5x3H59JkNm9v_tFgg0apaDkiclHh6cKMrj19j0z4DDpG7BU5xCWuQYv91Hf2p-KhUf9oUa0sln2fzQchTh39_O-23rChL5e65QxKFBQ/w640-h480/IMG_20191006_132412%20Chumming.jpg" title="Albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels can smell their food from miles downwind. Birders use fish oil to 'chum' them in." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Although it wasn’t a “true” pelagic
trip, in the sense of going out to the edge of the Continental Shelf or into
the Gulf Stream, I took John Drury’s boat “<a href="https://www.maineseabirdtours.com/" target="_blank">The Skua</a>” out from Vinalhaven in the
State of Maine, to “twitch” the Atlantic Puffin.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3W8Hw8ndBHphHvPA7ILjYwRpjikyfZ9G_bNxhHNGhtlzC7YrFFDN8a75ngVn-G1lFdyR9OJ6lUQCUZLfjFdzTME6f6m09EruqfkYZJPnIdF4FDHAa6XDVDcI6mjjcuf4xLUW-y8vdNktkHKN14mIpFyP0_VC413-e8c_B235t5nCQBtQQAUFuzZNuA/s1414/IMG_20190701_142238%20Skipper%20John%20Drury.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1414" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3W8Hw8ndBHphHvPA7ILjYwRpjikyfZ9G_bNxhHNGhtlzC7YrFFDN8a75ngVn-G1lFdyR9OJ6lUQCUZLfjFdzTME6f6m09EruqfkYZJPnIdF4FDHAa6XDVDcI6mjjcuf4xLUW-y8vdNktkHKN14mIpFyP0_VC413-e8c_B235t5nCQBtQQAUFuzZNuA/w640-h480/IMG_20190701_142238%20Skipper%20John%20Drury.jpg" title="John Drury, skipper of "The Skua" on Maine Sea Bird Tours" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>
</span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This trip had the added advantage of
going to the island where a lone Red-billed Tropicbird had been returning for
14 years.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiYaS7B6B-4_LhXZUlpF5wmFOOpNMcN4D50SfrSBmtSnikiWpckINP25kS5H5gMLSFXxkSrFdNPI_eTFuDeNFH8Nq1VIGK11vMNaM9QhvMWl6bZa_RUUw4XMbR6mxSRZFcmXOZLs4hiU5t1mfYkUHQXy-a3agARpJ_4vQFtFPrR2U22jNLiFDSkm2yA/s1806/IMG_0457%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1219" data-original-width="1806" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiYaS7B6B-4_LhXZUlpF5wmFOOpNMcN4D50SfrSBmtSnikiWpckINP25kS5H5gMLSFXxkSrFdNPI_eTFuDeNFH8Nq1VIGK11vMNaM9QhvMWl6bZa_RUUw4XMbR6mxSRZFcmXOZLs4hiU5t1mfYkUHQXy-a3agARpJ_4vQFtFPrR2U22jNLiFDSkm2yA/w640-h432/IMG_0457%20(2).JPG" title="The Atlantic Puffins, Fratercula arctica, at Seal Island were my 619th Life Bird" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sadly, no female ever showed
up to help this individual establish a North Atlantic population, and he was
last seen in 2021.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpL6cBV_1wKI2GG45HAMja1DAvrvCgts3ujhdElRju6XeOeTNBgU6w7fefjVdJAw9Pw5ycUP0_NrhBP_Yo5ddoN2qpTy_Khc2-35JCwhm2PEugHGuygcrtIbcgD3Jl4WTrhz0FJPEtyDGLk_HnT__QZndLFg00LotXgzl9DtqfAlXm19MknEAzPYq3qA/s1176/IMG_0520%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1176" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpL6cBV_1wKI2GG45HAMja1DAvrvCgts3ujhdElRju6XeOeTNBgU6w7fefjVdJAw9Pw5ycUP0_NrhBP_Yo5ddoN2qpTy_Khc2-35JCwhm2PEugHGuygcrtIbcgD3Jl4WTrhz0FJPEtyDGLk_HnT__QZndLFg00LotXgzl9DtqfAlXm19MknEAzPYq3qA/w640-h386/IMG_0520%20(2).JPG" title="This Red-billed Tropicbird - Phaethon aethereus - was my 620th Lifer" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Through the entire year, I really benefited from attending field trips at several of the Birding Festivals
around the country.<span> </span>Besides being able
to go birding in some of the nicest localities that I’ve ever been to, I had
the advantage of being out with expert birders, having lots of eyes and ears to
find the birds, and - what was best - learning about the natural history of the
places from friendly and knowledgeable locals.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW47gO7T0okxU1Rz1_dcq_yuMpX4dXLAS8k2ymUrRRRL6uDncftC-IFljiHphWi52W0rYIsJw2Ms6fzZcGZ51V13o5qqQBZFrvQKYxIaaOdnvZc5-l9QDQ9ybXRVB6gXAczbNfqYyQNEoeJC7t3h_nPXbfLppKpH9WjUxs7hbUpIArrNlh4bCfkAL8FQ/s5184/IMG_3739.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW47gO7T0okxU1Rz1_dcq_yuMpX4dXLAS8k2ymUrRRRL6uDncftC-IFljiHphWi52W0rYIsJw2Ms6fzZcGZ51V13o5qqQBZFrvQKYxIaaOdnvZc5-l9QDQ9ybXRVB6gXAczbNfqYyQNEoeJC7t3h_nPXbfLppKpH9WjUxs7hbUpIArrNlh4bCfkAL8FQ/w640-h426/IMG_3739.JPG" title="Gull ID Field Trip at the Space Coast Birding Festival" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">My first Festival was in January at the
Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.<span>
</span>The trip provided me with 122 species, of which 79 were new for the year
and three were “Life Birds”.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiow01z61XUuKDwHNWfD7e3i2W5Pz_Z5kmoTJdXSozFBvl4tl3EEJipdjkCxr9t1e68F9t_TZPQrF1x7w3Fy3HGOGPgD85uRLJCzcO0YMzqC5M60NDWkdlsboMhlWh2RaA3M8sq5EpcOLumlp74LP0tIXDdLPD-_rKF21LdV-ooLYIkDKpCjdFpecG8Gg/s3099/IMG_4257%20Limpkin.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2169" data-original-width="3099" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiow01z61XUuKDwHNWfD7e3i2W5Pz_Z5kmoTJdXSozFBvl4tl3EEJipdjkCxr9t1e68F9t_TZPQrF1x7w3Fy3HGOGPgD85uRLJCzcO0YMzqC5M60NDWkdlsboMhlWh2RaA3M8sq5EpcOLumlp74LP0tIXDdLPD-_rKF21LdV-ooLYIkDKpCjdFpecG8Gg/w640-h448/IMG_4257%20Limpkin.JPG" title="The Limpkin, Aramus guarauna, is common and expanding its range. It was a Life Bird for me." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sadly, this Festival suffered from the
Covid-19 Pandemic, to the point the organizers had to dissolve their 501(c)(3)
corporation and <a href="https://www.nbbd.com/fly/" target="_blank">the Festival is no longer being held</a>.<span> </span>It is unfortunate, as this was a big draw for
the local Community and businesses, and was one of the ‘gems’ of the U.S.
Birding Festivals.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrqPZn324u8X7lf8rrLENi141O1FpaLNopBhr7KUKA0Vd74tojsQr9X4XS5Rls73PgmeVxhDmaGD5m-NUNTQtiqOCWmlqlGMeRYpyKOHPbepJoKu0IoGIGbUzrL4TXhsGkwIcpPelpJJiMJ7bbccWErMbnLYIZvyplCZ7BFmj2w3xjdKrQ23QdK2BvpA/s5184/IMG_3944.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrqPZn324u8X7lf8rrLENi141O1FpaLNopBhr7KUKA0Vd74tojsQr9X4XS5Rls73PgmeVxhDmaGD5m-NUNTQtiqOCWmlqlGMeRYpyKOHPbepJoKu0IoGIGbUzrL4TXhsGkwIcpPelpJJiMJ7bbccWErMbnLYIZvyplCZ7BFmj2w3xjdKrQ23QdK2BvpA/w640-h426/IMG_3944.JPG" title="Space Coast Festival Birders" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In February, I flew down to Texas,
reclaimed my daughter’s 2000 Subaru Outback, and drove it home to the Pacific
Northwest, stopping to attend the Laredo Birding Festival.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr0cSN8zsKJzy6aEvb4BkjeRRrifBUzIj7GBGjLVgrtwKxSWZVM1u3GooTqf00bkLhUbo4ztciopsTPFZHiblBVQxCP29gNacJF8qVjpS4N0-TTEj0huotDe05uSrs8yTOTNC7weDl0PglhL6pV5HZmbk8tILpisko9XYY4ULa0H3XuAwtgqBcyY8uMA/s805/IMG_20190208_191400%20Lee%20Hoy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="805" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr0cSN8zsKJzy6aEvb4BkjeRRrifBUzIj7GBGjLVgrtwKxSWZVM1u3GooTqf00bkLhUbo4ztciopsTPFZHiblBVQxCP29gNacJF8qVjpS4N0-TTEj0huotDe05uSrs8yTOTNC7weDl0PglhL6pV5HZmbk8tILpisko9XYY4ULa0H3XuAwtgqBcyY8uMA/w640-h480/IMG_20190208_191400%20Lee%20Hoy.jpg" title="Birding Guide Lee Hoy gave a great presentation on the Birds of the Big Bend!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d have to say that this Festival had
the ‘friendliest’ welcoming feel of those I attended, the talks were great, and
the field trips were well-organized and well-led.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpWSG3f0u5ozPgGHwHJ8W7SnQPlxoBROAk31IlZ3z-aM5cHq_RiylhbgCjzuBUP3LTUg3p_CEfKu3AjyIMeyi9wtU4NgmkuDiLdM3hadTv90VrFz5KOYZahLsFSaIVrPpJoIqNWGmGMy98X8IclrDoK4JK32O3-x919eYHcc9o0Epc9YHlNvx6cqNUWw/s5184/IMG_4843.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpWSG3f0u5ozPgGHwHJ8W7SnQPlxoBROAk31IlZ3z-aM5cHq_RiylhbgCjzuBUP3LTUg3p_CEfKu3AjyIMeyi9wtU4NgmkuDiLdM3hadTv90VrFz5KOYZahLsFSaIVrPpJoIqNWGmGMy98X8IclrDoK4JK32O3-x919eYHcc9o0Epc9YHlNvx6cqNUWw/w640-h426/IMG_4843.JPG" title="Getting the Birders on the Red-billed Pigeons at the Max Mandel Golf Course during the Laredo Birding Festival" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjomVZcHlRq6WUeblzVkWUAFVRIJ3pDBzWiHIHufGvR47mRhnrLKbGwxEujSSLwEP6uxUlUOQ9rhliUlxSOcae4gcW442fp6mWUIBeCfu_nEm0Tjo3pk1YTuFM3GBz9qGiNTUTRdbvrjb7K2yJ6F5nqiOx6jJKov_XZvqCCGRtmnZsUqQi7b2Ln1g0g/s1891/IMG_4988%20Altamira%20Oriole.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1207" data-original-width="1891" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjomVZcHlRq6WUeblzVkWUAFVRIJ3pDBzWiHIHufGvR47mRhnrLKbGwxEujSSLwEP6uxUlUOQ9rhliUlxSOcae4gcW442fp6mWUIBeCfu_nEm0Tjo3pk1YTuFM3GBz9qGiNTUTRdbvrjb7K2yJ6F5nqiOx6jJKov_XZvqCCGRtmnZsUqQi7b2Ln1g0g/w640-h408/IMG_4988%20Altamira%20Oriole.JPG" title="The Altamira Oriole, Icterus gularis, is a South Texas specialty" width="640" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Here, I ended up seeing 144 total
species of birds, of which 59 were new for the year, and eight were Lifers,
bringing my total number of new Life Species to 8 for the year: 67 to go!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1HE1Tbm9aOeISItgpFAlItrf7LtyejNrH72bt6cX_iYj7fRskDUmK8Mh1Ee2rH__U3DRqQueqQS0LdbePlqtIQcbo50JbTQekLhk1BPO3HlejGo1mgza0C6arAQ5oP8XHQrZPzZwRNbktqRvHRUCr-w3g3lHSIbiQGzCqUsieKfmfyeZtwuljkx-GQ/s1117/IMG_4893%20Clay-colored%20Thrush%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1117" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1HE1Tbm9aOeISItgpFAlItrf7LtyejNrH72bt6cX_iYj7fRskDUmK8Mh1Ee2rH__U3DRqQueqQS0LdbePlqtIQcbo50JbTQekLhk1BPO3HlejGo1mgza0C6arAQ5oP8XHQrZPzZwRNbktqRvHRUCr-w3g3lHSIbiQGzCqUsieKfmfyeZtwuljkx-GQ/w640-h364/IMG_4893%20Clay-colored%20Thrush%20(2).JPG" title="The Clay-colored Thrush, Turdus grayi, was my 10th "Lifer" for the year" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I drove back through New Mexico,
Arizona, California and Oregon, picking up another 10 Lifers.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJpcwKuyeEjDhuNNxCvDOpna0fpsqvqYLpsnOj8gBIjxvzMZXIg9-jCI5XDDrweY6Fk_59PG98uq1gELQycu1RArteLHuCTjAhyQ7l4lavxHhpLTvTGvzZDir15BCFfFr-P7qsoW7cDSn0LE6i1CxxpNYPvyibrV9NM8vBFy4PjsiXaGuysFEIfwljA/s1285/IMG_5576%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1285" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJpcwKuyeEjDhuNNxCvDOpna0fpsqvqYLpsnOj8gBIjxvzMZXIg9-jCI5XDDrweY6Fk_59PG98uq1gELQycu1RArteLHuCTjAhyQ7l4lavxHhpLTvTGvzZDir15BCFfFr-P7qsoW7cDSn0LE6i1CxxpNYPvyibrV9NM8vBFy4PjsiXaGuysFEIfwljA/w640-h392/IMG_5576%20(2).JPG" title="I picked up the Black Rosy-Finch, Leucosticte atrata, at New Mexico's Sandia Crest. My ABA Life Bird No. 585" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">These included two Rosy Finch species
at Sandia Crest in New Mexico, seven southeast Arizona specialties, and the
errant Red-flanked Bluetail in Los Angeles.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcjoUnMOcDrd_OEdkIJZrGlp_-pU7wk-1GlCJbDR6DdL4fnAEeGLyk5-bYyNm7BDPZKRlDEeRw3QjIl4M_U0f7S4LjwrRteJO5qeApb-UswtZPQ1rv6Z2DoV3FtxpaMhiHYtBY5fpxi9YjviyPCS2M9G85Be-YxMV-PG4LA1kWtsyqaRyjqxBeG0Xdw/s3481/IMG_5864%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2107" data-original-width="3481" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcjoUnMOcDrd_OEdkIJZrGlp_-pU7wk-1GlCJbDR6DdL4fnAEeGLyk5-bYyNm7BDPZKRlDEeRw3QjIl4M_U0f7S4LjwrRteJO5qeApb-UswtZPQ1rv6Z2DoV3FtxpaMhiHYtBY5fpxi9YjviyPCS2M9G85Be-YxMV-PG4LA1kWtsyqaRyjqxBeG0Xdw/w640-h388/IMG_5864%20(2).JPG" title="This White-throated Thrush - Turdus assimilis - in Madera Canyon, Arizona, was Lifer No. 588" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This return trip netted me snow on the
cactus in Arizona.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFuFN1EkxEMf1bFfKPUSiCioTZjt4MMm5SfghOdiKvBI1-4_G9MU-_KaXU84LBQPBTHa6NdaqHM4Ty0b3cs1ie62Axqy-FVaY4Lz5zv3U354FKAA3ojJlCmlll9okBgtuV1EAen8bQ4yR46qCTwLTem7zQPksPWgRrTc2qdlgYbf3pdwy_L1TYmoV6w/s3328/IMG_5897%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2021" data-original-width="3328" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFuFN1EkxEMf1bFfKPUSiCioTZjt4MMm5SfghOdiKvBI1-4_G9MU-_KaXU84LBQPBTHa6NdaqHM4Ty0b3cs1ie62Axqy-FVaY4Lz5zv3U354FKAA3ojJlCmlll9okBgtuV1EAen8bQ4yR46qCTwLTem7zQPksPWgRrTc2qdlgYbf3pdwy_L1TYmoV6w/w640-h388/IMG_5897%20(2).JPG" title="This Curve-billed Thrasher, Toxostoma curvirostre, wasn't too thrilled about the snow in the desert . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This wasn’t the last snow for the
month!<span> </span>Soon after, I was stuck in
traffic as Interstate 5 closed due to snow on the Grapevine in California, and
I-5 completely shut down again from Roseburg to Portland!<span> </span>But, I found ways around the drifts.<span> </span>As Marty reminded me, I was having fun!!<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZieCBEhgPr0b7M5QNLfcp5s_0jKVQar0ZmnoWuSneB6yjcwzEVfAJRuoxD_T3vnTOLgMRke0p62LTtkzrj97ADCBgV0pH4LbJuDhy48aovnGZps8wxzeXxDcOKv55vfwCo3MpC96D1nC1VLz-EY_FWaZs26aoRtnMz1FAmZGVPMfB29Ujp-c7pmG-g/s5184/IMG_5884.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZieCBEhgPr0b7M5QNLfcp5s_0jKVQar0ZmnoWuSneB6yjcwzEVfAJRuoxD_T3vnTOLgMRke0p62LTtkzrj97ADCBgV0pH4LbJuDhy48aovnGZps8wxzeXxDcOKv55vfwCo3MpC96D1nC1VLz-EY_FWaZs26aoRtnMz1FAmZGVPMfB29Ujp-c7pmG-g/w426-h640/IMG_5884.JPG" title="Arizona's Florida Canyon trailhead - in the snow" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In April, it was time for Chickens - so
I loaded into the CrossTrek again and headed to Oklahoma for the <a href="http://lektreks.org/" target="_blank">Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival</a>.<span> </span>I really enjoyed the
people from <a href="https://www.tulsaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Tulsa Audubon</a> who put this festival together, as well as the field
trips and leaders.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASC3wPKIK_KDetCWAaEnSNf-wjLe-dSLG5MEd_CLOfC5LDtVwcMxYyc41hxo67vVcbrBQeeZyEfDXMcxWp3w484iVOGL6WAbPc2k39Zf_lmyVuTEM31jlW0IlnE-EHzJ6lsCZrvQkwF-RNNSpjZU6ZOsz8cAmx4mte-NxhJuyFLOHLBx2pSFGoOIQ3w/s1200/5cb1e4923940d.image%20Kaufman%20and%20Cox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1200" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASC3wPKIK_KDetCWAaEnSNf-wjLe-dSLG5MEd_CLOfC5LDtVwcMxYyc41hxo67vVcbrBQeeZyEfDXMcxWp3w484iVOGL6WAbPc2k39Zf_lmyVuTEM31jlW0IlnE-EHzJ6lsCZrvQkwF-RNNSpjZU6ZOsz8cAmx4mte-NxhJuyFLOHLBx2pSFGoOIQ3w/w640-h370/5cb1e4923940d.image%20Kaufman%20and%20Cox.jpg" title="Kenn Kaufman with Tulsa Audubon's Cox" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Besides seeing both species of Prairie
Chickens, I was honored to be able to go birding with one of the Icons of
American Birding: Kenn Kaufman.<span> </span>He
impressed me as being not only a great birder, but also a wonderful trip leader;
making sure that all the people on the field trip get on the ‘good’ birds, and
patiently answering questions.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG05FLW-HTWIzqhbJAQqD9nVIutduzt_-sxLmJDYpKz8fv5Ava-twQMxFPemkjFzT5mwk0Kg9T8nsDijKcvSskytodobc7BC0sEaDU7-mC3xtJbIfGjMwrcJvLOXYWWcw2FFFQ-gJ9rA0vSlkOjlOdQThkdHLEfTEq4zcDnoeYq3FU55LLy70LCNgMdw/s4351/IMG_7471%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2661" data-original-width="4351" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG05FLW-HTWIzqhbJAQqD9nVIutduzt_-sxLmJDYpKz8fv5Ava-twQMxFPemkjFzT5mwk0Kg9T8nsDijKcvSskytodobc7BC0sEaDU7-mC3xtJbIfGjMwrcJvLOXYWWcw2FFFQ-gJ9rA0vSlkOjlOdQThkdHLEfTEq4zcDnoeYq3FU55LLy70LCNgMdw/w640-h392/IMG_7471%20(2).JPG" title="Kenn Kaufman and we birders getting onto a nice sighting" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This is another festival that was
discontinued in 2021.<span> </span>The reason they
discontinued the Festival is that Lesser Prairie-Chicken numbers in that part
of northwest Oklahoma are in serious decline. All of the birds on ranches that
welcome birders are no longer present. <span> </span>The last few years of the festival had been
touch and go on whether they would have birds to show participants, and they just
had no options left.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBhgCS3kJLKqRvqZFtbP5tOA13y-BhWVKlycdBaANqRy_j4_jEKhvpDEKoJqvIjqUWBEifK-N4D4LQCUOMUplK5ZH24-mxAF-AgTQdVDxRnWie3NIDY1VNGFlr6T8NwnIHJMmAz6_uCa7ZcMNoxM4o-cL2AvngLfssA6c8JlllilWVZTjcLvHofRY6Q/s626/IMG_20190410_073009%20GPC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="626" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBhgCS3kJLKqRvqZFtbP5tOA13y-BhWVKlycdBaANqRy_j4_jEKhvpDEKoJqvIjqUWBEifK-N4D4LQCUOMUplK5ZH24-mxAF-AgTQdVDxRnWie3NIDY1VNGFlr6T8NwnIHJMmAz6_uCa7ZcMNoxM4o-cL2AvngLfssA6c8JlllilWVZTjcLvHofRY6Q/w640-h390/IMG_20190410_073009%20GPC.jpg" title="Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There’s still a <a href="https://www.kansaslektreks.org/" target="_blank">Lek Trek</a> for the
chickens, but it’s now (2022) being hosted by Audubon of Kansas.<span> </span>Many thanks to these fine advocates of the
prairie birds!<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWm3662u2H8Rfqn61SWBwR4DKSdoHXHUxWRPAkkaGxqJDTpUJUDP3hzDAR_C0jhkanbCG6vbB5FSxxVP9fMiXfJqE2zvDm6ut2s2vSrzQbr2pXl3SUt3XBh_syMIRQ1Jv0Hw29xLx4E4Thu04UviekYLWVhib87XMjJo_ipBhuKlBUSFrw7bNuKp-rQ/s834/IMG_20190413_080037%20Lesser%20Prairie%20Chicken%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="834" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWm3662u2H8Rfqn61SWBwR4DKSdoHXHUxWRPAkkaGxqJDTpUJUDP3hzDAR_C0jhkanbCG6vbB5FSxxVP9fMiXfJqE2zvDm6ut2s2vSrzQbr2pXl3SUt3XBh_syMIRQ1Jv0Hw29xLx4E4Thu04UviekYLWVhib87XMjJo_ipBhuKlBUSFrw7bNuKp-rQ/w640-h394/IMG_20190413_080037%20Lesser%20Prairie%20Chicken%20(2).jpg" title="The Star of the Festival - Lesser Prairie Chickens, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This was a ‘quick’ round-trip for me,
but I took some time to do a bit of “Cowboying” in the Oklahoma panhandle after
the Prairie Chicken Festival.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEMmbP-HyUrnh3pgfhuYkUO_Ie1N8Z4hdMmtnt9-4hE8p0cSlgHD3hwwv4HkX5FklfaZOJQ0PfVNwGw-VDiLQb2nCtrvuM72QSbOW830_ysDu3K7IV_myGngBPHsnp2x7m6MomNXSuac7WcWWJAGN0VQUiPeLQbGNjrXFiFJouSxyU9PrQhfy0Ozr1w/s1070/IMG_20190418_091933%20Loop%20on%20the%20Heel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1070" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEMmbP-HyUrnh3pgfhuYkUO_Ie1N8Z4hdMmtnt9-4hE8p0cSlgHD3hwwv4HkX5FklfaZOJQ0PfVNwGw-VDiLQb2nCtrvuM72QSbOW830_ysDu3K7IV_myGngBPHsnp2x7m6MomNXSuac7WcWWJAGN0VQUiPeLQbGNjrXFiFJouSxyU9PrQhfy0Ozr1w/w640-h416/IMG_20190418_091933%20Loop%20on%20the%20Heel.jpg" title="Life isn't just birding (shocking!). I was fortunate to assist in the corral with the branding of calves at a Ranch in Kenton, Oklahoma" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Making a side trip down to the Wichita
Mountains to ‘twitch’ the Black-capped Vireo, I then drove back through Utah to
the Pacific Northwest.<span> </span>En route, I
stopped along the San Juan river at Mexican Hat, and was greeted by a singing
Lucy’s Warbler - my 600<sup>th</sup> ABA Life Species!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijI-tKj94BGYPkpmIWZ0dupUdqFfD1wliIisqf3U9hdJSMCgD-C4oGaWrr9mVlf1GJfnqu45U5f3Nz0jmoypxZgp0i6_8lWF9TRIW0mdMMUc6oP2qj9Gb4eSaF6fe1-xKgr25eYn8Crww3H9IqH4KmdeLcq92P336tYR31zFD7uIhrPl1QOKNPbxvevg/s1263/IMG_7863%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1263" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijI-tKj94BGYPkpmIWZ0dupUdqFfD1wliIisqf3U9hdJSMCgD-C4oGaWrr9mVlf1GJfnqu45U5f3Nz0jmoypxZgp0i6_8lWF9TRIW0mdMMUc6oP2qj9Gb4eSaF6fe1-xKgr25eYn8Crww3H9IqH4KmdeLcq92P336tYR31zFD7uIhrPl1QOKNPbxvevg/w640-h400/IMG_7863%20(3).JPG" title="Lucy's Warbler - Leiothlypis luciae - was my 600th ABA Life Bird" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I had a couple of weeks ‘resting’ at
home, before setting off toward the next “Festival”.<span> </span>Shep Thorp often puts together a group
birding event at the famous Magee Marsh, either ahead or following the “<a href="https://www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/" target="_blank">Biggest Week In American Birding</a>” sponsored by Kenn Kaufman’s <a href="https://www.bsbo.org/" target="_blank">Black Swamp Bird Observatory</a>.<span> </span>Not to dismiss the BWIAB,
which is a great program, but Shep prefers the somewhat smaller crowds outside
the Festival period.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnrx3uOVdTKSBqS0BHBPRi1hkEbHQStRUpYakKx_KXZF2EKfVDJrjM_XhL687A1wJIKueVZeXT1eZe9f2lriSyb0LmnPiJ_xnpaAa6_E11TmtTYs3bU7HBHiCqeHONIcVCax26N9zo6uGJURXl2ppgDFmjm03XGvPLB8gnQYFwcAr4qQRG0nO4bJTXg/s843/IMG_20190515_172711%20-%20Pelee%20Shep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="632" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnrx3uOVdTKSBqS0BHBPRi1hkEbHQStRUpYakKx_KXZF2EKfVDJrjM_XhL687A1wJIKueVZeXT1eZe9f2lriSyb0LmnPiJ_xnpaAa6_E11TmtTYs3bU7HBHiCqeHONIcVCax26N9zo6uGJURXl2ppgDFmjm03XGvPLB8gnQYFwcAr4qQRG0nO4bJTXg/w480-h640/IMG_20190515_172711%20-%20Pelee%20Shep.jpg" title="Shep Thorp organized the trip to Magee Marsh and environs for birders fom Washington State and Pennsylvania" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Birding my way en route through the northern
tier of States, I picked up 17 species for the year, including a Lifer - the
introduced Eurasian Tree Sparrow.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuHWdIytVpsf1QUhPAsPvwxyJkn9Ab-sqIA9Sm5NX-lKHMNB33ny6ZlVCS3S6jdOdR8_eph7UrWppMajM_l6ZBF2nIxO9Vbu6Y_u-xce5NaHNOv9CY_6L3iiQ-9NbqXC1i--pRaW9odX8MtF50Rld-CQVspf3hqV-ovEOhKPTQTs9pYdRy3sHjDldPw/s1002/IMG_8508%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="1002" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuHWdIytVpsf1QUhPAsPvwxyJkn9Ab-sqIA9Sm5NX-lKHMNB33ny6ZlVCS3S6jdOdR8_eph7UrWppMajM_l6ZBF2nIxO9Vbu6Y_u-xce5NaHNOv9CY_6L3iiQ-9NbqXC1i--pRaW9odX8MtF50Rld-CQVspf3hqV-ovEOhKPTQTs9pYdRy3sHjDldPw/w640-h462/IMG_8508%20(2).JPG" title="The Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus - is an introduced species with its American population centered in the Midwest." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I met up with Shep’s crew, including 11
of us from Washington State and the other 8 from the Philadelphia area.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkvo2WbTMzwv1mctfgOY-C86vRA04zQYvKkOhxrxOLBdthUOivtJevS5bZ2P5P0en39oQVL95vmX4zov27NPey6g0cSm_3B2AgtPzoBBd8qTVsrpKJXm29-xvRk9jY61eZb6Y4m7PClG9BZL5jOBevFbyD9dPeERiPxs5lC6n4G-KNIrJ5yejs8eUYg/s708/IMG_20190517_090931%20Oak%20Openings%20area%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="708" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkvo2WbTMzwv1mctfgOY-C86vRA04zQYvKkOhxrxOLBdthUOivtJevS5bZ2P5P0en39oQVL95vmX4zov27NPey6g0cSm_3B2AgtPzoBBd8qTVsrpKJXm29-xvRk9jY61eZb6Y4m7PClG9BZL5jOBevFbyD9dPeERiPxs5lC6n4G-KNIrJ5yejs8eUYg/w640-h388/IMG_20190517_090931%20Oak%20Openings%20area%20(2).jpg" title="Birding in Ohio's Oak Openings" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This was my first time at Magee, and I
honestly was unprepared for the pageantry of it all.<span> </span>Hundreds of birders crowded the boardwalk,
with calls of “There’s a Bay-breasted Warbler!”, “I think there’s a
Philadelphia Vireo behind it”, and such ringing out all around us.<span> </span>If you abhor crowds, this is not the place to
be, but if you enjoy being with like-minded people, celebrating the birds, this
is a great venue!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhManAQAfj8ND7H7Tp_-SXJYV4CRBSzm4L26K0h9oFwfYwhqPmYzkf-rO0L-FEyBykhutRrvOrwpG2vetfQk25VprcUEJOSyjaTV1FCbmETd-TVr4GgsSNi0Jeudf_EdHSFmL0Q7Ce_n0l-pV4CfueF31Z8x5aPmOMGNXAN1NBs_TasP-5UdrPJTRzqug/s4711/IMG_8542.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4711" data-original-width="3141" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhManAQAfj8ND7H7Tp_-SXJYV4CRBSzm4L26K0h9oFwfYwhqPmYzkf-rO0L-FEyBykhutRrvOrwpG2vetfQk25VprcUEJOSyjaTV1FCbmETd-TVr4GgsSNi0Jeudf_EdHSFmL0Q7Ce_n0l-pV4CfueF31Z8x5aPmOMGNXAN1NBs_TasP-5UdrPJTRzqug/w426-h640/IMG_8542.JPG" title="The boardwalk at Ohio's Magee Marsh can be crowded during Spring Migration. With Birders. And, with Birds!" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We also made a run to the other side of
Lake Erie, to Point Pelee National Park in Ontario.<span> </span>In all, I was pretty overwhelmed, and this week I picked
up 40 species new to the year’s count, including four Lifers.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkV1J5pzIR6x7kkzNTlO8qY0LH2Bfn1b566aZ_gJohK7fv8lhOmycirQzNMhvkHykEyOCIvmRHjPYvB-M1zC_VLOCbQZXd2KbHGAprllfUVC1WKMwcY10zdTL05ztreAcHbWPZ0XrFtIvoX1Un_HjiIrhm8LEO9Kg-UI3VBHTIAUCYYbk8KxZx9jqY_Q/s3536/IMG_8529%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2178" data-original-width="3536" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkV1J5pzIR6x7kkzNTlO8qY0LH2Bfn1b566aZ_gJohK7fv8lhOmycirQzNMhvkHykEyOCIvmRHjPYvB-M1zC_VLOCbQZXd2KbHGAprllfUVC1WKMwcY10zdTL05ztreAcHbWPZ0XrFtIvoX1Un_HjiIrhm8LEO9Kg-UI3VBHTIAUCYYbk8KxZx9jqY_Q/w640-h394/IMG_8529%20(3).JPG" title="The Bay-breasted Warbler - Setophaga castanea - was my 602nd ABA Life Species" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The trip “home” took me two months, as
I drove down to visit my daughter near Houston.<span>
</span>My wife, Marty, flew out to visit as well as to present a paper at the <a href="https://www.prairiepartner.org/" target="_blank">Coastal Prairie Partnership</a>'s Prairie Restoration conference.<span> </span>Then, after a few days ‘vacationing’ in
Texas, Marty & I drove across to North Carolina to visit her sister Ellen
and help with some household chores.<span> </span>I
dropped Marty off at the Raleigh airport and continued north to Maine & Quebec,
and headed back home to Washington, finally arriving in Spokane on 14 July
& met Marty where she was working for the week.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSZ6qfWrrPodr20RAsVXECqFyzGZ5PmUL3praCWJeUVRv3bd1tbuVouXjAnxyhb5L912krhxOzwrvJFnGpdRNKkWxCqgeI3O_lGm9zbFzfLae4cJCSCmat7EiZ1w4UtF3au-zb7mjPJ8t99TfWrjVrvVZqg04wzGG5W-O-p2WjmZCRR5KuW4gj5OTTQ/s3838/IMG_9392%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="3838" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSZ6qfWrrPodr20RAsVXECqFyzGZ5PmUL3praCWJeUVRv3bd1tbuVouXjAnxyhb5L912krhxOzwrvJFnGpdRNKkWxCqgeI3O_lGm9zbFzfLae4cJCSCmat7EiZ1w4UtF3au-zb7mjPJ8t99TfWrjVrvVZqg04wzGG5W-O-p2WjmZCRR5KuW4gj5OTTQ/w640-h416/IMG_9392%20(2).JPG" title="Kayaking with Marty in the Matagorda coastal marshes" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d only been home for two weeks when I
headed out again.<span> </span>I had registered for
the <a href="https://tucsonaudubon.org/news-events/southeast-arizona-birding-festival/" target="_blank">Southeast Arizona Birding Festival</a>.<span>
</span>This five-day event advertised a number of really good field trips, led
by some excellent birders, and the trips were my reason for attending.<span> </span>Following the Festival, I put in a few more
days birding through SE Arizona, then worked my way home after three weeks on
the road, garnering 33 new species for the year’s list - and 22 of them were
Life Birds!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-8zKEY5q0v4WGOGRS8GXunDPGQrOhK0mpYmMAfyVlBh_o5PFUGHqkDx-n3LOkKVblccnDPD1ZhEoIyqPblzglvOnA0vl3gGgL3_kFQUbh1iAqrNcf9YRvqg6ZBx5bx1xFjxRJd5Kt4eLW0AhVqfk2GgH6hwXE7IhNI4DlPID1YCAlT1bxFGIidXYlQ/s1123/IMG_20190811_062210%20Montosa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1123" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-8zKEY5q0v4WGOGRS8GXunDPGQrOhK0mpYmMAfyVlBh_o5PFUGHqkDx-n3LOkKVblccnDPD1ZhEoIyqPblzglvOnA0vl3gGgL3_kFQUbh1iAqrNcf9YRvqg6ZBx5bx1xFjxRJd5Kt4eLW0AhVqfk2GgH6hwXE7IhNI4DlPID1YCAlT1bxFGIidXYlQ/w640-h480/IMG_20190811_062210%20Montosa.jpg" title="Trip Leader Gavin Bieber leading a field trip at the Southeast Arizona Birding Festival" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I took one trip with a “professional”
outfit this year.<span> </span>A September <a href="https://wingsbirds.com/tours/alaska-pribilofs-fall-1/" target="_blank">WINGS tour to Saint Paul Island</a> in Alaska’s Pribilofs - only two weeks after I got home
from Arizona.<span> </span>Although I grew up in the
Pacific Northwest, I had never traveled to Alaska, even though it’s only a
short 3-hour plane ride to Anchorage.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_nEst3OfP1ReBn4w9FWoBqBi82ekU7IF5p4hQqz5uomUiM4NS9aXhkOrODbc5dpu7C23BspiSfe5KCl_pezrRwhthsokU4o_uUWLZJlUr1dAPnGvyTESw2NXGgAYFHwqvYGgHGaCbVlpaWRJ2EnSTeGOfTLpiJYmsupp_P9ynuXm6Jbp5w9ZhhYVWQ/s1731/IMG_1217%20Raindeer%20Skull%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1731" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_nEst3OfP1ReBn4w9FWoBqBi82ekU7IF5p4hQqz5uomUiM4NS9aXhkOrODbc5dpu7C23BspiSfe5KCl_pezrRwhthsokU4o_uUWLZJlUr1dAPnGvyTESw2NXGgAYFHwqvYGgHGaCbVlpaWRJ2EnSTeGOfTLpiJYmsupp_P9ynuXm6Jbp5w9ZhhYVWQ/w640-h412/IMG_1217%20Raindeer%20Skull%20(2).jpg" title="A Break from Birding on Saint Paul Island in the Bering Sea" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d hoped to combine this trip with
their Gambell Tour, but it was full.<span> </span>As
it was, this Island in the Bering Sea was amazing.<span> </span>The WINGS trip leader was stranded on Gambell
due to weather, but arranged for the group to be accommodated by Sulli Gibson,
a tour guide for the Native Corporation’s <a href="https://stpaulislandtour.com/overview/">Saint Paul Island Tours</a>.<span> </span>We were well served by the <a href="https://www.tdxcorp.com/" target="_blank">TDX </a>folks.<span> </span>The island seemed somewhat magical, and I
fully expected to see Mammoths grazing on its tundra with Unangan hunters not
far behind.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhSNSsBBqfefrpDPfxLbK6GRkzchMORvS2xuGz2BhXp-5cdh-1QuUFod5kfz4HYWI-1lx89VLncGETWknakROz_Xb8fBR_qtak314nv4ZkmmOJCj1t5xYLNvNKDdMdPU9OIjd0g3jYZedu3dE5i8VOhJMwSHU3N4knxUMFXie0JZJaVUKns-4CVBCKA/s2411/IMG_2779%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1609" data-original-width="2411" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhSNSsBBqfefrpDPfxLbK6GRkzchMORvS2xuGz2BhXp-5cdh-1QuUFod5kfz4HYWI-1lx89VLncGETWknakROz_Xb8fBR_qtak314nv4ZkmmOJCj1t5xYLNvNKDdMdPU9OIjd0g3jYZedu3dE5i8VOhJMwSHU3N4knxUMFXie0JZJaVUKns-4CVBCKA/w640-h428/IMG_2779%20(2).JPG" title="The Red-faced Cormorant - Phalacrocorax urile - on Saint Paul was my 75th "Life Species" for the Year!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The trip to the North garnered me two
dozen new species for the year, including 8 Lifers!<span> </span>It was on this jaunt that I achieved (and
exceeded) my Year Goal of seeing 75 Life Birds, with a view of a Red-faced
Cormorant as I arrived on Saint Paul.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEOezyta-gamIKTXF2BjDdMXOEtYHwrJGdmastZadDRyc6ioQptmWy-mTuZythj4kYUm175OvJUWzh2uZACZosak6FKNlg-4hM1jfhy8yy1-tk7Ox9an_7hq1Jzjti5O-h5dtCffzcoyX7qT8bv3nCglwq3MNyZ_jc-5LebHnZN9i6kULoAtfnYwKKA/s4847/IMG_3031.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3231" data-original-width="4847" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEOezyta-gamIKTXF2BjDdMXOEtYHwrJGdmastZadDRyc6ioQptmWy-mTuZythj4kYUm175OvJUWzh2uZACZosak6FKNlg-4hM1jfhy8yy1-tk7Ox9an_7hq1Jzjti5O-h5dtCffzcoyX7qT8bv3nCglwq3MNyZ_jc-5LebHnZN9i6kULoAtfnYwKKA/w640-h426/IMG_3031.JPG" title="Tammy McQuade is incredulous at "dipping'" early on in our Search for the Jack Snipe on Saint Paul" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The last Festival I attended was the
Lower Rio Grande Birding Festival in Harlingen, Texas in November.<span> </span>After being home for nearly a month, I was on
the road again toward one of the best-organized Birding Festivals in the
country, and has some top-notch field trip leaders!<span> </span>I’d picked up seven “Lifers” during the week,
thanks in great measure to being out with some excellent trip leaders, and
having the assistance of the sharp eyes of a lot of good birders while in the
field with the group.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr3Lt1An8_-gQYecXHfMFmGrLUJXvLAy8R7EjieC5GWHbUjwYesWbm8LaEar862O1hyQdAhkiMIVPuz6hGZJcKzNqhUglQwzhaP8_1VIml0qnrRTPbySdM1LmE0pc45OpLuF0I4NS1bn_Wm6oU5OJU4npsiszeTE06FXV0D0rvgSqI3eZiYnVr3WRCw/s867/IMG_20191107_072758%20King%20Ranch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr3Lt1An8_-gQYecXHfMFmGrLUJXvLAy8R7EjieC5GWHbUjwYesWbm8LaEar862O1hyQdAhkiMIVPuz6hGZJcKzNqhUglQwzhaP8_1VIml0qnrRTPbySdM1LmE0pc45OpLuF0I4NS1bn_Wm6oU5OJU4npsiszeTE06FXV0D0rvgSqI3eZiYnVr3WRCw/w480-h640/IMG_20191107_072758%20King%20Ranch.jpg" title="Birding the famous King Ranch" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">On the drive home, I visited my
daughter in Dayton, then dropped down to Galveston, where I found a Lesser
Black-backed Gull perched on a utility pole, for my 600th Species of the year.<span> </span>Leaving Texas, I stopped at New Mexico’s
Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands, then made another pass through Southeast
Arizona, where I finally got eyes on one of my year’s “nemesis birds”, the
Rose-throated Becard.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYwCUcyixNc5W3mwol112IaDc5fzyy_BkH1fx5a8L387HQxqfu_Hym2SkdNpetUqKhGkvjN9ZHqbqEVRDopbMsLfLdHrxN64MtNu72fPjd24hk5fWRgvJ-JaCdaE2IrAS22KmOX6SRkeUFVxCLCncORvwlyPY454vvB9Otj2q0chhCKG6Q3b2wc5WJg/s982/IMG_4832%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="982" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYwCUcyixNc5W3mwol112IaDc5fzyy_BkH1fx5a8L387HQxqfu_Hym2SkdNpetUqKhGkvjN9ZHqbqEVRDopbMsLfLdHrxN64MtNu72fPjd24hk5fWRgvJ-JaCdaE2IrAS22KmOX6SRkeUFVxCLCncORvwlyPY454vvB9Otj2q0chhCKG6Q3b2wc5WJg/w640-h396/IMG_4832%20(2).JPG" title="'Way up in the foliage were the Becards!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The remainder of the drive home took me
through California to pick up a few local species, new to the year for me.<span> </span>But, returning home got me away from the
overly-imposing presence of America’s Homeland Insecurity along the southern
border.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduzussKBcYz4vyGK5gMcOZPoggzk1ZMPCHT6KOjhMJ__kkEPtmN88VtzZGtAkSWU9SDhQqNCWEKDAzchvgHnTWrvQoViNyvKc8WH4oRfot6Kvj4rZO5ToL1LYM_wT-erwkeGI4UCtCCMzY3uep2bWXP8lbjs_q6kMdevmHnyN5DkJcbulGkXPYsnRPw/s5184/IMG_4852.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduzussKBcYz4vyGK5gMcOZPoggzk1ZMPCHT6KOjhMJ__kkEPtmN88VtzZGtAkSWU9SDhQqNCWEKDAzchvgHnTWrvQoViNyvKc8WH4oRfot6Kvj4rZO5ToL1LYM_wT-erwkeGI4UCtCCMzY3uep2bWXP8lbjs_q6kMdevmHnyN5DkJcbulGkXPYsnRPw/w640-h426/IMG_4852.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d made the mistake, earlier this
Autumn, of checking the eBird Top 100 list, to see where I stood in the “North
American Rankings”.<span> </span>I wasn’t at all
attempting to keep pace with <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/profile/NTA4ODgx/US" target="_blank">the Deans</a>, <a href="https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/birders-on-big-year-quest-hit-rough-patch-in-walla-walla/article_39a373c0-5eac-11e7-b793-1b44e43a7cab.html" target="_blank">the Stolls</a>, <a href="David & Tammy https://birdcallsradio.com/bcr-161-david-tammy-mcquade-florida-birding/" target="_blank">the McQuades</a>, or <a href="Weigel https://birdingyear.com/about-this-blog/" target="_blank">John Weigel</a>
who regularly see over 700 species in a year.<span>
</span>But, I saw that I was neck-and-neck with a couple other birders for the
Number Ten spot in the ABA rankings.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypJnw51tsSJM-f6il-hK8LjPOYBa2c35RKYr6_CdG0Z1jkvEWxFLIW2EMaUoarC8zIZTgWp0YjaQRrSQWiy2y0OoKcBo3vOJHdb7r_JtjTd_axcXfjU-6yOaBP-QvKOVmYCYoyFxGK1QiuuM0ZQNscf8DMqcesQiaJkHkGO0VW0FFWBoNzdYsYfGd5A/s1920/ABA%20Top%2010%20-%2018%20Aug%202019.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypJnw51tsSJM-f6il-hK8LjPOYBa2c35RKYr6_CdG0Z1jkvEWxFLIW2EMaUoarC8zIZTgWp0YjaQRrSQWiy2y0OoKcBo3vOJHdb7r_JtjTd_axcXfjU-6yOaBP-QvKOVmYCYoyFxGK1QiuuM0ZQNscf8DMqcesQiaJkHkGO0VW0FFWBoNzdYsYfGd5A/w640-h360/ABA%20Top%2010%20-%2018%20Aug%202019.png" title="Number Eight in the ABA??!?!? Really? Wow!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">So, after returning from the Rio Grande Festival, December was spent locally, birding
from my home in Olympia, with the hope of picking up a few “year birds” to stay
in the Top 10.<span> </span>Most of these were few
and far-between, after all the hard Birding I’d done, and my reticence to
travel a whole lot more.<span> </span>I did make
successful efforts to ‘chase’ an Emperor Goose, and a Mountain Plover, and
twitched the Black Scoter that, somehow, I’d overlook through the year.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oyYOLM8bG8qHhE56m4Y0BKftPWeNP-j_BNvCwdvVqJKaHGmy4rWATaL1mkQYZK4tZzb9i4uG0ngl2NMOBieiNfAXr56VjvZO_CYO8iJjwkBYFZB99WPncB8qPqCJonErjC2SDUKQmjCU_Hr3nA3fLOqa_eh6hMLV97YUNfaF9M4DHcgS_2zf7uI0Ig/s1505/IMG_5128%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1505" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oyYOLM8bG8qHhE56m4Y0BKftPWeNP-j_BNvCwdvVqJKaHGmy4rWATaL1mkQYZK4tZzb9i4uG0ngl2NMOBieiNfAXr56VjvZO_CYO8iJjwkBYFZB99WPncB8qPqCJonErjC2SDUKQmjCU_Hr3nA3fLOqa_eh6hMLV97YUNfaF9M4DHcgS_2zf7uI0Ig/w640-h412/IMG_5128%20(2).JPG" title="Mountain Plover, Charadrius montanus, on the beach at Griffiths-Priday State Park in Washington" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9ym5jtKedwMu77okF3LLC5sZk-J1cU-4HmuDjvd6-rfSbt0FqpLQUfzWAKSovU7JL4_kXPSznrF6G5Y-uF9Bkc7c8km3lKPCpyQuOLTPmaHFaWhd8MFMUecQIIi7_EEJ9DpwEwNCxrYFc6QIPAK2r1_-mgKaJRp5SCPBH6mtpR-KvZVe95u3f3DrSg/s1002/IMG_5406%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1002" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9ym5jtKedwMu77okF3LLC5sZk-J1cU-4HmuDjvd6-rfSbt0FqpLQUfzWAKSovU7JL4_kXPSznrF6G5Y-uF9Bkc7c8km3lKPCpyQuOLTPmaHFaWhd8MFMUecQIIi7_EEJ9DpwEwNCxrYFc6QIPAK2r1_-mgKaJRp5SCPBH6mtpR-KvZVe95u3f3DrSg/w640-h434/IMG_5406%20(2).JPG" title="An immature Emperor Goose, Anser canagicus, at Dungeness Spit was a nice 'consolation' after missing seeing an adult of the species at Sauvie's Island" width="640" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Finally, in mid-December, I chased and
saw a Rustic Bunting in a southwest Washington State Park.<span> </span>This was the last bird species I saw this
year, number 610 for the year, and my 662nd ABA Area “Life Bird”!<span> <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKST5BpPcRAEfRYhEOIwcQOHKEgnh2apglFAQ8SjJZZ-RuLd98Ow8XtFvXpIEholG_Wgzty6XGj8JMbQNmMV5PSmq2TUbBVqeXHigst9PLmGx-Oy9_BNaQQeghDMO1VlIWwo5ueckjFt_aHmQZkVG0nxDC3WGLCB-9UaKl1otnDK4ULnmCsZNz501MNg/s672/IMG_5501%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="672" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKST5BpPcRAEfRYhEOIwcQOHKEgnh2apglFAQ8SjJZZ-RuLd98Ow8XtFvXpIEholG_Wgzty6XGj8JMbQNmMV5PSmq2TUbBVqeXHigst9PLmGx-Oy9_BNaQQeghDMO1VlIWwo5ueckjFt_aHmQZkVG0nxDC3WGLCB-9UaKl1otnDK4ULnmCsZNz501MNg/w640-h408/IMG_5501%20(2).JPG" title="This Rustic Bunting - Emberiza rustica - at Cape Disappointment was my last 'new' species for 2019. As well, it was my 91st "Life Bird" for the year, and my 662nd ABA Life Species." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I “dipped” on seeing a number of birds
that I should/might have done.<span> </span>Rusty Blackbird, for Goodness' Sake. Cerulean
Warbler.<span> </span>The Little Egret that I passed
within a few miles of in the State of Maine.<span>
</span>The Yellow-billed Loon that my friends found on the Olympia Christmas
Bird Count that I spent several days searching for.<span> </span>The list could go on and on . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqxLt6Bwvn8dFo89010EKCgHf59SURXAJOVhJnEt38tUTAHdbVhgVUq9LB5InG7AGk9BkzJ3i3TqcyA58B9UJu8gjamVL5h3NWyhvycxSdxmJMhjrBCHYVrHHSSOCOQqcVcECRkM_1GikQYk1Z5u26MiF-qbRjoPDPriUmh0X9C7lEcsUggIPUvKC0g/s1873/IMG_2893%20Kittiwake.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1873" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqxLt6Bwvn8dFo89010EKCgHf59SURXAJOVhJnEt38tUTAHdbVhgVUq9LB5InG7AGk9BkzJ3i3TqcyA58B9UJu8gjamVL5h3NWyhvycxSdxmJMhjrBCHYVrHHSSOCOQqcVcECRkM_1GikQYk1Z5u26MiF-qbRjoPDPriUmh0X9C7lEcsUggIPUvKC0g/w640-h390/IMG_2893%20Kittiwake.JPG" title="Red-legged Kittiwakes, Rissa brevirostris, is difficult to find outside the Bering Sea" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4uqu9rmmQxlPTdfA-XjLfgbFOvoMcbEqZmSlbPyDwEttXJTnHrZCYXA437o62eMkuuEsEioBRIIgG63lEAQZ_L3AiVVCqqkHbx8KFNiWl0rQ6gw_rJT3PmEw2C4gLqk08VobBUsCvZlc6mage1xvrXMlq2sF3gpUP33xHcq4pGOk35_TMpX8a8JPNTQ/s1854/IMG_2259%20Condor.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1854" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4uqu9rmmQxlPTdfA-XjLfgbFOvoMcbEqZmSlbPyDwEttXJTnHrZCYXA437o62eMkuuEsEioBRIIgG63lEAQZ_L3AiVVCqqkHbx8KFNiWl0rQ6gw_rJT3PmEw2C4gLqk08VobBUsCvZlc6mage1xvrXMlq2sF3gpUP33xHcq4pGOk35_TMpX8a8JPNTQ/w640-h392/IMG_2259%20Condor.JPG" title="The California Condor, Gymnogyps californianus, has made a remarkable 'comeback' from near-extinction, thanks to intensive restoration efforts." width="640" /></a></div></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d ended up with 91 Life Birds,
well-surpassing my beginning goal of 75.<span>
</span>I was really happy with that achievement.<span> </span>Mind you, if I’d set my goal at 100 Lifers,
I’d have been terribly disappointed to have fallen short.<span> </span>Age and experience have taught me to set
achievable goals!!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXTXIso_eXvn3QnwITLMcmaPjMfwIFVPdRQeRzEi4T9b8Nh7AS8Yp9pWTFTHFaFVakBrAgaYO9XVevqAjhUaG63NHQhgu3hbgowAGBopeZ0-vuek6urd5OSCBOCb_DxocAcd5KiL7LB3xVwK6F7wgEtg4XdEfza8U880IX9kNW_BSV6XAtUWJF9aJ6g/s1663/IMG_2937%20Fieldfare.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="1663" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXTXIso_eXvn3QnwITLMcmaPjMfwIFVPdRQeRzEi4T9b8Nh7AS8Yp9pWTFTHFaFVakBrAgaYO9XVevqAjhUaG63NHQhgu3hbgowAGBopeZ0-vuek6urd5OSCBOCb_DxocAcd5KiL7LB3xVwK6F7wgEtg4XdEfza8U880IX9kNW_BSV6XAtUWJF9aJ6g/w640-h430/IMG_2937%20Fieldfare.JPG" title="This wayward Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) near Salmon Arm, British Columbia was my first "Chase" and my first "Life Bird" of my Peregrination Year." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">I wound up just out of the Top 10 ABA eBirders for the year. Still, I think I did pretty darned well.<br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GD5Sz41V0O3tGWTaMIzi9CSPub-cEEdffP_Fd9pFE6f0QY3-ShcWPYBmYTJArzAqOTf7Gj5MckEymGO9E-76KUh7LeIVXXq--wwbZRrIh1XEXJaZkdr4zMUsClwTrm6usuZt0CZBg_q8f041B-Zk_kJyEq32Lf7epfK8U8dbQ1bkECg3ykzpuQDeNQ/s1920/ABA%20January%201%202020.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GD5Sz41V0O3tGWTaMIzi9CSPub-cEEdffP_Fd9pFE6f0QY3-ShcWPYBmYTJArzAqOTf7Gj5MckEymGO9E-76KUh7LeIVXXq--wwbZRrIh1XEXJaZkdr4zMUsClwTrm6usuZt0CZBg_q8f041B-Zk_kJyEq32Lf7epfK8U8dbQ1bkECg3ykzpuQDeNQ/w640-h360/ABA%20January%201%202020.png" title="The Standings as of New Year's Day, 2020" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d planned a couple trips for 2020,
just not as Gonzo as 2019, but the Pandemic put paid to that idea.<span> </span>As it was, I kind of enjoyed taking some time
off from hard-core Birding - once I got my mind readjusted.<span> </span>Thanks to all and any who spent any time at
all following me during the Peregrination year.<span>
</span>Thanks even more to those who understand just how difficult it is to
maintain a Blog whilst travelling and birding 15-18 hours a day.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsVATReRhu_eENPRVgJQDOxsKM8Gz15YNOKZBpJwysc7lLNA-xdI5pdWA-uET4DUhF6A2OU37uINa2sdGidy6Y3ig8lIbdNaMyZze-SN6YmozLwm7eYO0F64xB2JU6zXEOwQeeU8wyojcRRv7wG01gPIuD8A8AZH3Mn-V4Eqe41uTFhpifAmsCS9KSg/s979/Nisqually%20Estuary%20Boardwalk%20-%20Rain%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="979" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsVATReRhu_eENPRVgJQDOxsKM8Gz15YNOKZBpJwysc7lLNA-xdI5pdWA-uET4DUhF6A2OU37uINa2sdGidy6Y3ig8lIbdNaMyZze-SN6YmozLwm7eYO0F64xB2JU6zXEOwQeeU8wyojcRRv7wG01gPIuD8A8AZH3Mn-V4Eqe41uTFhpifAmsCS9KSg/w640-h422/Nisqually%20Estuary%20Boardwalk%20-%20Rain%20(2).jpg" title="Ending the 2019 Peregrination at Nisqually NWR - In the Rain" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">The best part of the year was the ability to spend hours
and days with some wonderful people!<span> </span>To
a person, the Birders I joined in the fields, deserts, beaches and tundra of
the U.S. and Canada were generous, helpful and encouraging.<span> </span>Better yet, they were Friendly!<span> </span>I appreciate all of your help, your good eyes
and ears, and your comradeship.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNTLtTRw3No_JXLL5GKRq5QXDd0I5Yu69A3rbvA34dizhGjyMspvTsB8k3Uar5G_QrbgrHogAvRK7yT5a3Obs3n4IvQRG-GwbvVXgR0z6-cmAKcLZeIAbiDuk7X_rfWGERw8xOxbsu0jFTQ5CCoWp7cKVgUE3pPHecgWI8fbyzzDtWEi3ijozXA3kL5w/s5184/Theler%20Group%20-%20Diane.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="5184" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNTLtTRw3No_JXLL5GKRq5QXDd0I5Yu69A3rbvA34dizhGjyMspvTsB8k3Uar5G_QrbgrHogAvRK7yT5a3Obs3n4IvQRG-GwbvVXgR0z6-cmAKcLZeIAbiDuk7X_rfWGERw8xOxbsu0jFTQ5CCoWp7cKVgUE3pPHecgWI8fbyzzDtWEi3ijozXA3kL5w/w640-h360/Theler%20Group%20-%20Diane.jpg" title="Supportive Birders at The Theler Wetlands" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Here's wishing you all Good Travels and Great Birding!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KwdniqUdsjto7LcRbxPxzr-YUVU6sPwtrQ-BEc_UtmluNL_WgPP5e6wHOZtI1Xt4iC7wGjgIJ5F6NMozu6GcdxHmQRqS-sfyfUO1n1MbzSRuUnloskp7H24RNGMZ4Cov6P__vEdaacDiFr6sHDu6oiiGeZwiogCmskvNotCzf3SwgcjxT52OtZ4QlA/s1628/IMG_4503%20Olympic%20Gull.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1628" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KwdniqUdsjto7LcRbxPxzr-YUVU6sPwtrQ-BEc_UtmluNL_WgPP5e6wHOZtI1Xt4iC7wGjgIJ5F6NMozu6GcdxHmQRqS-sfyfUO1n1MbzSRuUnloskp7H24RNGMZ4Cov6P__vEdaacDiFr6sHDu6oiiGeZwiogCmskvNotCzf3SwgcjxT52OtZ4QlA/w640-h436/IMG_4503%20Olympic%20Gull.JPG" title="The End of my Peregrination Year" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><p></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-27401516794854956912022-03-10T10:03:00.000-08:002022-03-10T10:03:19.398-08:00December 31, 2019 - What? It’s Over? Passing the Torch<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD_-U3e2yOPl90-QZJPeNbnj228Uwg6WeO0zYCbhAODJz5i--o7q3Mfymnps16MfvcBGWw8g1yIx6MOElY0125Ygm__n_bY_Ec0MuPQnBkxEmW8CoeSh-FJWC48NYYO4PNnSFovFj80PGOTVUnE9X5StKG4xwmW8Yc5o2-RJY1cwr9mzz3wAfljTutbQ=s612" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD_-U3e2yOPl90-QZJPeNbnj228Uwg6WeO0zYCbhAODJz5i--o7q3Mfymnps16MfvcBGWw8g1yIx6MOElY0125Ygm__n_bY_Ec0MuPQnBkxEmW8CoeSh-FJWC48NYYO4PNnSFovFj80PGOTVUnE9X5StKG4xwmW8Yc5o2-RJY1cwr9mzz3wAfljTutbQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">My “Year of Peregrination: 2019” has
come to an end.<span> </span>I’ve Birded every day
this calendar year; at least I’ve completed an eBird Checklist.<span> </span>Today is my last opportunity to pick up a
‘new’ species for the year, which is unlikely, as there’s been no local “Rare
Bird” reported recently. And, because I've long since blown past the Budget that Marty agreed to when I started this year, I'd not left the State for a month.<br /></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBrFRJaFzFxCEUCn56XmsYdeRcwgWBN3cgkreT76MSypsbbh_r0-W35hGrGKR9opIIISi2cVANDLpK26m4_2sOtsttgeBDoCMCcDLh7MC15iAHuJfK8e6xZNx-Jg4NhaHq9eZLO36BQVevjevVeDYswMjC5s_CxpX00fYbwUnV3YBWsUjnCOuQj8ouaw=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="742" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBrFRJaFzFxCEUCn56XmsYdeRcwgWBN3cgkreT76MSypsbbh_r0-W35hGrGKR9opIIISi2cVANDLpK26m4_2sOtsttgeBDoCMCcDLh7MC15iAHuJfK8e6xZNx-Jg4NhaHq9eZLO36BQVevjevVeDYswMjC5s_CxpX00fYbwUnV3YBWsUjnCOuQj8ouaw=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">That said, I drove out to the <a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/billy-frank-jr-nisqually" target="_blank">Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Natl. Wildlife Refuge</a> for the “Wednesday Walk”.<span> </span>Realizing that today is only Tuesday…<span> </span>Since tomorrow is New Year’s Day, the
volunteer leaders of the walk have moved the outing to today.</span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvq-NSE-bxYwG44kr1YpXL28mEDNXFzX7WVwbMSvazMaeZ40RAyDex-10Xz6Bb4T0eZFzrR6PyuDR0hWzlrqJIHn5T0mi9UWXKWeoP3Wuo5e4ml9XMrvYvSSUSaaNhWAYdAH2zmxIrDir1hPDjVIzmFH-wSAgTHSZnvYjGukpVElhLM7-LW9L3YtOHmA=s3954" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2163" data-original-width="3954" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvq-NSE-bxYwG44kr1YpXL28mEDNXFzX7WVwbMSvazMaeZ40RAyDex-10Xz6Bb4T0eZFzrR6PyuDR0hWzlrqJIHn5T0mi9UWXKWeoP3Wuo5e4ml9XMrvYvSSUSaaNhWAYdAH2zmxIrDir1hPDjVIzmFH-wSAgTHSZnvYjGukpVElhLM7-LW9L3YtOHmA=w640-h350" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Two dozen birders showed up, but we
could have done with a bit better weather, as we had heavy rain and strong
winds all day.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNfRQa7t75RliUvd9ck52f_lorjEGleUlrMKA6wY0chGb078NerrJ1h32wS3JugY-5fX2REbhjAEPnYKhN2fcjaErGBgu08RUaecJjoZy7-e7zXk6hy3F9gLLJtjyGZzUbb-pk322kT1Oi2_TOHT6NjYoSyJ3buisH9voRhRQhp4EHCS3G8wjm-1gmw=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="1600" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNfRQa7t75RliUvd9ck52f_lorjEGleUlrMKA6wY0chGb078NerrJ1h32wS3JugY-5fX2REbhjAEPnYKhN2fcjaErGBgu08RUaecJjoZy7-e7zXk6hy3F9gLLJtjyGZzUbb-pk322kT1Oi2_TOHT6NjYoSyJ3buisH9voRhRQhp4EHCS3G8wjm-1gmw=w640-h570" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Among the group gathered was a young
man from Georgia, who is doing a non-motorized Birding Big Year next year.<span> </span><a href="https://ebird.org/profile/MzM3Nzc3/US" target="_blank">John Patten Moss</a>, who goes by “JP”, is an
excellent birder and a really nice guy. <span> </span>He's
so dedicated that he went out on the Estuary boardwalk with Tom Bowden and I
despite heavy rains and 15-20 MPH winds!<span>
</span>We all enjoyed his company, and I was thrilled to learn that JP was
beginning is own Birding “Big Year” starting tomorrow, <a href="https://birdbanter.com/index.php/2020/10/10/the-bird-banter-podcast-77-with-john-patten-moss-additional-information/" target="_blank"><b><i>riding his Unicycle</i></b></a> from Olympia home to Georgia.</span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Here's a link to the blog for his big
year on the unicycle: <a href="https://2020thevision.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Vision</a><br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMBD3asfhZ0JdkUAErfFum7mn9DQ1WoDWckO6S8LzeTxWNgVaFOhcj0j3HFKQIiWpF2MsOnZO5B9oM2jqaF7qym6DEyFbb3Ho4ysu_CVLgOPp7fO26ISIXxgHo6fA_9-npKVN8THvc_bj9rUi-h9lHrBR6JE3-AAJA4s8VtHkAtb2wd1WlwuQIrwzJTA=s4272" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMBD3asfhZ0JdkUAErfFum7mn9DQ1WoDWckO6S8LzeTxWNgVaFOhcj0j3HFKQIiWpF2MsOnZO5B9oM2jqaF7qym6DEyFbb3Ho4ysu_CVLgOPp7fO26ISIXxgHo6fA_9-npKVN8THvc_bj9rUi-h9lHrBR6JE3-AAJA4s8VtHkAtb2wd1WlwuQIrwzJTA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">After the Refuge volunteer who organizes the walk, Phil Kelly, had introduced himself
as the "leader of this gaggle," JP seriously asked me if this was
really a gaggle? <span> </span>It turns out that there
is a group of gay and lesbian birders in Georgia that call themselves "<b><a href="https://www.gos.org/other-georgia-birding-clubs" target="_blank">The Gaggle</a></b>": <i><b>G</b>reater <b>A</b>tlanta (<b>G</b>eorgia) <b>G</b>ay & <b>Le</b>sbian
Birders</i>, a bird club for the gay community of the greater Atlanta, Georgia
area. They maintain an email group subscription serving as a common thread that
runs through the group celebrating our love of birds. <span> </span>This list primarily serves as a means of
talking about Georgia birds and birding from the particular perspective of the
GLBT birder.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz6wagq0nqDiyOPeG-rgDgyqQ0DdtNpkm18liN5BBdyTfElIoip_VSMxTPE0nITC-70MH1nLKVFSKz1j01zHsGnGLo0dtwDkGjUVJ90FY7Uxw-3wfAzhCm9s8iuUq2jbaaDrSZA3aGwBVPlzIVceJhii4ivNaksgSpn-vznSgVgk9slPzM0mLYS7Ncvg=s3832" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="3832" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz6wagq0nqDiyOPeG-rgDgyqQ0DdtNpkm18liN5BBdyTfElIoip_VSMxTPE0nITC-70MH1nLKVFSKz1j01zHsGnGLo0dtwDkGjUVJ90FY7Uxw-3wfAzhCm9s8iuUq2jbaaDrSZA3aGwBVPlzIVceJhii4ivNaksgSpn-vznSgVgk9slPzM0mLYS7Ncvg=w640-h150" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />With the rains, there was a lot of
sheet water all over the Nisqually Valley, resulting in a paucity of waterfowl
on the Refuge itself.</span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-i94HrS1oDgk93cttTRY9hx9a_N4C6IeJMZF6OA2rE68gXRpjJy4evBrwX2MljYXqkulMLLEoD3r9qNM5xa16vi_-YHnr4KJnELKUBAHqmQvYj9420znrIdDlg5RNJZiXRSrlITvTP8TbmAR1kx9IDgGEiDgAN-R-aadEtQc6f_RAdygQvN6i8s9VVw=s967" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="967" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-i94HrS1oDgk93cttTRY9hx9a_N4C6IeJMZF6OA2rE68gXRpjJy4evBrwX2MljYXqkulMLLEoD3r9qNM5xa16vi_-YHnr4KJnELKUBAHqmQvYj9420znrIdDlg5RNJZiXRSrlITvTP8TbmAR1kx9IDgGEiDgAN-R-aadEtQc6f_RAdygQvN6i8s9VVw=w640-h370" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Most of the birders peeled off early,
and only a few of us braved the estuary boardwalk.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVk61fFL55VEEh7jin91y9LmqXWwx8QbgLnarTnM4wUk3P8womHVpkgfOks4XE3A2IMYgoz1nlz2pRnklhy9qcG8x-OlCvsV7jv6c34uLVbZ9Kh5dLc5UKze3YOuo07mvuWWyAGfC3QRF2gdix8l992mgeTW3aqeyMDN4Lmkizx5D_XPQBo8bla3NBwg=s979" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="979" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVk61fFL55VEEh7jin91y9LmqXWwx8QbgLnarTnM4wUk3P8womHVpkgfOks4XE3A2IMYgoz1nlz2pRnklhy9qcG8x-OlCvsV7jv6c34uLVbZ9Kh5dLc5UKze3YOuo07mvuWWyAGfC3QRF2gdix8l992mgeTW3aqeyMDN4Lmkizx5D_XPQBo8bla3NBwg=w640-h422" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I didn’t take a lot of photos, due to the rainy weather. Then, I found that those I <i>did </i>take disappeared into the ether, when the heavy rain
completely shorted out my Canon Rebel T3!<span>
</span>And the lens, too!<span> </span>It was in my
back pack, but the rain came down so hard that it soaked through anyway.<span> </span>After having carted the camera all over the
Continent, I neglected to wrap it in a plastic bag today . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaPxpoNoqu8YoijZcMHLttr8owZ3gVn9XPuLbbYAuh3MYNdJleRn3tbmoVExaysNK3AbreTrqoAjZJYoR9Pd41WxeBUT5wvRWgmy8yzuI6aAOKYRR1b1koxKK7N9NXCAp93VV7ZHm39w82QlQbpGHHvXUeOP5ndDqQuoxRLC-XbAxOsumioI8nvMJDzw=s867" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaPxpoNoqu8YoijZcMHLttr8owZ3gVn9XPuLbbYAuh3MYNdJleRn3tbmoVExaysNK3AbreTrqoAjZJYoR9Pd41WxeBUT5wvRWgmy8yzuI6aAOKYRR1b1koxKK7N9NXCAp93VV7ZHm39w82QlQbpGHHvXUeOP5ndDqQuoxRLC-XbAxOsumioI8nvMJDzw=w480-h640" title="RIP: A Rebel Without A Charge . . ." width="480" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In any event, J.P. learned about the
weather to be expected as he heads south tomorrow on the Northwestern start of his Big
Year.<span> </span>And, I finished my Peregrination
with no new species for the day, but with a mix of wonder and of relief.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg07WUfsDXCDPC7oiJmM4Mvz5REQYeokJE2mpHqvh8lX7714EHWF8s8cWix1qfuGpOiPHkke6eLI406cRWa6ldsYsWuLrUENdNSMoIu_Ad0VG1Jy3SqOdY2BjDOzXmK29ByQG-d_4HFTjV89ybiArLdKW-oq-C5Xcp7Fa76mKSKwptegIUeViD5n0W9wQ=s1262" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1262" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg07WUfsDXCDPC7oiJmM4Mvz5REQYeokJE2mpHqvh8lX7714EHWF8s8cWix1qfuGpOiPHkke6eLI406cRWa6ldsYsWuLrUENdNSMoIu_Ad0VG1Jy3SqOdY2BjDOzXmK29ByQG-d_4HFTjV89ybiArLdKW-oq-C5Xcp7Fa76mKSKwptegIUeViD5n0W9wQ=w640-h406" title="The Peregrination is At An End" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nisqually Refuge eBird checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62828205" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqlkcl4WVcaUAFUW42NZk1CJP4TkIfR4pFc572rkFRisYPBPRZJj_mhOapT-FIO9_0neJQRBX-evujYbrdYUNnllDl4C3LyW3rKhXlKHpPl1lEOT1c_vwj_nltrUXF35CXvElcUVqmqFThkb4OuQ097yYXC7sjFdge24MSnlo0UsTERx8F-dqFUTUeIw=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqlkcl4WVcaUAFUW42NZk1CJP4TkIfR4pFc572rkFRisYPBPRZJj_mhOapT-FIO9_0neJQRBX-evujYbrdYUNnllDl4C3LyW3rKhXlKHpPl1lEOT1c_vwj_nltrUXF35CXvElcUVqmqFThkb4OuQ097yYXC7sjFdge24MSnlo0UsTERx8F-dqFUTUeIw=w640-h426" title="The Year Went Full Circle . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, 100 Brown Farm Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98516, USA47.072769 -122.712728818.762535163821155 -157.86897879999998 75.383002836178846 -87.5564788tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-36082783658354514052022-02-28T20:39:00.001-08:002022-02-28T20:39:41.033-08:00December 27-30, 2019 - Pishing Toward The End Of The Year!<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“Pishing” is the “psss-psss-psssh”
noise that birders make, especially in the wintertime, to attempt to draw a
skulking bird out of cover for a view.<span>
</span>The sound imitates a distress call, and sparrows, chickadees and finches,
especially, are likely to respond.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQPuvcJ8eLtA2ERnyvUYPNwFEs6jwu2Nkx35RY8Pcz68W_cdwvIkCtDCYwSs3cJO5ttcxpWwQ2ieBF46_N0xqQfroVe65K7RHothVNDKhhJLVKt9N8TMBeTuHlucINXmnmSL1WxEL0u4AubxYzm8gVpfKk2VUKBOocFOSg4n5PTjXkwkMsqyN-8ZL3LA=s3200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2031" data-original-width="3200" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQPuvcJ8eLtA2ERnyvUYPNwFEs6jwu2Nkx35RY8Pcz68W_cdwvIkCtDCYwSs3cJO5ttcxpWwQ2ieBF46_N0xqQfroVe65K7RHothVNDKhhJLVKt9N8TMBeTuHlucINXmnmSL1WxEL0u4AubxYzm8gVpfKk2VUKBOocFOSg4n5PTjXkwkMsqyN-8ZL3LA=w640-h406" title="Female House Finch being watched by a Black-capped Chickadee" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span> </span><span></span></span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This technique is thought to work due
to its similarity to the scold calls of chickadees and “tits”, which is what
the birds do when mobbing a predator, attracting other birds which come in to check
out the potential threat.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisGgxvc7hlAvQVOMriGAda0PK8bwj058HB1Pop2sp2fTTFF79miTlV6ETDdLzb_2XlHAnHrKscMCStcueZQOwSY7itdBIpxeuOFfL8YqQGB5UegdO1CkhkzAVi0ieeG7Ecl-1lhD5FZh9n-cH_XCzrb5B37Xwab9mfimZPcPtK1t0o9Vt_Ztz8vRlOXg=s3280" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2296" data-original-width="3280" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisGgxvc7hlAvQVOMriGAda0PK8bwj058HB1Pop2sp2fTTFF79miTlV6ETDdLzb_2XlHAnHrKscMCStcueZQOwSY7itdBIpxeuOFfL8YqQGB5UegdO1CkhkzAVi0ieeG7Ecl-1lhD5FZh9n-cH_XCzrb5B37Xwab9mfimZPcPtK1t0o9Vt_Ztz8vRlOXg=w640-h448" title="Black-capped Chickadee" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />I’d taken time off from birding for the
past week or so - Christmas with family and out-of-town friends, followed by a
“stomach bug” kept me close to home.</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1237gEg5L-zFZPuiPwWgFD5oufpE7qVZew0EEt32sx_KXTXOvd167VeaD0OrUfslIKTCdEdU3qIBY0ACIJKm87LYXq3iIy_JZUD6ig_9aWcwGYjfPm0Owx0cOUWdFPwqUk_3NTeAHBYYMhdTpyIvQxM97m6SY86s5zXQZ4A7yrbjJg_g3hZnd1df0EA=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1237gEg5L-zFZPuiPwWgFD5oufpE7qVZew0EEt32sx_KXTXOvd167VeaD0OrUfslIKTCdEdU3qIBY0ACIJKm87LYXq3iIy_JZUD6ig_9aWcwGYjfPm0Owx0cOUWdFPwqUk_3NTeAHBYYMhdTpyIvQxM97m6SY86s5zXQZ4A7yrbjJg_g3hZnd1df0EA=w640-h426" title="Immature Bald Eagles sorting through the chum salmon carcasses" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Finally getting out on Saint John’s Day
Friday, I headed toward the Washington Coast, hoping to find something
“exciting”.<span> </span>My first stop was at the
mouth of Perry Creek, a tributary of Puget Sound’s Eld Inlet, just west of
Olympia.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhirPRFckjSsdDINpBfIquHL41M-DQLXTrCI5sITtsZFT_zHlj-0oyt44hpEr2HiTPoVtZ-Jg5Mo0O1-B0HenVv-K1VffF6MnRLiF4l_MpJyot_6XtQqmUQKT5R3SgRaV4219VvFMGbdzwI3onnJpC9r344z3jQSWaLsp_eh8g13GUyBX3Q2WWjt6AF9A=s750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhirPRFckjSsdDINpBfIquHL41M-DQLXTrCI5sITtsZFT_zHlj-0oyt44hpEr2HiTPoVtZ-Jg5Mo0O1-B0HenVv-K1VffF6MnRLiF4l_MpJyot_6XtQqmUQKT5R3SgRaV4219VvFMGbdzwI3onnJpC9r344z3jQSWaLsp_eh8g13GUyBX3Q2WWjt6AF9A=w640-h426" title="NOAA - Chum Salmon" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />There is a run of fall chum salmon into
the creek every year.<span> </span>The chum
population in Eld Inlet averages 52,000 adults in odd-numbers years like this,
and 50,000 in even years, with most spawning taking place in McLane, Swift and
Perry creeks.<span> </span>Pacific Salmon are
anadromous (migratory) and semelparous (die after spawning), and the gulls and
eagles take advantage of this abundance of protein to help get through the
winter.</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJAICjgUtRPek3Ox9AY2Ilw-yprW15Tjw6_Hh2XBxnewMFtbpx17KgvAIkz4ws7bxJBgLdS-kBZp-N7Eau2RNOdYz255X1BVUijN84D4kdjAq9pZY-sjJ3xNbupQhw7fJACH0_Y96hIxYxK0rp8fh5ThOgNRzlyyEe0RnhKCpQLsInIYntZSUJj-PRxw=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJAICjgUtRPek3Ox9AY2Ilw-yprW15Tjw6_Hh2XBxnewMFtbpx17KgvAIkz4ws7bxJBgLdS-kBZp-N7Eau2RNOdYz255X1BVUijN84D4kdjAq9pZY-sjJ3xNbupQhw7fJACH0_Y96hIxYxK0rp8fh5ThOgNRzlyyEe0RnhKCpQLsInIYntZSUJj-PRxw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Even weeks after the fish have gone to
the “Big School In The Sky”, their carcasses provide foraging to a good number
of birds.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLpIT1_f9UvslnuYmJJJYo9bTeC30fBtQpTK8NHYz-Y0KkuI7voODMJ-Ivt5ZLyLqzDT4HGuu7cRv95ED3T-7F_iL4Esm2nwDzI4DE2kL4DIF9jkP22K8HL5w2Xl-4XIQU9lNFV2YEsqbkJyhN_0N0yrOoaqbJV_X-3YyAcFEK0MBFF4PaPlfZs1sl0w=s3664" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2396" data-original-width="3664" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLpIT1_f9UvslnuYmJJJYo9bTeC30fBtQpTK8NHYz-Y0KkuI7voODMJ-Ivt5ZLyLqzDT4HGuu7cRv95ED3T-7F_iL4Esm2nwDzI4DE2kL4DIF9jkP22K8HL5w2Xl-4XIQU9lNFV2YEsqbkJyhN_0N0yrOoaqbJV_X-3YyAcFEK0MBFF4PaPlfZs1sl0w=w640-h418" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">People would expect eagles and gulls to
tear into the piscine larder, but are surprised that waterfowl will also take
part in the feast.<span> </span>There were a number
of mergansers, Hooded and Common, feeding in the stream on dead fish and
washed-out eggs of the salmon.<span> </span>These
species have serrated bills to hold onto prey, and are often called “fish
ducks”.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJp7UoqlA4GqX95fhTT31MzSn0chr2nSkhUFOq4tolM3wvBQwIvctT1Lyqm_FgUulOvjOfA6sRVGKwNNjEqS1p3-GAsCInkQuTf3GMX2VyM83o3PLkQwUpbPe4maRxgSoWWhM7v0UQPYCn23ukvZe5_35m0sDdkItDAN-hkxroVDQWFUnBNVrbBiDRA=s3964" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2701" data-original-width="3964" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJp7UoqlA4GqX95fhTT31MzSn0chr2nSkhUFOq4tolM3wvBQwIvctT1Lyqm_FgUulOvjOfA6sRVGKwNNjEqS1p3-GAsCInkQuTf3GMX2VyM83o3PLkQwUpbPe4maRxgSoWWhM7v0UQPYCn23ukvZe5_35m0sDdkItDAN-hkxroVDQWFUnBNVrbBiDRA=w640-h436" title="Hooded Mergansers - Lophodytes cucullatus" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />It surprises people that other ducks
will also feed on fish.<span> </span>The Mallard is
often considered a prime species for the table:<span>
</span>When it is feeding on corn!<span> </span>Here
in the Pacific Northwest, Mallards will often congregate at salmon spawning
streams to feed, like the gulls, on rotten salmon carcasses.<span> </span>In these circumstances, their flesh tastes
pretty much like what they are feeding on . . . </span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkGsF6HyGe-cxGGbXT2oTg8njEhJCoKAIk4o8bDK2PXn7y4h0BR-EIyoxiiHPF0UuOoU7eDmxwpBdLHdU1fT1_4wO3N2mk4pGe7-sy8YIoZ-Qlj4_Lcw5mbH5jjgQ-idsypOpct6KD6Ko1-jLiTXrTyygERh9NTaz976qa6ctvgLlw0zsdBGat6ej4sQ=s3800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2274" data-original-width="3800" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkGsF6HyGe-cxGGbXT2oTg8njEhJCoKAIk4o8bDK2PXn7y4h0BR-EIyoxiiHPF0UuOoU7eDmxwpBdLHdU1fT1_4wO3N2mk4pGe7-sy8YIoZ-Qlj4_Lcw5mbH5jjgQ-idsypOpct6KD6Ko1-jLiTXrTyygERh9NTaz976qa6ctvgLlw0zsdBGat6ej4sQ=w640-h382" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I made a quick swing along the Wenzel
Slough Road, looping off of State Highway 12 along the Chehalis River bottom
south of Elma, checking out the Trumpeter Swan flock.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGzF8h7eYSai9e3d1_gURZ4dqzToScWrhjey2kSlGnzvNRmKTqBpMa_9Nza9u3tw5JVtEe-DiMaaY45YbUwk3Qp4GGQst7VzBA5r-WySy61Lq0V64TweTsa14jKKoOO84eEJxfQFMIYvlXxxGC2fMqZiEv6d4aLrjkNtdlO-Nfgw04IKw23LwhS6YBag=s1457" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1457" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGzF8h7eYSai9e3d1_gURZ4dqzToScWrhjey2kSlGnzvNRmKTqBpMa_9Nza9u3tw5JVtEe-DiMaaY45YbUwk3Qp4GGQst7VzBA5r-WySy61Lq0V64TweTsa14jKKoOO84eEJxfQFMIYvlXxxGC2fMqZiEv6d4aLrjkNtdlO-Nfgw04IKw23LwhS6YBag=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />My next stop was at the Westport
Marina, where I spent time sorting through the flock of 800 Marbled Godwits,
hoping to suss out a rarity.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8D0IkPAz7RsWWlC8YXTEqU3qQd-iBiGGPq3uKjjZojWgl8Op1k_BUOB10-hf2DkqJ-YLs2OsMLu8AtiqxqeOw_AfxqF_wsBCr_CbUcnbMmESELJzywwu4QowhWb082_gtMeHSYuS9gyY0-cY9YRa5Bx6re8FnCTDPa59kOnRJa6v-JAB_HJFmAmhF0A=s4903" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3269" data-original-width="4903" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8D0IkPAz7RsWWlC8YXTEqU3qQd-iBiGGPq3uKjjZojWgl8Op1k_BUOB10-hf2DkqJ-YLs2OsMLu8AtiqxqeOw_AfxqF_wsBCr_CbUcnbMmESELJzywwu4QowhWb082_gtMeHSYuS9gyY0-cY9YRa5Bx6re8FnCTDPa59kOnRJa6v-JAB_HJFmAmhF0A=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />When the tide is right, and the
California Sea Lions aren’t monopolizing the old docks, the Godwits use the
floats as a roosting spot, giving birders good views.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVEPh0GqxfqJE-KVehvbvLBaGDxAhr6ZQn-yjwTG3Ea097B0ynl0u7C0nVvIYcYhwMGvNMAQCYnkEjxwO_WKZ5BFiJXaw0783pOecrQYOpQct5NUkGId1AFFB3GOBBhzYkyJcjY3lg-2r9bY8TU9U98Api6MiycInCFncJWAauTRsYTUbENScII5zZgg=s2316" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="2316" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVEPh0GqxfqJE-KVehvbvLBaGDxAhr6ZQn-yjwTG3Ea097B0ynl0u7C0nVvIYcYhwMGvNMAQCYnkEjxwO_WKZ5BFiJXaw0783pOecrQYOpQct5NUkGId1AFFB3GOBBhzYkyJcjY3lg-2r9bY8TU9U98Api6MiycInCFncJWAauTRsYTUbENScII5zZgg=w640-h310" title="Godwits and Friends" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Neither the “Coast Guard floats” nor
the finger jetties had any unusual birds, but it is always interesting to watch
the fishing boats come in.<span> </span>Here, the
Lady Nancy, a 42-foot crabber built in 1979, returns to harbor.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfBWEc83fF_26eaKvMA2LHIDPrk7QxHmr4eRfP7Q74xF7SDWbwTi2ZWrB6V-ZfBJ8lpM_9We97K-JLYq5g1N2pHmK9UsMnRg0VnRaXYro9_eONaTIvW-1mNiB9dwZLCwXjomFl9ctNl3LzMi_jkOBlsIQd4oLbkz07RSALXWonub6zjOuHUpET2CTP0w=s4464" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2842" data-original-width="4464" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfBWEc83fF_26eaKvMA2LHIDPrk7QxHmr4eRfP7Q74xF7SDWbwTi2ZWrB6V-ZfBJ8lpM_9We97K-JLYq5g1N2pHmK9UsMnRg0VnRaXYro9_eONaTIvW-1mNiB9dwZLCwXjomFl9ctNl3LzMi_jkOBlsIQd4oLbkz07RSALXWonub6zjOuHUpET2CTP0w=w640-h408" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />The recent weather and high tides had
flooded some of the town’s streets with salt water.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRHrs17Dtd5D_jGZuqn9xVxSEfChYMPtLcSkYcJZ4orAifmscmJ10ghlLbNfQRMroxSs4s-8hM7LXYtwHc1k_-Ra7RXm9eqPu-d7AMYbCxvo1s7cHcihyH88wOiV4aVUyi5VbyXdnF9-MjExY1HvVpLzREKWhjsY_NK2R6djIV_8JHLhcqam66jeQdgw=s5015" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3343" data-original-width="5015" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRHrs17Dtd5D_jGZuqn9xVxSEfChYMPtLcSkYcJZ4orAifmscmJ10ghlLbNfQRMroxSs4s-8hM7LXYtwHc1k_-Ra7RXm9eqPu-d7AMYbCxvo1s7cHcihyH88wOiV4aVUyi5VbyXdnF9-MjExY1HvVpLzREKWhjsY_NK2R6djIV_8JHLhcqam66jeQdgw=w640-h426" title="Beautiful, Soggy, Downtown Westport" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />I go out of my way to avoid driving
through salt - salt water, salt water beaches, or States that salt the roads
for snow and ice.<span> </span>With that in mind, I own
a 1989 Corolla with 200K miles and not a spot of rust!</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU1gtSlL5l_UGHD4Rg_ckIupXE0hKW2aUusTjoVi7pdb1Dhml6t3ShaTWMVD16yEGOHf0yCyvHZuxeH-H1P14rrSPqrXmH6oml2qx7Ie5n1qAdch_HFfhoxr7fAuc7Z0j_BdOlIT3t4ECCNTqykllE0uHoWStUgzZEjcs0kWSSazEE_mphJhJSs5awJg=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU1gtSlL5l_UGHD4Rg_ckIupXE0hKW2aUusTjoVi7pdb1Dhml6t3ShaTWMVD16yEGOHf0yCyvHZuxeH-H1P14rrSPqrXmH6oml2qx7Ie5n1qAdch_HFfhoxr7fAuc7Z0j_BdOlIT3t4ECCNTqykllE0uHoWStUgzZEjcs0kWSSazEE_mphJhJSs5awJg=w640-h426" title="Don’t drive through this!" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Another birding “hotspot” is down in
Pacific County, where the little marina at Tokeland provides habitat for birds
and easy access to birders.<span> </span>On the way
through “town”, I noticed a flock of Dusky Canada Geese.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT5gTBc5JcoFcEo2zX7s_jkVhPiRsKHgyuxcaB5zwonMaYnzZH4cpAwAnvapXpU6Dtq_7gAxT-yNjNj47yygsOd2Ti6UH45GeDTUQacRe2D5_Uj8s3NqVwbxvWGNWfNyem0YeqIYpINUI3C16P1Proo3789wnOjqeAQNLUemtrtPe6mWwUu-cWZmuH4g=s4039" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2428" data-original-width="4039" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT5gTBc5JcoFcEo2zX7s_jkVhPiRsKHgyuxcaB5zwonMaYnzZH4cpAwAnvapXpU6Dtq_7gAxT-yNjNj47yygsOd2Ti6UH45GeDTUQacRe2D5_Uj8s3NqVwbxvWGNWfNyem0YeqIYpINUI3C16P1Proo3789wnOjqeAQNLUemtrtPe6mWwUu-cWZmuH4g=w640-h384" title="Duskies (Branta canadensis occidentalis)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />This subspecies nests on Alaska’s
Copper River Delta, and winters along the Washington and Oregon coasts, as well
as along the lower Columbia River and Willamette Valley.<span> </span>The population was heavily impacted by the
1964 Earthquake that raised the Delta, draining it which resulted in shrubs and
trees growing in former marshland.<span> </span>Then,
predators moved into the former marsh, and significantly reduced survival of
this unique race of birds.</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgux6QQn-2_6u28-rYyK_7Bn4Jr_stdAAZ8KSi67m8vRMOaf982KgQuormEYLhrGEkSUys_e3n0mjgWy_k15ONTln1cOJbuKLTNp_NjUtmM8ACDppxdmSpLAaAO5A6rEX_f2sjSjB-D5VPPty-kaRygl77yz_hmCoErxYspf_vb1H-OF50SVsKvg1gYDw=s3346" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1761" data-original-width="3346" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgux6QQn-2_6u28-rYyK_7Bn4Jr_stdAAZ8KSi67m8vRMOaf982KgQuormEYLhrGEkSUys_e3n0mjgWy_k15ONTln1cOJbuKLTNp_NjUtmM8ACDppxdmSpLAaAO5A6rEX_f2sjSjB-D5VPPty-kaRygl77yz_hmCoErxYspf_vb1H-OF50SVsKvg1gYDw=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />On the floats and shoreline at the <a href="http://www.portofwillapaharbor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8:tokeland-marina&catid=2:facilities&Itemid=5" target="_blank">Tokeland Marina</a> were more Godwits, and mixed into the flock were a number of Willets.<span> </span>This is one of the few places in the Pacific
Northwest where a birder can expect to find this species during the winter.<span> </span>I saw nothing ‘new’ for me for the year, and
am reconciled to that fact.<span> </span>It’d be nice
to pick up another species or two for the year, but without travelling, the
likelihood is low.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJDfoy5Ec5WokrU1OazrABgTVNhy3iFgxY9dNu4CzW1SzpKqWYe5HkMaYdU0SJ3vjieICdWaib3mMFLiiYi6CAoJCk6dMVIJT98VJW378_RE6n6GCNtX9XLPCF712ZVfu0J0V2tUkXhrrHhIqSlOmapGHFDm92FsJem3UQaNC8J106OW43FFWYHVeuMA=s3905" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2346" data-original-width="3905" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJDfoy5Ec5WokrU1OazrABgTVNhy3iFgxY9dNu4CzW1SzpKqWYe5HkMaYdU0SJ3vjieICdWaib3mMFLiiYi6CAoJCk6dMVIJT98VJW378_RE6n6GCNtX9XLPCF712ZVfu0J0V2tUkXhrrHhIqSlOmapGHFDm92FsJem3UQaNC8J106OW43FFWYHVeuMA=w640-h384" title="Willets (Tringa semipalmata)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />On the way out of the marina area, I
saw some Greater White-fronted Geese grazing near the RV Park.<span> </span>These geese are referred to as
“Speckle-bellies” by the waterfowl hunters, due to the dark splotching on their
undersides.<span> </span>As you can see in the photo,
the adults have a white patch of feathers at the base of their bills, while the
immature bird has none.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgsKYrtWJ5I5Nj5HWuL-qjY64IMAJ7aP_XNAU6evozYZMtshKw5iuq_j8MsfSVD9PQw5SiHlClCeNuvz9pEBTY5yGfqlUYCCLarznTP6LIa9epNqaiZ6CcjnmiLLL2VkC0ekXZ8NWE3qJwkpOLCP0ehf_RgpMEojOItJDL_1a1Efr8pwehQoyIeexzfg=s4737" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2970" data-original-width="4737" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgsKYrtWJ5I5Nj5HWuL-qjY64IMAJ7aP_XNAU6evozYZMtshKw5iuq_j8MsfSVD9PQw5SiHlClCeNuvz9pEBTY5yGfqlUYCCLarznTP6LIa9epNqaiZ6CcjnmiLLL2VkC0ekXZ8NWE3qJwkpOLCP0ehf_RgpMEojOItJDL_1a1Efr8pwehQoyIeexzfg=w640-h402" title="Greater White-fronts (Anser albifrons)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">UH . . .<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXjssx-n10c9QnFrhw_2rjN1dvhFMnvC3y7VUYlXcuHjAYM-7PT6uiQTu0OyEXMqifJ2WmmZ3NU9-6borczWAiIYCNnEa4bZsrq3aHdp-560yu1kj9AuFUBgDt3AliDOQ19_BHwUhffJjQVGmPjeGn4rNGpKIOMuh3MwqRMGcEiTVuWgt573cxtmfZyg=s1783" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="1783" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXjssx-n10c9QnFrhw_2rjN1dvhFMnvC3y7VUYlXcuHjAYM-7PT6uiQTu0OyEXMqifJ2WmmZ3NU9-6borczWAiIYCNnEa4bZsrq3aHdp-560yu1kj9AuFUBgDt3AliDOQ19_BHwUhffJjQVGmPjeGn4rNGpKIOMuh3MwqRMGcEiTVuWgt573cxtmfZyg=w640-h442" title="Female Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) banded last July 17th in Alaska" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />No, I’m not necessarily confused.<span> </span>I <i>was</i> surprised to also find a pair of
Black Brant grazing in the grassy parking area.<span>
</span>The “classic” view of these birds is them feeding on eel grass in the
bays or in Puget Sound.<span> </span>One of the birds
sported a plastic neck collar which read “UH”.<span>
</span>The <a href="ASC https://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/avian_influenza/species/species.php?code=BLBR" target="_blank">Alaska Science Center</a> marked this bird along the Colville River as an
adult female during a <a href="Brant Project https://alaska.usgs.gov/portal/project.php?project_id=76" target="_blank">study of the survival and distribution</a> of Brant.<span> </span><i><b>Whenever</b> </i>one is able to read an ‘auxiliary
marker’ such as a plastic neck collar, a patagial (wing) tag, or a leg band, it
should be reported to the U.S. Geological Survey’s <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/labs/bird-banding-laboratory" target="_blank">Bird Banding Lab</a>.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4XLGgQJWbN0NorFRzlqyUTdMQ3MJdE6cZuhxIMygbgMz-LdujvJIBnPIIiDbjI5Q6uv1a-vCAXrksESJ-XrUHRKh2bpT_rTCPGo93gbfbTbS_BDyyQwphHr27sJ6TJkAjRSmSl7gzov2qTObMKpkcXiPPVB66EEVBJ4TjO01FjXCO1FZMfWeaa1KOFA=s4190" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="4190" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4XLGgQJWbN0NorFRzlqyUTdMQ3MJdE6cZuhxIMygbgMz-LdujvJIBnPIIiDbjI5Q6uv1a-vCAXrksESJ-XrUHRKh2bpT_rTCPGo93gbfbTbS_BDyyQwphHr27sJ6TJkAjRSmSl7gzov2qTObMKpkcXiPPVB66EEVBJ4TjO01FjXCO1FZMfWeaa1KOFA=w640-h410" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">On Saturday, I had some errands to do
around town so got little birding in, except what I did while walking downtown
from my west OlyWA home.<span> </span>While going
over my species list on Sunday, I was provided with a challenge:<span> </span>I realized that during all my travels this
year, I had - somehow - not “twitched” a Rusty Blackbird!<span> </span>A female of the species had <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62676297" target="_blank">recently been seen</a> up at the <a href="https://cityofpt.us/parksrec/page/kah-tai-lagoon-nature-park" target="_blank">Kai Tai Lagoon Park</a> in Port Townsend.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiazwuAEUQbHJihnGzof9PK8CMWSAKWtixKe95MWicUKk1ek_ZZmu2DEs68FZm6L2P6aT7MBS_3N_UoYrp1KuOVTdAY95fMAJ0uB79lUaJV0iNFFaRmssH5k_yxAPFwdSiNxqBd8J1q0r2sFMKpGQVLb7Ee20DAUjKZpE7QHNHb7DOW3Au_JS2nqihWrw=s1200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiazwuAEUQbHJihnGzof9PK8CMWSAKWtixKe95MWicUKk1ek_ZZmu2DEs68FZm6L2P6aT7MBS_3N_UoYrp1KuOVTdAY95fMAJ0uB79lUaJV0iNFFaRmssH5k_yxAPFwdSiNxqBd8J1q0r2sFMKpGQVLb7Ee20DAUjKZpE7QHNHb7DOW3Au_JS2nqihWrw=w640-h426" title="Rusty Blackbird “Wikipedia photo: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.”" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />So, I made the two-hour drive to Port
Townsend to look the Blackbird.<span> </span>The Park
was created around a former pocket estuary that was ‘orphaned’ during port
development in the 1960s.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhnlafO_sVw05qLY_YjopBg0-Z9G5CedNtoH4a810FgfQry0U3LAZ3zZ-sKypN58HiwGVGCTtx4SIU-Itnzf9F3fpzrtjk7s7ALgWvbfNUqrda_jPbAKm51jRIsNHFGLll6PCk1-wv_mLywSdFgRzvGhANVv27HidIYSX_N8ToAVxuruj1LTr8KzWsQw=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhnlafO_sVw05qLY_YjopBg0-Z9G5CedNtoH4a810FgfQry0U3LAZ3zZ-sKypN58HiwGVGCTtx4SIU-Itnzf9F3fpzrtjk7s7ALgWvbfNUqrda_jPbAKm51jRIsNHFGLll6PCk1-wv_mLywSdFgRzvGhANVv27HidIYSX_N8ToAVxuruj1LTr8KzWsQw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />I had no success with the species, but met a few other
birders there.<span> </span>One was Monica, for whom
the blackbird would have been a “Lifer”, and the other was a gentleman named
Richard, who was there with his mother Anne.<span>
</span>We all “dipped” on seeing the wayward blackbird, but I believe we were
all happy to be in the outdoors on this overcast (but not raining) day.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyPW6UvyvEL571698dVWK5MnXD1eT4vAX2b7P4YNL1g-o4RTJJ7ZygYItW8fbsv3kab8nLVO0BgqUH4vdVehQhuBzFr94hhPXChU9e-H6mJ5JH81GSyqE8uv-NPrm7oyuqY0rCuJzTLatnN-UG8Nu14f3M3Qs1gNRYUg4l2RHJzxNzEGlEi3WRlK3Qfg=s3761" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="3761" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyPW6UvyvEL571698dVWK5MnXD1eT4vAX2b7P4YNL1g-o4RTJJ7ZygYItW8fbsv3kab8nLVO0BgqUH4vdVehQhuBzFr94hhPXChU9e-H6mJ5JH81GSyqE8uv-NPrm7oyuqY0rCuJzTLatnN-UG8Nu14f3M3Qs1gNRYUg4l2RHJzxNzEGlEi3WRlK3Qfg=w640-h236" title="Hooded Merganser pair" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />With no trace of the blackbird, I
thought about giving the Lagoon a rest, and drove up to the Fort Worden State
Park to check out the beaches and scope the waters off of Point Wilson.<span> </span>And, I always like seeing the lighthouse
here.<span> </span>It’s showing a bit of wear, and
one would hope that the Coast Guard could put a little effort into upkeep.</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoP0gzUPUG5ATq7dKklTL_hrMdDgrcfdI2cEZvXiQYPXvn3EOiv06LQfNcC2fo3dU20d8BEFyuspChsP0wcXu2-UpWNKeLJZsFsHd7-ahpAShBF5dYm_akHHjH4gs3FT1MBoM332gBl7S29VeJ7aJKQqYC7ShUl5LtQGwtrmwqzNvFYjzgUvl9lDCJGg=s4983" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3323" data-original-width="4983" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoP0gzUPUG5ATq7dKklTL_hrMdDgrcfdI2cEZvXiQYPXvn3EOiv06LQfNcC2fo3dU20d8BEFyuspChsP0wcXu2-UpWNKeLJZsFsHd7-ahpAShBF5dYm_akHHjH4gs3FT1MBoM332gBl7S29VeJ7aJKQqYC7ShUl5LtQGwtrmwqzNvFYjzgUvl9lDCJGg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />One of the great things about this area
is the views of the Cascades Mountains:</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHhwI9sfQAZp1_c-sbQHAybfy7rBV94VqTBxTu41CoqCNSeidSejQSRmoNuH29rgsAlxxJyRo0F5a9lS4Tit4J3XIxQsH6Khv_H_FycJF_O6yyrxAIyi6ewM_OKgIsy5ekyH3Gg5i2OkjeUeXi0TIwoInzkI_4r3TKOKv8phiqWhm3rJGOPu43dsEdg=s5139" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2679" data-original-width="5139" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHhwI9sfQAZp1_c-sbQHAybfy7rBV94VqTBxTu41CoqCNSeidSejQSRmoNuH29rgsAlxxJyRo0F5a9lS4Tit4J3XIxQsH6Khv_H_FycJF_O6yyrxAIyi6ewM_OKgIsy5ekyH3Gg5i2OkjeUeXi0TIwoInzkI_4r3TKOKv8phiqWhm3rJGOPu43dsEdg=w640-h334" title="Mount Baker" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0tuR6PQ73BxD-eUO1sK3Gq_dzWeao1U6ajZgkRyzx0QQL_-EJT-r9GpevVrS2wtAap2pKiq_16BxZQcfcuoM0iMO7_ka8-QyT85r0jsMXlFMJ_6Mu15-3TYfwMfk4anPoCljqZWcqFdAOMjfbREOO3ZBHRGhrSORjPUgn3OSt5qCpT4Gy2p3DQ2ZNHw=s5053" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2914" data-original-width="5053" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0tuR6PQ73BxD-eUO1sK3Gq_dzWeao1U6ajZgkRyzx0QQL_-EJT-r9GpevVrS2wtAap2pKiq_16BxZQcfcuoM0iMO7_ka8-QyT85r0jsMXlFMJ_6Mu15-3TYfwMfk4anPoCljqZWcqFdAOMjfbREOO3ZBHRGhrSORjPUgn3OSt5qCpT4Gy2p3DQ2ZNHw=w640-h370" title="Wildhorse Mountain - Three Fingers - Glacier Peak" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzA4dUSIuu3T0FP-fJH3Dhxg99LHgBun6pY1nxgJ2ol2_Ekjfx1qiP8EQhnjiRfCzAORXAcTFudimwO0Qv4Tsyy-V3V_TqgM0m6pcO9Y6iaD_aAK461Xl5qbcg-vIQbUJRxN1B_9WuJkeMGP6oGPl4maGZlYU5V8bZ_waDd0-xSf-JJGtxKIykOx1YEw=s5183" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="5183" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzA4dUSIuu3T0FP-fJH3Dhxg99LHgBun6pY1nxgJ2ol2_Ekjfx1qiP8EQhnjiRfCzAORXAcTFudimwO0Qv4Tsyy-V3V_TqgM0m6pcO9Y6iaD_aAK461Xl5qbcg-vIQbUJRxN1B_9WuJkeMGP6oGPl4maGZlYU5V8bZ_waDd0-xSf-JJGtxKIykOx1YEw=w640-h306" title="And - 'way down south - Mount Rainier" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There is a good view of Admiralty Inlet
and the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca from <a href="https://www.parks.wa.gov/511/Fort-Worden" target="_blank">Fort Warden State Park</a>, and the
dock at the <a href="https://ptmsc.org/" target="_blank">Marine Science Center</a>.<span> </span>The Center
and its aquarium is a great little natural history museum, and well worth
visiting if you’re in the area.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWKFc26URw5BIaWfxX7Q-p9h-ggdLxTd8C7XJ71zgXQkkFRX2tqrv5xapktTJdE4kiPPgQTKKnXxZeWGJ-zKioXbQ_skGe4De8wvS9l9h3MmKcRCVNyzBFSKsFWPJzw8E9o--Fv7nijohCCkBzXArpSzWwjfadbINd--BMzcxmAidG6quTefG89byXVQ=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3118" data-original-width="5184" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWKFc26URw5BIaWfxX7Q-p9h-ggdLxTd8C7XJ71zgXQkkFRX2tqrv5xapktTJdE4kiPPgQTKKnXxZeWGJ-zKioXbQ_skGe4De8wvS9l9h3MmKcRCVNyzBFSKsFWPJzw8E9o--Fv7nijohCCkBzXArpSzWwjfadbINd--BMzcxmAidG6quTefG89byXVQ=w640-h384" title="Marine Science Center" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I didn’t see much exciting, other than
a nice Black Oystercatcher hunting the rocks at the tide line.<span> </span>Whereas the American Oystercatcher is usually
found on sandy beaches and mud flats, our Black species is almost always found
on rocks or rocky shorelines.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpYKZX2iirjbw27Z8_jcMnkNMnpz4W6KwkbUeeiS1vnRwhlp_B9cN0dhWpn7Ixn4Ndbo0-zOGiF0M4rYD-ud9e-qmepDPwYZv0IWXlhYJJv_fKGQTpHA_fbDmGTfAnasgIG6Co_p3RH9V3W0wZLf_fluV8YTyJwGrasXBDr0EVnCgiVjG5fFQjWfEyng=s2500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="2500" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpYKZX2iirjbw27Z8_jcMnkNMnpz4W6KwkbUeeiS1vnRwhlp_B9cN0dhWpn7Ixn4Ndbo0-zOGiF0M4rYD-ud9e-qmepDPwYZv0IWXlhYJJv_fKGQTpHA_fbDmGTfAnasgIG6Co_p3RH9V3W0wZLf_fluV8YTyJwGrasXBDr0EVnCgiVjG5fFQjWfEyng=w640-h364" title="Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />I finally went back to Kai Tai Park, walking
from the Kearney Street parking lot to the west end of the lake, but was again
unsuccessful at finding the blackbird.<span> </span>There
were a lot of gulls returning to the lagoon for their evening’s roost, and I picked
an immature Thayer’s Gull from the bunch.<span>
</span>There was also a young Cooper’s Hawk hunting the area, and I hoped that
she hadn’t had the Blackbird for lunch.<span> </span>I
continued birding until dark, and it was time to head home.<span> </span>No new species for the year. . . </span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCawTE2OipgGufMPf9SOPXWHTKRlo9Pl5qq-o_AbX1VJ8hBbviP7bl4BHK0ISx6IiszqrQgT3CXR8_uB27RxYrGbwDfC4MtmKyMaHXYyH-2lZ0spB-CFJ83XsdUOuVD-Lf_-n4qEWtl1-e6IDE5oagKOwKWvd88bL97Env1OIaLkl-lseVcpuHqJMbpg=s2055" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2055" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCawTE2OipgGufMPf9SOPXWHTKRlo9Pl5qq-o_AbX1VJ8hBbviP7bl4BHK0ISx6IiszqrQgT3CXR8_uB27RxYrGbwDfC4MtmKyMaHXYyH-2lZ0spB-CFJ83XsdUOuVD-Lf_-n4qEWtl1-e6IDE5oagKOwKWvd88bL97Env1OIaLkl-lseVcpuHqJMbpg=w640-h424" title="Immature Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />It was Monday the 30th, and I’m running
out of time to find much in the way of ‘new’ species for my Peregrination year.<span> </span>One of the birds I did miss was the Pine
Grosbeak.<span> </span>We often pick them up on our
winter trip to the <a href="https://jonsperegrination.blogspot.com/2019/01/january-19-okanogan-highlands.html" target="_blank">Okanogan Highlands</a>, but missed them this year.<span> </span>With local options for finding another species
diminishing, and time Slip-slidin’ away, I decided to head into the Cascades to
see if I might find one of the wayward Grosbeaks up at White Pass.<span> </span>There was a bit of snow at the Pass, and I
didn’t have equipment to ski or snowshoe around the loop trail at Leech Lake,
so I just walked up to the <a href="https://skiwhitepass.com/nordic-center" target="_blank">Nordic Center</a> & back, finding a family of Gray
Jays.<span> </span>(<i>This species has since been
re-named “Canada Jay” by the Ornithologists’ Society</i>)</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCdnB4IY5UVaJKKJpDTls9VCdWyEZJxAsxNK8PnXRU2udLExxzk0Q_C-AWEU5NKSzH4sLZq7wCRg_aT14SK07dLytU39hVN0-Fz9T-M1TD9zwJW87oYHc9NBzrp1eY0LA5LwmGMWVkl-lqCiU5XDabgifcru2hKC2_BGkVNUOJ1eufnEOXgZPf1ez2aA=s4524" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2959" data-original-width="4524" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCdnB4IY5UVaJKKJpDTls9VCdWyEZJxAsxNK8PnXRU2udLExxzk0Q_C-AWEU5NKSzH4sLZq7wCRg_aT14SK07dLytU39hVN0-Fz9T-M1TD9zwJW87oYHc9NBzrp1eY0LA5LwmGMWVkl-lqCiU5XDabgifcru2hKC2_BGkVNUOJ1eufnEOXgZPf1ez2aA=w640-h418" title="Gray (Canada) Jay (Perisoreus canadensis)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was really quiet up here, for birds,
so I decided to drop down to the trailhead for the Sand Ridge trail in Yakima
County, and walk up to the Wilderness Area.<span>
</span>The area is named after William O. Douglas: an American jurist and
politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and who was known for his strong progressive views, and is often
cited as the Supreme Court's most liberal justice ever.<span> </span>The 1984 Washington Wilderness Act designated
the Cougar Lake Roadless area as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas_Wilderness" target="_blank"><i>William O. Douglas Wilderness</i></a>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvbD-XBFi8EHpqWkjKiT3pH-uJH4D4g0HIVYzFZozSjrQqCzAnnsDTx8xTDvMajGm3Vfq2IyrYbC34vDdI42O61uyvDW1rTY3oGNVrli4iXSz4VkNagVZJY4SrlNfZ1I5OExPhtKlAPU_dVnDBKurpRvNpV0oNaqd-Yy1GvEJJYHxnGUriTyPVNaM1uw=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvbD-XBFi8EHpqWkjKiT3pH-uJH4D4g0HIVYzFZozSjrQqCzAnnsDTx8xTDvMajGm3Vfq2IyrYbC34vDdI42O61uyvDW1rTY3oGNVrli4iXSz4VkNagVZJY4SrlNfZ1I5OExPhtKlAPU_dVnDBKurpRvNpV0oNaqd-Yy1GvEJJYHxnGUriTyPVNaM1uw=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Again: the woods were <i>very</i> still,
and I only found a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers and heard a Nuthatch.<span> </span>With dusk descending on the mountain, I headed
back toward home.<span> </span>No ‘new’ species, but
a day well-spent in the Cascades.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNDWcAcBhgxHENQRitc5zxBeK14hJo8UJQeZ48nCnjFprbY9wjc8CEJPyReG583hxOdd3ROuFAJ0AdLP_XlAyVyvjzYzBf0o1ynR0V4AAl0XdYZG7P60i4f7GKWw04OxDg6-ZCEEue_xizVIPHny97hrRA_seKNYdH1mO6YL0kxn9SNFqNDIkNEJynng=s3336" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3336" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNDWcAcBhgxHENQRitc5zxBeK14hJo8UJQeZ48nCnjFprbY9wjc8CEJPyReG583hxOdd3ROuFAJ0AdLP_XlAyVyvjzYzBf0o1ynR0V4AAl0XdYZG7P60i4f7GKWw04OxDg6-ZCEEue_xizVIPHny97hrRA_seKNYdH1mO6YL0kxn9SNFqNDIkNEJynng=w640-h392" title="Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Dec 27th:</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Perry Creek eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62670385" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Wenzel Slough eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62673601https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62673601" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Westport Marina eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62677308" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Brady’s Oysters eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62678879" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tokeland Marina eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62681176" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYbPsBiZjQLs75MuUi7a9thSYnPL94UqSA6oucwFA3Q34-WigRq6KzKT_5A_vTydYIlERF894AvqvyrI-LDDfKSKoMqT-knVQ0r-R1TlHGr1ioQgjXOhXYoh4qA5icd01L2RA-LajThbluTzgNgxF25MO9Nki2y-I6QzJ39zE5_IPxdJU8soI7c5nqdQ=s1769" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1769" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYbPsBiZjQLs75MuUi7a9thSYnPL94UqSA6oucwFA3Q34-WigRq6KzKT_5A_vTydYIlERF894AvqvyrI-LDDfKSKoMqT-knVQ0r-R1TlHGr1ioQgjXOhXYoh4qA5icd01L2RA-LajThbluTzgNgxF25MO9Nki2y-I6QzJ39zE5_IPxdJU8soI7c5nqdQ=w640-h362" title="Common Loon" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Dec 28th:</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">West OlyWA eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62708023" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">West Bay eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62708750" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheojlt9liqYZUkK8ayE-mnWjLx1UrGHv5dHgUz-s-NJco_v5L2_UrSfwpy89AIrYRtHmyXaS6Mii2jtqv9SrTc4ZqvkY2AZM4OokdYZHUW-c7vpMLzfKJd1IcZkYEyJcy6_ZK1FeBx8hprW8a1Bia2SaqqNiPrSAC_2J7DkncC0sdAYk1WAx9DLtyugQ=s2794" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1961" data-original-width="2794" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheojlt9liqYZUkK8ayE-mnWjLx1UrGHv5dHgUz-s-NJco_v5L2_UrSfwpy89AIrYRtHmyXaS6Mii2jtqv9SrTc4ZqvkY2AZM4OokdYZHUW-c7vpMLzfKJd1IcZkYEyJcy6_ZK1FeBx8hprW8a1Bia2SaqqNiPrSAC_2J7DkncC0sdAYk1WAx9DLtyugQ=w640-h450" title="Sooty Fox Sparrow" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Dec 29th:</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kai Tai Lagoon a.m. eBird Checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62746608" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Marine Science Center eBird Checklist
is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62750123" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Point Wilson Light eBird Checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62752624" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kai Tai Lagoon p.m. eBird Checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62754989" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTRNYhYDMVfONkU2XL4_aCAwiC3UxTIESwdpRBQoNKRSNnrDN7-Y2ODdIzVIL9CQrbcFN_Hb2fFKCcUNUMippgGOVraF5uX4NsGA4LbVCd7TtR3RkBj4nlkHkdH31zBYvPufm7hlFha57IRDdTTucwgAruLHU71595xKbadQ2rg1LoAgfS0RWzxO4XrA=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTRNYhYDMVfONkU2XL4_aCAwiC3UxTIESwdpRBQoNKRSNnrDN7-Y2ODdIzVIL9CQrbcFN_Hb2fFKCcUNUMippgGOVraF5uX4NsGA4LbVCd7TtR3RkBj4nlkHkdH31zBYvPufm7hlFha57IRDdTTucwgAruLHU71595xKbadQ2rg1LoAgfS0RWzxO4XrA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />Dec 30th:</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">White Pass eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62795077" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sand Ridge Trail eBird Checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62795092" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsbLXm2dwJp5pPMIvJMYulkMQShL9FzJT9EjA8QfEeyOoSO-u04FeceGE4bM0NRC0eEaDZtg-tN9xO0meRUtoV-Mg5zY9O_BpHGqG9Y3LjqVaGE9I2Tj5l03fH3A3lfsC9OQDLjC3QbUcMd2nrfXstwahCcUOcZ8IZ-kUghZ6QVN-PQ6pSo6qL4tsGkg=s1524" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1191" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsbLXm2dwJp5pPMIvJMYulkMQShL9FzJT9EjA8QfEeyOoSO-u04FeceGE4bM0NRC0eEaDZtg-tN9xO0meRUtoV-Mg5zY9O_BpHGqG9Y3LjqVaGE9I2Tj5l03fH3A3lfsC9OQDLjC3QbUcMd2nrfXstwahCcUOcZ8IZ-kUghZ6QVN-PQ6pSo6qL4tsGkg=w500-h640" title="Belted Kingfisher" width="500" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><br />Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA48.117038699999988 -122.76044724.3543710420900084 166.9270528 90 -52.4479472tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-90976174796778801192022-02-22T11:17:00.000-08:002022-02-22T11:17:05.149-08:00December 20, 2019 - Lewis County Christmas Bird Count<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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time of year, I enjoy participating in the Christmas Bird counts, as it helps
hone my birding skills, I get to participate in a great hobby with some
excellent people, and - every once in a while - get to find some good birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9SkxIbKyri8VSXvxYqwXCyYrTkKj7M_WdJ8ayvPqeikvb3CaBdqhIrQhlFUjQUs0PBY2j8EtcopIx5CbtFetGnr8MvOF3fMAt32JOgGELupcLLCBmknCQjgdf58zsHxIOJ6inN1fubi2McKuVSfb6Cr8hKvH0Ry8h03snQb5sJe9IZbY7hiwJ8GN-Rw=s1996" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1329" data-original-width="1996" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9SkxIbKyri8VSXvxYqwXCyYrTkKj7M_WdJ8ayvPqeikvb3CaBdqhIrQhlFUjQUs0PBY2j8EtcopIx5CbtFetGnr8MvOF3fMAt32JOgGELupcLLCBmknCQjgdf58zsHxIOJ6inN1fubi2McKuVSfb6Cr8hKvH0Ry8h03snQb5sJe9IZbY7hiwJ8GN-Rw=w640-h426" title="Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">All
CBCs take place between December 14 and January 5 inclusive.<span> </span>This year <a href="https://blackhills-audubon.org/" target="_blank">Black Hills Audubon</a> once again
sponsored a circle in Lewis County on Friday, Dec 20th.<span> </span>A CBC circle is 15 miles across and the
boundaries remain the same year after year.<span>
</span>Each circle is divided into sub-areas and teams are sent out to count as
many birds as are seen and heard.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVTGTlRNCINRfRNWMrxaCv1uCKQ_6KOmIlHojj5tp2tkYYj_XxFPWFgOW64fqMo7hizXjARVOTS-xE-LX1iHQcdHhHC3EW57gZqy9kfXg98EmDIyMYxmtMorwkHCuW-f7M9NbNriTO3Pei7hIPe4qJ0FLppHaJWAmd0oXWea1woip0NJ4lKsyuX_n8-g=s225" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVTGTlRNCINRfRNWMrxaCv1uCKQ_6KOmIlHojj5tp2tkYYj_XxFPWFgOW64fqMo7hizXjARVOTS-xE-LX1iHQcdHhHC3EW57gZqy9kfXg98EmDIyMYxmtMorwkHCuW-f7M9NbNriTO3Pei7hIPe4qJ0FLppHaJWAmd0oXWea1woip0NJ4lKsyuX_n8-g=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As a
16 year old, “young birder” <a href="https://birdbanter.podbean.com/e/the-bird-banter-podcast-episode-12-with-dalton-spencer/" target="_blank">Dalton Spencer</a>, organized and complied the numbers
for <a href="https://www.chronline.com/stories/christmas-bird-count-comes-to-lewis-county,12205" target="_blank">a new Christmas Bird Count</a> in Lewis County, WA. I
volunteered, once again, to assist with this - the third - Lewis County CBC, and was
pleased to again be partnered with Dalton himself, who is pursuing a degree in the
<a href="https://www.montana.edu/ecology/fwlprogram.html" target="_blank">Fish and Wildlife Management</a> program at <a href="https://www.montana.edu/" target="_blank">Montana State</a>.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5YretbrA-SMBR4L5NUKKLWor_aTkezGy545k2upVE-ha81bKKrz6Rg93BsI4m0W9OzIOn9NuPuEGmZbCAcLdIyup2w-wPqmfel_IvdHrFfkufXiTfCz5_Fi7W21HSUagdEncz9_zUWjQzLfe-K9wxY7L-cP8OG6E5H1WlitKmy_Feo8Khyr94XAzPGA=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1500" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5YretbrA-SMBR4L5NUKKLWor_aTkezGy545k2upVE-ha81bKKrz6Rg93BsI4m0W9OzIOn9NuPuEGmZbCAcLdIyup2w-wPqmfel_IvdHrFfkufXiTfCz5_Fi7W21HSUagdEncz9_zUWjQzLfe-K9wxY7L-cP8OG6E5H1WlitKmy_Feo8Khyr94XAzPGA=w640-h430" title="The 1933 Chehalis River flood in Lewis County" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Our
counting efforts this year were a bit truncated by the recent flooding in the
Chehalis River Basin.<span> </span>There have been calls
from local citizens to “do something” about the recent floods, including a push
to dam and dike the river.<span> </span>The <a href="https://www.chronline.com/stories/from-native-american-legends-to-2007-a-history-of-flooding-in-the-chehalis-river-basin,21216" target="_blank">river rises</a>, as it has done for thousands of years, and yet the County allows
structures to be erected on land that is inundated every few years.<span> </span>As a taxpayer, I don’t understand why the
public should have to bail out people who have chosen to build on a known flood
plain.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCfrdU1mw4jlopiIQQrjINYdTPCrSJlKp6zsZUKL7ni3qYI7QmlVz6XXVMkS52cLvZYAY-Vh8QpJkQnT3aJx2aMFscluHGMkKBgEFQ_c_qyW9QjJ8-nimtUHE8GOGKtZc89Y2poblfCr0oe92oHZn8fpxhDl8NZIczuvqxs9sWMLeIyjduM_HBWZU2TQ=s4930" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3246" data-original-width="4930" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCfrdU1mw4jlopiIQQrjINYdTPCrSJlKp6zsZUKL7ni3qYI7QmlVz6XXVMkS52cLvZYAY-Vh8QpJkQnT3aJx2aMFscluHGMkKBgEFQ_c_qyW9QjJ8-nimtUHE8GOGKtZc89Y2poblfCr0oe92oHZn8fpxhDl8NZIczuvqxs9sWMLeIyjduM_HBWZU2TQ=w640-h422" title="Centralia Steam Plant" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Last
year, we had access to the Centralia Coal Mine, which is being phased-out due
to economic and operational considerations.<span>
</span>This year, the mine was closed to our access, as Dalton’s grandfather
had to work to keep pumps going due to the heavy rains and flooding in the
Hanagan Valley.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-dqFQ1ENeQQuNVPuMirLuMCm-8zNH0t8EHvhGH0fychTTGGV1EsZTbkUNGEFGQ9U2TJQURRVo6rn_PU4vNJ7bvIDGcfPYlfFPwq5JKJaQgVbqEyJWgj2oimZo2LP-yjXkMuN-tBAklTCkvWS8tEmBbDXMOVcA9FCWDMJljXT2Dw58gki0seWJkM29tw=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-dqFQ1ENeQQuNVPuMirLuMCm-8zNH0t8EHvhGH0fychTTGGV1EsZTbkUNGEFGQ9U2TJQURRVo6rn_PU4vNJ7bvIDGcfPYlfFPwq5JKJaQgVbqEyJWgj2oimZo2LP-yjXkMuN-tBAklTCkvWS8tEmBbDXMOVcA9FCWDMJljXT2Dw58gki0seWJkM29tw=w640-h360" title="Flooding on China Creek - tributary to the Chehalis" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kept
from the “good” parts of the mine, we birded pretty intensively along the
County roads and neighborhoods.<span> </span>Keeping
out of the high water was a challenge, but we did find a few birds.<span> </span>I think the best of our day was when we
stopped to check out a homeowner’s bird feeder along the Bucoda highway.<span> </span>A larger “sparrow” chowing-down the seeds
turned out to be a Black-headed Grosbeak!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaFxeNmB_EVRKntbpfgqqZuk-ok6nhTtVJk-dPuazIU4zxGFZ7xJvEbpc0fj1hobbjj7EuJgeNQO6cJwpAn2h9MrhtXqfhsxlYTNSJ4DNFvrqLW5SlTN-Tq1o6ZpFvZl_2JRx4ar1hlfdl8dm1r05JCrvfcgPACptJE1KR2RrX4D51ExTbFzwpThvJ0w=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaFxeNmB_EVRKntbpfgqqZuk-ok6nhTtVJk-dPuazIU4zxGFZ7xJvEbpc0fj1hobbjj7EuJgeNQO6cJwpAn2h9MrhtXqfhsxlYTNSJ4DNFvrqLW5SlTN-Tq1o6ZpFvZl_2JRx4ar1hlfdl8dm1r05JCrvfcgPACptJE1KR2RrX4D51ExTbFzwpThvJ0w=w640-h426" title="What's that at the feeder!!?!" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The
bulk of this species is wintering in Mexico in late December, but there are
always a few "stragglers" that winter to the north.<span> </span>We were very pleased to tally the bird on the
Count.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKyRZ5jx1YQjfX6pRDSVbCabhw3P8t4sJT1U3NeLhLmZeCRZXdml12lyjXkY3bfsJY2S7HFlDzgJOoJCXZ9oZXGHPC5E0Ue9-RxLY32xT6GR-Y7hjIUVHRE8f9ZwOnPQiBmmVju36ceTqQUQVN3mnd25V-XboX_7w1T0INVE96hZyK3vJZ-4FUuAOnWg=s723" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="723" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKyRZ5jx1YQjfX6pRDSVbCabhw3P8t4sJT1U3NeLhLmZeCRZXdml12lyjXkY3bfsJY2S7HFlDzgJOoJCXZ9oZXGHPC5E0Ue9-RxLY32xT6GR-Y7hjIUVHRE8f9ZwOnPQiBmmVju36ceTqQUQVN3mnd25V-XboX_7w1T0INVE96hZyK3vJZ-4FUuAOnWg=w640-h396" title="Really poor photo of the Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dalton
sent the following to <a href="http://www.scn.org/tweeters/" target="_blank">Tweeters</a>:<span> </span>“… 26
intrepid birders swam through the floodwaters of Lewis County to help count the
few birds that were not also swimming alongside us. This marked the 3rd ever
Lewis County CBC and it definitely will go down as one of the most memorable
for those involved.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQMd77qaM96dB8rR-UUrhUKIJNMKt8BbF0q13dg2R5rb2C1-PyBVAreYfJDEV12oMC96QT3wMd2om_VmU06QKoO62voqn-OvJlvJXMi3_eHmmQWi21WnUm7S87QMBMeYEOJeAz4PoHmgTZNCSwWUG6z2iOfQGSqZ2KkgCGWVMWWGDtfUXb0vXgjl8OFA=s2556" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1679" data-original-width="2556" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQMd77qaM96dB8rR-UUrhUKIJNMKt8BbF0q13dg2R5rb2C1-PyBVAreYfJDEV12oMC96QT3wMd2om_VmU06QKoO62voqn-OvJlvJXMi3_eHmmQWi21WnUm7S87QMBMeYEOJeAz4PoHmgTZNCSwWUG6z2iOfQGSqZ2KkgCGWVMWWGDtfUXb0vXgjl8OFA=w640-h420" title="Immature Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“We
tallied a total of 92 species on count day and a total of 11 other species for
count week. Given the weather conditions, lower numbers were to be expected.
This year 16,385 individual birds were count as opposed to last year's 20,087. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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included a Black Headed Grosbeak coming to a feeder near Bucoda, a Sandhill
Crane seen off Big Hanaford Rd, and a Short-Eared Owl seen from Pleasant
Valley. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMMQ4ggRs1gQC45UzJQaZjE22A54Oxm7ZEQv0bRCtiDVQYnaGvmrb26LAbv0lyXQqtonMyY3MPHosgmPvcg6OEusTZRl6q2-qV0zzrUqWomZIjeHnvgR5Z03nWWt4GGc_NoPXEpTI7AQC1XcJqjrcN0wAumNeH5EsehfHRB5iAvsZSnuyh4mzaICPW6w=s2784" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1711" data-original-width="2784" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMMQ4ggRs1gQC45UzJQaZjE22A54Oxm7ZEQv0bRCtiDVQYnaGvmrb26LAbv0lyXQqtonMyY3MPHosgmPvcg6OEusTZRl6q2-qV0zzrUqWomZIjeHnvgR5Z03nWWt4GGc_NoPXEpTI7AQC1XcJqjrcN0wAumNeH5EsehfHRB5iAvsZSnuyh4mzaICPW6w=w640-h394" title="Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis)" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“We
had a total of 8 new species for count too. Without including the previously
mentioned species we also found California Quail, Ruffed Grouse, Barn Owl,
Townsend's Warbler, and Evening Grosbeak.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> <br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO5ZR_qxIVMrPRIQaBb0H_xrqovPQ2UiNVRuWWrUriZ0mG0PIL7eMDmFFJhuFT7XUisfP8LTSNrss_7BI6GrC4cYjB-iIPPBI_Vlf1iFKj9abJ49koQSWe2X1kTFu9-d169CZ1gbI90vMImUylSpCF5NWtMsvmhSWesahQVWRElAGL5a0bgUV0SmRR7g=s1385" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1385" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO5ZR_qxIVMrPRIQaBb0H_xrqovPQ2UiNVRuWWrUriZ0mG0PIL7eMDmFFJhuFT7XUisfP8LTSNrss_7BI6GrC4cYjB-iIPPBI_Vlf1iFKj9abJ49koQSWe2X1kTFu9-d169CZ1gbI90vMImUylSpCF5NWtMsvmhSWesahQVWRElAGL5a0bgUV0SmRR7g=w640-h450" title="Nobody loves Starlings . . . Sturnus vulgaris" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“The European
Starling was once again the most commonly detected species with 3,142
individuals counted. Northern Pintail (1,865) and Green-Winged Teal (1,329)
came in second and third respectively. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw2_813ZIOZuCekWnTt8WHcVmDc2jX4KtJj13LthsKLC3DdW5q4gUU2g7mqfpTkKtErUD2tYnKCk7-FSCdDigT-Hw9Y4LCk3mEhYYS0MxjSXJJayjdYaeYDIYiOWS1ALKvNC4vYRRzUrqW2MaW6P_hfvOUQDO9AOCwud4fWfyT2DBlO-HqMgQQDDENNA=s767" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="767" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw2_813ZIOZuCekWnTt8WHcVmDc2jX4KtJj13LthsKLC3DdW5q4gUU2g7mqfpTkKtErUD2tYnKCk7-FSCdDigT-Hw9Y4LCk3mEhYYS0MxjSXJJayjdYaeYDIYiOWS1ALKvNC4vYRRzUrqW2MaW6P_hfvOUQDO9AOCwud4fWfyT2DBlO-HqMgQQDDENNA=w640-h356" title="Trumpeter Swans" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“The
most notable increases amongst the species detected were Trumpeter Swan an
increase of almost 1600%. Cedar Waxwing, Green-winged Teal, Wilson's Snipe,
Bushtit, and American Pipit were amongst those with the largest increases from
last year. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“Hopefully
next year the weather is better and the birds are more easily found.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtMbX6RwcxECquAirLYSePH4bxFuWGQNhhDU3eyJETxJwnjilVnOEKMYVFzCH4TF-9DKP1qcdwTX0Vke6d-6WLIoJWa-1DF9dEgf1Jb6r2w-s2dmK7koHAswEwPj4mL3aA_TtXEPWhM1ZNBRmEWwAXBBO8r9z2oi1BvDvbHfY7HzQ2hzk37-sbVh2H0A=s288" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="288" height="471" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtMbX6RwcxECquAirLYSePH4bxFuWGQNhhDU3eyJETxJwnjilVnOEKMYVFzCH4TF-9DKP1qcdwTX0Vke6d-6WLIoJWa-1DF9dEgf1Jb6r2w-s2dmK7koHAswEwPj4mL3aA_TtXEPWhM1ZNBRmEWwAXBBO8r9z2oi1BvDvbHfY7HzQ2hzk37-sbVh2H0A=w640-h471" title="Countdown Supper" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The
end of the day is celebrated with a dinner get-together where participants
share their sightings and stories, warm beverages and dinner.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There
is no limit to how many CBCs one can join so please consider helping out with one
next Winter.<span> </span>There is room for beginning
and experienced birders and everyone in between.<span> </span>Remember - birding in December is ‘way better
than being at the mall in December!!!!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8VXoJZkzUQ5jbOC0xbP7m3lmIL727vTfFo2LHeSm4lvm6O1HE5NJMUYuOpXxKACB30m7NAffLWsdG2r_4QiOgUJXlC5hI37-E4goPI62NFDEf1VdD1CybdlvClAA902-IO3BS7kdhPqS05BIVHOKhf1VcSMHmb_mmojHh6IHK4WkpaHlSf5od9ZsVpg=s3116" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="3116" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8VXoJZkzUQ5jbOC0xbP7m3lmIL727vTfFo2LHeSm4lvm6O1HE5NJMUYuOpXxKACB30m7NAffLWsdG2r_4QiOgUJXlC5hI37-E4goPI62NFDEf1VdD1CybdlvClAA902-IO3BS7kdhPqS05BIVHOKhf1VcSMHmb_mmojHh6IHK4WkpaHlSf5od9ZsVpg=w640-h360" title="How high's the water, Mamma? A bit of flooding in the Hanaford Valley..." width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p> </p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Centralia, WA, USA46.7162136 -122.954297218.405979763821158 -158.11054719999998 75.026447436178842 -87.7980472tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-57736409307002205972022-02-13T11:31:00.000-08:002022-02-13T11:31:18.550-08:00December 18-19, 2019 - Local Birding at Nisqually and JBLM Eagles Pride<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikjx9hWPuuLzFXzvyOU-nRcSsH0lNJG_X3sddt1vg7-rz1KwgzOkksmj1o7gxSLHAS6L_zMoxL5Sille2GMJIUg4vcFgvGdREMA2d3ONaP1qs7TML1BeJcYmET_6sIAcuVe8yfCutSxvz_cI511U4Vk-gOX17mWqF1aKXAk-k0zgiMLeypQZBK3gmywg=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikjx9hWPuuLzFXzvyOU-nRcSsH0lNJG_X3sddt1vg7-rz1KwgzOkksmj1o7gxSLHAS6L_zMoxL5Sille2GMJIUg4vcFgvGdREMA2d3ONaP1qs7TML1BeJcYmET_6sIAcuVe8yfCutSxvz_cI511U4Vk-gOX17mWqF1aKXAk-k0zgiMLeypQZBK3gmywg=w640-h426" title="Leaves and mushrooms on a winter's day" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With my Peregrination year winding
down, (and yes, I know that I’m over 2 years behind with my “Blog”), and not
having plans to do any major trips, I don’t have expectations of tallying any
more “Lifers” or “Year Birds” before New Year’s.<span> </span>If I was shooting for a “Big Year”, I would
be jetting all over the country, desperately trying to add just one more bird
to the list.<span> </span>There is a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62590152" target="_blank">Red-footed Booby</a>
and a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61920534" target="_blank">Garganey </a>in California, a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62186733" target="_blank">La Sagra’s Flycatcher</a> in the Florida Everglades, an <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61923978" target="_blank">Antillean Palm-Swift</a> in the Florida Keys, and a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61906949" target="_blank">Fork-tailed Flycatcher</a>
in Texas.<span> </span>All would be great birds and
add to my year’s species list.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbUIIPESoMhW730pLClC4I8QNBmirs_jf35R0CxtmXnLdLrRrWuC9M9A1Udz2GC79Go7rVna4pyb7zgt8W0YaGHxh2gh-D5do9v85uNMKNTzR6TTDL-f_Eq8YkIYADEjXzbOt_msgjkgrZ1dioXO8NW7_e5YvkMWiaNLBbZgg4FtvZIUt808bB8zwWmA=s2681" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1643" data-original-width="2681" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbUIIPESoMhW730pLClC4I8QNBmirs_jf35R0CxtmXnLdLrRrWuC9M9A1Udz2GC79Go7rVna4pyb7zgt8W0YaGHxh2gh-D5do9v85uNMKNTzR6TTDL-f_Eq8YkIYADEjXzbOt_msgjkgrZ1dioXO8NW7_e5YvkMWiaNLBbZgg4FtvZIUt808bB8zwWmA=w640-h392" title="Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla): A Local Bird" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, I’ve done well on my initial goal
of seeing “at least 75” new-to-me species this year.<span> </span>And, I’m in contention for being among the
top-ten birders in North America for the number of species seen this year.<span> </span>Anything new here in south Puget Sound will
be “gravy”.<span> </span>The local Christmas Bird
Counts found some “good” birds, including a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62356500" target="_blank">King Eider </a>in Bellingham, both
<a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62384576" target="_blank">Slaty-backed and Lesser Black-backed Gulls</a> in Walla Walla, Jen DeSelle’s find
of an <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62348685" target="_blank">Eastern Phoebe</a> in Olympia!<span> </span>But,
these are species I’d seen elsewhere over the year, so I’m not “chasing” them.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPJvi5S9lwS_MBf87mhngScIbLy5NmxiwrrdgxIZVjjDAlFGBTGQXFOhdU4t_UM-ZE16DkV4tFPfPt4T0xNfWPYDNaV1kh1TmS1a0HK4mOxynu1GqQHm-yD-lfiNY0ogq29jjtGDuQXA4Qvd0mqy3azTVmn3ThxYaz8kmLyuChFAPWmJ8a7FfVhHX0Q=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPJvi5S9lwS_MBf87mhngScIbLy5NmxiwrrdgxIZVjjDAlFGBTGQXFOhdU4t_UM-ZE16DkV4tFPfPt4T0xNfWPYDNaV1kh1TmS1a0HK4mOxynu1GqQHm-yD-lfiNY0ogq29jjtGDuQXA4Qvd0mqy3azTVmn3ThxYaz8kmLyuChFAPWmJ8a7FfVhHX0Q=w640-h426" title="Shep, Laurel, and Richard at Nisqually Refuge" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With that in mind, on the morning of
the 18th, I went out to Nisqually Refuge with the “Wednesday Bird Walk” group.<span> </span>We always hope to find a “good bird” on the
walk, and we have been graced this season with a wintering Red-shouldered Hawk.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAVBLImZBR4KafHTsV6-zFWeDaPx-Pg8WUPT-cUbciZvXtvrRr2AO0XpjvgKKb1qZFT9pN80TgYIMqCwQ958iB23IktTbWHZXEUJ_Ibc8YT0xP_Xt1aRugypAPR0olMCfERsOp6lkujNemNEz7W4k0exeapH53k4MphtIDBHi7fRbe3LbiRHeLEX61Bg=s3485" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2511" data-original-width="3485" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAVBLImZBR4KafHTsV6-zFWeDaPx-Pg8WUPT-cUbciZvXtvrRr2AO0XpjvgKKb1qZFT9pN80TgYIMqCwQ958iB23IktTbWHZXEUJ_Ibc8YT0xP_Xt1aRugypAPR0olMCfERsOp6lkujNemNEz7W4k0exeapH53k4MphtIDBHi7fRbe3LbiRHeLEX61Bg=w640-h462" title="The "western" Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus elegans)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This species was quite rare in
Washington 40 years ago, but the species has been expanding north from its
stronghold in California and the <a href="https://wos.org/records/" target="_blank">Washington Bird Records Committee</a> removed them
from their list of Review Species in 2008.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhanwl7aB67fHrfoT42cDjuMwCZAPFWA8VJXJ27QtqPDsts4lbD_pHVKXaMyYwZvym4Mt6Zs6rOPFjVM-q6eLHA7julMCkLXXhA2c58NhEV2DGW-JnAiQXQqEMn5Da5U_o-QemoSy_VWdjTdiTDsm6tJ1LXwKY8oLNkrUGiF-l6d757J1_l1SdxSUyy1g=s4683" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4683" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhanwl7aB67fHrfoT42cDjuMwCZAPFWA8VJXJ27QtqPDsts4lbD_pHVKXaMyYwZvym4Mt6Zs6rOPFjVM-q6eLHA7julMCkLXXhA2c58NhEV2DGW-JnAiQXQqEMn5Da5U_o-QemoSy_VWdjTdiTDsm6tJ1LXwKY8oLNkrUGiF-l6d757J1_l1SdxSUyy1g=w640-h410" title="Tahoma - "The Mountain" - from the estuary boardwalk" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a pleasant December day for us,
in that it was fairly calm and not raining.<span>
</span>One enjoys the little things in the Pacific Northwest winters, like
being dry.<span> </span>And good friends.<span> </span>And good birds. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCldiEnrQYTWbtXiwJfLt_sIe28jzyeq9_Gi66MiKUzKywAy-7o5_-EfeILzMmjppYtki-vTPasRR3bjdiatrFgPGfzXjN8YAo2OdkXrK0mmhIHyAOllrfA7HFHM2rHKFZKimp0e7Xhe_Bar6HtfN8JRRxVdXorVQV-bH06az9HlQnWjPgCrUyeCB1Hw=s1283" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1283" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCldiEnrQYTWbtXiwJfLt_sIe28jzyeq9_Gi66MiKUzKywAy-7o5_-EfeILzMmjppYtki-vTPasRR3bjdiatrFgPGfzXjN8YAo2OdkXrK0mmhIHyAOllrfA7HFHM2rHKFZKimp0e7Xhe_Bar6HtfN8JRRxVdXorVQV-bH06az9HlQnWjPgCrUyeCB1Hw=w640-h444" title="Immature White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelli))" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We took our usual spin around the old
orchard and out past the Twin Barns to the north dike and estuary to catch the
11 a.m. high tide, which allows the ‘deep water’ birds to come closer to where
the birders can see them.<span> </span>On the way
out, we came across a single White-crowned Sparrow which, from its
‘straw-colored’ bill, we presumed to be of the Gambel’s subspecies.<span> </span>The Puget Sound subspecies has a more-yellow
bill.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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we were able to sort through the myriad of gulls.<span> </span>The most common “large, pink-footed gull” in
the area is the hybrid “Olympic” Gull which is a crossbreed Glaucous-winged and
Western Gull combination. <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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birders to get good comparisons of species that are somewhat similar.<span> </span>The Ring-billed Gull on the left, and the Mew
Gull on the right are both small <i>Larus</i> species.<span> </span>The Ring-bill has a more robust bill - with a
black ‘ring’ behind the tip - and is a little larger than the Mew Gull, which
has a more delicate bill.<span> </span>This bird’s
bill is slightly ‘smudged’, but doesn’t have a distinct black band.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKO7i3JzQosbs15K3eA43jNsGab6d3OhnP2KLQsBqyltpIvA3BY9Mmpc2iZejgOiqjiRc9q6L3ZZkpX-sXRPGD3ig00B4s94u59Tx9xJcu6PdO3YxZ7R6_ZHqHXqBgbcbjw20Uljjym69I4l4S8AcMVK66QzuYS5Zt07gf5o7yuQpe5S8hzcmiQNed0g=s2077" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="2077" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKO7i3JzQosbs15K3eA43jNsGab6d3OhnP2KLQsBqyltpIvA3BY9Mmpc2iZejgOiqjiRc9q6L3ZZkpX-sXRPGD3ig00B4s94u59Tx9xJcu6PdO3YxZ7R6_ZHqHXqBgbcbjw20Uljjym69I4l4S8AcMVK66QzuYS5Zt07gf5o7yuQpe5S8hzcmiQNed0g=w640-h404" title="Yup, the American Wigeon is not a gull . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of these is not a sea gull . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOqC6dflqGo_loPCxPl3x9P7JCRb9U3F_bATaTlBPtlyRthZChIrPMeVaroa4ZignEpVAJYod575EKxbKetzFXL9YBjtGdve-Kqn_nbwyzIt4ME3yQwWrmL1ulOl7j4S2AjCDYvIbrxQgqzd9gwiJYC3d4cvVO-oiDUhQ8jf0zyUayTu-ot54Ji5-Rmg=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOqC6dflqGo_loPCxPl3x9P7JCRb9U3F_bATaTlBPtlyRthZChIrPMeVaroa4ZignEpVAJYod575EKxbKetzFXL9YBjtGdve-Kqn_nbwyzIt4ME3yQwWrmL1ulOl7j4S2AjCDYvIbrxQgqzd9gwiJYC3d4cvVO-oiDUhQ8jf0zyUayTu-ot54Ji5-Rmg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we went out onto the estuary boardwalk,
we had good views of a Great Blue Heron, who had a great view of the Birders.<span> </span>The Nisqually intertidal zone provides
absolutely great foraging habitat for herons, especially in the restored
estuary area.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhalVGaxBO-mlukEjUQ7SVaEKTNMae7GM0DFIe9_Za8bq4k8Odte5JQtVusDtMmf5WsZhaMQa3VLTRaN0WkiKaMpMW0Y41F48En5C1vkr8maR2phOqpUun5GHhTfM1UrU6NQZIyGweubK0_cJ32SDY6cTLZMI5WAcke2sXTidwFjSAyXZo9qzM3M2e3-w=s2369" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="2369" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhalVGaxBO-mlukEjUQ7SVaEKTNMae7GM0DFIe9_Za8bq4k8Odte5JQtVusDtMmf5WsZhaMQa3VLTRaN0WkiKaMpMW0Y41F48En5C1vkr8maR2phOqpUun5GHhTfM1UrU6NQZIyGweubK0_cJ32SDY6cTLZMI5WAcke2sXTidwFjSAyXZo9qzM3M2e3-w=w640-h392" title="Shorebird on the Shore" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the +15-foot high water, we saw a
Spotted Sandpiper on ‘our’ side of the McAllister Creek estuary.<span> </span>We mostly see them on the west side of the
channel, so it’s nice to see them here, closer than 1/8 of a mile away.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhteofRHnbBIukiHGXfk8SC1eXwl3zBiHpGfzLvomK8Po4igJCAKMgUHlVIDYtVcNYT9JkzXJkdbD1kHMtM49ywl_NpgMd9tA05Q199_3-hItKHIVxhnrKc5Sx_5gMqDloeA5Ic99RYde_265zU0bmIbAjXzxKTl3fhC-P7lYfW5Rk7C4MwseI1PShOHA=s4965" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3309" data-original-width="4965" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhteofRHnbBIukiHGXfk8SC1eXwl3zBiHpGfzLvomK8Po4igJCAKMgUHlVIDYtVcNYT9JkzXJkdbD1kHMtM49ywl_NpgMd9tA05Q199_3-hItKHIVxhnrKc5Sx_5gMqDloeA5Ic99RYde_265zU0bmIbAjXzxKTl3fhC-P7lYfW5Rk7C4MwseI1PShOHA=w640-h426" title="Observation decks provide some respite from the usual rainy weather" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Refuge closes the last 700 feet of
the estuary boardwalk during the State waterfowl hunting season, which runs
into late January.<span> </span>Some of the visitors
question the reason for this, but it’s merely a matter of safety.<span> </span>The Refuge built the boardwalk clear out to
the boundary of the Federal land with that of the State Wildlife Area.<span> </span>The State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife allows
duck hunting on their property, so it makes sense to separate the user groups;
no one wants to have steel bird shot raining down on them from a nearby hunter
shooting at a wigeon.<span> </span>And, it’s only for
a few months.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCs1iP_xj3slM5wIkZjnyzb5ghERZ3JMmNKvifFpuEsMoyFKMEkVGJfMc-r1Q2OSqaMT7poGTZHU2Kfd8vUElpGvY014JyCG0PbQvF4AhPXUj8OsDaW5TLUxVW7_2Hh9jRT6ZOxPxUxMYqxXkrABVlMiPESrHhlgbPSjIHkKPnRRcksNboTH8cKUxu5g=s1726" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1726" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCs1iP_xj3slM5wIkZjnyzb5ghERZ3JMmNKvifFpuEsMoyFKMEkVGJfMc-r1Q2OSqaMT7poGTZHU2Kfd8vUElpGvY014JyCG0PbQvF4AhPXUj8OsDaW5TLUxVW7_2Hh9jRT6ZOxPxUxMYqxXkrABVlMiPESrHhlgbPSjIHkKPnRRcksNboTH8cKUxu5g=w640-h422" title="Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In all, we saw 73 species of birds, as
well as several native and non-native mammals.<span>
</span>The group meets at 8 a.m. every Wednesday at the Visitors’ Center of the
Refuge, and welcomes birders of all and any expertise to join them.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_pyQTdti9Irfk_bog94G4jFwzW8DJSxqDmVKLZ3-ClBzK1zT5qMX8D38FlmQn8_6KEXAeQ4ogdBU1IYxpDUXb3hDty7kTfhKuURQqDfxRjFjH6JPhYby2YeTUIlXQj5oVjSGkZb32LhintkK3YkF5xdZxRMqPESR0LpqJh8z1WR-XbQuxT4X3Wpa1YA=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_pyQTdti9Irfk_bog94G4jFwzW8DJSxqDmVKLZ3-ClBzK1zT5qMX8D38FlmQn8_6KEXAeQ4ogdBU1IYxpDUXb3hDty7kTfhKuURQqDfxRjFjH6JPhYby2YeTUIlXQj5oVjSGkZb32LhintkK3YkF5xdZxRMqPESR0LpqJh8z1WR-XbQuxT4X3Wpa1YA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Thursday, I ran out to the <span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="Eagles Pride https://jblm.armymwr.com/programs/eagles-pride-golf-course" target="_blank">Eagles Pride Golf Course</a> on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where biologist David Wienecke
and Denis DeSilvis host a bird walk on the Third Thursday of every month. This group meets at 8 a.m. at the Driving Range Tee, and walks a <span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">3¼
mile </span>route through the fir and maple woods and along the various courses. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtqMr6ZrMHIT1e-xAl-iGvgbKbSA1U3r0e2f0dKchPWvoZ3k2D5Dzm40kaggf7SVBtJIN0jg53zNRam_cPUwtj2rWc8cm8HL3_LukPUB7G_r3a2THmbSO3jj-4IAZXd6VXCMjqoYkeKLKW3iHeHFFmJZpiEfsG8pf9VqguZhfkLEGRrvFBgtRL-V6Bg=s2664" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1525" data-original-width="2664" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtqMr6ZrMHIT1e-xAl-iGvgbKbSA1U3r0e2f0dKchPWvoZ3k2D5Dzm40kaggf7SVBtJIN0jg53zNRam_cPUwtj2rWc8cm8HL3_LukPUB7G_r3a2THmbSO3jj-4IAZXd6VXCMjqoYkeKLKW3iHeHFFmJZpiEfsG8pf9VqguZhfkLEGRrvFBgtRL-V6Bg=w640-h366" title="Townsend's warbler ( Setophaga townsendi)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, we saw 32 species; the most
unusual for this walk was a nice female Townsend’s Warbler, which shouldn’t be
uncommon here in the winter, but we rarely see one on this walk.<span> </span>One would think with all of the coniferous
habitat on the course, we would see them more regularly.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYC7yJnPrW5R6cbWNPA8petixp4ki-q7Xm6D2VH3dJvkDFP_QPV3v0wxuGRLqpD3bNhbkTxATvDqqqDplsDkVweFk3HzSo2VQP0nOOmmnpQeuVu-1oq3-T69ujvAxBdh74bMVQhf6SjGL2VnIWzAFojlhIeTga7CW2qAoPjyHC-1z_aE1x_vdsER_2fQ=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYC7yJnPrW5R6cbWNPA8petixp4ki-q7Xm6D2VH3dJvkDFP_QPV3v0wxuGRLqpD3bNhbkTxATvDqqqDplsDkVweFk3HzSo2VQP0nOOmmnpQeuVu-1oq3-T69ujvAxBdh74bMVQhf6SjGL2VnIWzAFojlhIeTga7CW2qAoPjyHC-1z_aE1x_vdsER_2fQ=w640-h426" title="Thatch Ant Mound" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">One natural history item that always
catches one’s attention here in the western Washington woods is the nest of the
western thatch ant (<i>Formica obscuripes</i>).<span>
</span>In spite of the propaganda put out by the “Pest Control” businesses who
will happily take your money to spray poison on them, these ants are beneficial
to your woods or your residential yard.<span>
</span>These black-and-red ants maintain aphid colonies so as to harvest the
aphid’s “honeydew”, but also prey on all sorts of other detrimental
insects.<span> </span>This ant mound has a hole in
its side, caused by a Northern Flicker excavating for its own lunch of ant eggs
and pupae.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBlQgwXNCSeQOkEsgepfHQDdPqq3X-br-Q94otjvit2nQuefDrHtgAgfVLQKh0c90O2vYGns2GJnH8gr7Se_5b3zB6biUjWg89sOCWD5lY7-P_fL0lfi6Pc9cSdP896ydbZ0Tuq0-lOgKJoT-aOAnUR51uUoUCG4SiuXUoD4tE1RfRWjwsUV6wIr0p_A=s2013" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1369" data-original-width="2013" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBlQgwXNCSeQOkEsgepfHQDdPqq3X-br-Q94otjvit2nQuefDrHtgAgfVLQKh0c90O2vYGns2GJnH8gr7Se_5b3zB6biUjWg89sOCWD5lY7-P_fL0lfi6Pc9cSdP896ydbZ0Tuq0-lOgKJoT-aOAnUR51uUoUCG4SiuXUoD4tE1RfRWjwsUV6wIr0p_A=w640-h436" title="Red-shafted Flicker" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once again, we lucked out with the
weather today: The forecast was for lots of rain, but none of it really started
until about 20 minutes after we finished the walk.<span> </span>The birds were a bit quiet at the beginning
of the walk, but we ended up seeing 31 species.<span>
</span>The highlight of the walk was the group of eight Northern Flickers and the
Townsend’s Warbler in the willows.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Back in the old days, so the story
goes, hunters engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas "Side
Hunt."<span> </span>They would choose sides and
go afield with their guns, and whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered
and furred quarry won.</span></span></span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfOv6XLScwGsk_BoV6rabhelYQmuSs_T7lNRUi2MEcrZLdMeCycPb49Mq-NUXuAMBmwkC5WOBUKgZgXYErjDrbRu7oG1hUyhWisdAhvaDN5FKPA24DSL9Oy5uHFCBjTdUFPWkp7BDxWcsUX-uU9_COSJCtNXxIJp70yx7wzCdOlUHjzzs7ooCuUFc2uA=s1386" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1386" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfOv6XLScwGsk_BoV6rabhelYQmuSs_T7lNRUi2MEcrZLdMeCycPb49Mq-NUXuAMBmwkC5WOBUKgZgXYErjDrbRu7oG1hUyhWisdAhvaDN5FKPA24DSL9Oy5uHFCBjTdUFPWkp7BDxWcsUX-uU9_COSJCtNXxIJp70yx7wzCdOlUHjzzs7ooCuUFc2uA=w640-h414" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This, of course, was in the days prior
to modern game management.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBlCBDcKkrmrERIunv2UPqePJlJ5akAhOo8NdXBgFuWl-almhQOWg8sHrZpiO6NWSfAbmnyrXKxvkZrv9Hec_ANn-BEsaXIBWKc-l5SOFevSb-xZtdL8JmDgASvimxyi1EPtihx99D4nrqc3XEw-FaS2qQUX6Yeoo1Tq3Svk1SwlGPCNOgujd078rJjg=s1181" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1181" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBlCBDcKkrmrERIunv2UPqePJlJ5akAhOo8NdXBgFuWl-almhQOWg8sHrZpiO6NWSfAbmnyrXKxvkZrv9Hec_ANn-BEsaXIBWKc-l5SOFevSb-xZtdL8JmDgASvimxyi1EPtihx99D4nrqc3XEw-FaS2qQUX6Yeoo1Tq3Svk1SwlGPCNOgujd078rJjg=w640-h456" title="Chris Hays Photo - Pteranodon Hunt https://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_harry/5120294963/" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Wildlife conservation was in its
beginning stages in that era, and many observers and scientists were becoming
concerned about declining bird populations. <span> </span>Beginning on Christmas Day 1900, ornithologist
Frank M. Chapman, an early officer in the newly-formed Audubon Society,
proposed a new holiday tradition of a "Christmas Bird Census" that
would count birds during the holidays rather than hunt them.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDctAa8PH3vUxc7Zxqkj-HJZdIl0cRUGbBCqombA_fc-WO6AvccjP_72RcaGUV-e6cbtPmRgj-h2MQDB6GbPv9ZSFUc_qAjilsPHWQPUh1C5i8JF0ZeH0_ENSrzZ92Y1KpoU-xuw5jcF8_hPkLwFJ5KNU8kUdUeqEUSazFMt60DmYUhNnZYY2w5hZmMA=s624" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="624" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDctAa8PH3vUxc7Zxqkj-HJZdIl0cRUGbBCqombA_fc-WO6AvccjP_72RcaGUV-e6cbtPmRgj-h2MQDB6GbPv9ZSFUc_qAjilsPHWQPUh1C5i8JF0ZeH0_ENSrzZ92Y1KpoU-xuw5jcF8_hPkLwFJ5KNU8kUdUeqEUSazFMt60DmYUhNnZYY2w5hZmMA=w640-h440" title="CBC - 1900 Birding photo from https://environmentfortheamericas.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/cbc_blog-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Thanks to that inspiration and the
enthusiasm of 27 dedicated birders, 25 Christmas Bird Counts were held that day,
in locations from Toronto, Ontario to Pacific Grove, California. Those original
27 Christmas Bird Counters tallied around 90 species on all the counts
combined.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-UUGgIQyJEefMRpVYLBQSNbPLlcGVfNsGtyG-WQIpYsd4tB6n5OD3_e6XKOROaFCmf8GXtj0WVCZTeki0RBiS2FM8RGhvCxoa5mKZdyUWWJDv2-wMUGoS_R1j8RrwITFtnDFXqcoZjncg8Beecv9M_pW32pNNKTPOUiHif7iU6U2qz7oMnEvwySToZQ=s5446" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3372" data-original-width="5446" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-UUGgIQyJEefMRpVYLBQSNbPLlcGVfNsGtyG-WQIpYsd4tB6n5OD3_e6XKOROaFCmf8GXtj0WVCZTeki0RBiS2FM8RGhvCxoa5mKZdyUWWJDv2-wMUGoS_R1j8RrwITFtnDFXqcoZjncg8Beecv9M_pW32pNNKTPOUiHif7iU6U2qz7oMnEvwySToZQ=w640-h396" title="Olympia birders" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This year, nearly 2,500 CBCs were conducted, with nearly 75,000 participants. All Christmas Bird Counts take place
between December 14 and January 5 inclusive.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6mBUAeeaY05e8QtLNCV3i48UioFShxnhujQdD5m-4BmoGXjheKFcdJRBCnAoOh3q1uPOdKbw7bSR2z3VpdJdxleRvQxnRxAM6Joh32AADnXF_y-1dGDkLTXX0niRN1mghdoKpXQ2MtWI-9-4NyfhFNf-jBE6556HCCvjbTxFWsQKdsOYFRMXaIOh8JQ=s2979" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="2979" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6mBUAeeaY05e8QtLNCV3i48UioFShxnhujQdD5m-4BmoGXjheKFcdJRBCnAoOh3q1uPOdKbw7bSR2z3VpdJdxleRvQxnRxAM6Joh32AADnXF_y-1dGDkLTXX0niRN1mghdoKpXQ2MtWI-9-4NyfhFNf-jBE6556HCCvjbTxFWsQKdsOYFRMXaIOh8JQ=w640-h328" title="Mary Ann Creek photo In many parts of the country in late December, the CBC is cold and few birds are around." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A CBC circle is 15 miles across and the
boundaries remain the same year after year.<span>
</span>Each circle is divided into sub-areas and teams are sent out to count as
many birds as are seen and heard.<span> </span>Teams
can cover this area on foot, by car, and even by boat.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMoXlKYv6nq_3MJ0abTuye7bfSJr5pz3UzCuD3c19TdKCm4slmsaXACdUYHpx5fd8Op5FTrmb7-lP6-BT6a4DAV6c7P12820kFwPFtY2N7vcizSoaArE6rphkfLXu3ShfO6tPHrL96oq-Obnx1fAQhzqcZ8xWQtcmz0n12z-x_vQ8qks27N8Vhpgmslg=s4801" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3057" data-original-width="4801" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMoXlKYv6nq_3MJ0abTuye7bfSJr5pz3UzCuD3c19TdKCm4slmsaXACdUYHpx5fd8Op5FTrmb7-lP6-BT6a4DAV6c7P12820kFwPFtY2N7vcizSoaArE6rphkfLXu3ShfO6tPHrL96oq-Obnx1fAQhzqcZ8xWQtcmz0n12z-x_vQ8qks27N8Vhpgmslg=w640-h408" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This year, <a href="https://blackhills-audubon.org/" target="_blank">Black Hills Audubon</a> once
again sponsored a circle in Olympia on the first Sunday of the Count
period.<span> </span>I volunteered/was assigned as
leader in Area 8, which includes mostly suburbs and rural west Olympia.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnfC2DpTyXPJHsgLw6QZNW0Wvwp80pIHym9n9X65mhWK7GyLW2zlCG9E5phD7kHlkVEjETM9AwBxX4WVJQusGRbun1bbEZ4pLTCsc49Fvd2rnRsZCJuOBBKWkCRKGZmzO6hGMSav1c67HXgql8kIsNeFhkzZLUGM2FA2b9PebYyCRfDMAT2izo0HF2xA=s4536" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2930" data-original-width="4536" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnfC2DpTyXPJHsgLw6QZNW0Wvwp80pIHym9n9X65mhWK7GyLW2zlCG9E5phD7kHlkVEjETM9AwBxX4WVJQusGRbun1bbEZ4pLTCsc49Fvd2rnRsZCJuOBBKWkCRKGZmzO6hGMSav1c67HXgql8kIsNeFhkzZLUGM2FA2b9PebYyCRfDMAT2izo0HF2xA=w640-h414" title="The State Capitol Building can be seen from our part of the Count area" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There are a few parks and wild areas
mixed in with the residential and commercial development.<span> </span>Pretty much, the only big water in ‘my’
section is Percival Cove, which is part of the former Deschutes River estuary
that is now impounded as a portion of “Capitol Lake”.<span> </span>But, this is where my group sees most of the
water birds seen in our area.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgsYzKKyPzxggv1aQa5uSA8017yXcaS8Q-UzbD6bZwpaFn63UA6wxptrFeu7Fa5r9Zk7QQxqqKDEoM1paKSb54WL092McNENXv7lmFvI9FE2M_RDYC6PVqTpvEZlvFwpVVd0b9t60NvdetaOo3k7p2V31qbZqahSmTjyVgxAz4jXAWaAzPLjbO1PR__w=s4708" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2982" data-original-width="4708" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgsYzKKyPzxggv1aQa5uSA8017yXcaS8Q-UzbD6bZwpaFn63UA6wxptrFeu7Fa5r9Zk7QQxqqKDEoM1paKSb54WL092McNENXv7lmFvI9FE2M_RDYC6PVqTpvEZlvFwpVVd0b9t60NvdetaOo3k7p2V31qbZqahSmTjyVgxAz4jXAWaAzPLjbO1PR__w=w640-h406" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Most participants contact the count
coordinator for assignment to one of the teams. Other options include feeder
watching or recording birds on one’s own property or neighborhood. The count coordinator arranges for the data to be tallied and submitted.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjEZsxl88ZqGGxFSLJJf_lxZau4lvCBHcCvAOE_A-cH0BQB5n9BQSDxE0XR5EQDV-9TG5fmF9wzCT-TODiexsqDNr128arR6K9rI1m9u-0uJnxeCKcnV1P4wXQYTn7J-wrEjaPmoNrGMc4CsFf-OgO77p9o1Q5wjt9zG2K0WGlRYM690Zft9JKgc2OFA=s3059" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1917" data-original-width="3059" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjEZsxl88ZqGGxFSLJJf_lxZau4lvCBHcCvAOE_A-cH0BQB5n9BQSDxE0XR5EQDV-9TG5fmF9wzCT-TODiexsqDNr128arR6K9rI1m9u-0uJnxeCKcnV1P4wXQYTn7J-wrEjaPmoNrGMc4CsFf-OgO77p9o1Q5wjt9zG2K0WGlRYM690Zft9JKgc2OFA=w640-h402" title="Why couldn't we find this flock of Cedar Waxwings on Count Day?" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bill sent out the following summary of
the Count:</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The
PRELIMINARY TOTAL for the count is 126 species. I have heard back from
all the areas, but do not have all of the data sheets returned so that number
could change. For some perspective the 10-year and 30-year count averages
are 126.5 so we are right about average this year in species, though count
parties noted that they felt total numbers were down. Notable misses were
Virginia Rail and Cedar Waxwing. Highlights were Red-Shouldered Hawk;
Yellow-billed Loon; Eastern Phoebe; Black Phoebe; and Lesser Goldfinch.</span></span></span></i></p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span></i><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br />
My question to you all... Did any of you have Virginia Rail or Cedar
Waxwing on the count and I somehow missed it? We did have a couple of
count week birds as well. They included Northern Shrike and Black-bellied
Plover. Was the Capitol Lake Redhead seen during Count Week? It was
not seen on count day? Please feel free to share this with your teams if
they are not on this mailing list (most participants)</span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt0MnedegKgLEQIqc-EAzgu5NKsZ8AzMWXJh96kS05JCGrKVCT46DeSaKm_xmXFG3qObeuuD5ANsP60aZ934s1TBMLjo77UvBhp4MrqBL3fFLZoQWVWqos7fZc-diT-r7VpVO7-JKpf7HiI2dPAjvhwO9h4DY0GPkIF7GOIcUjsxArGsZD6KM8yxipwA=s4120" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="4120" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt0MnedegKgLEQIqc-EAzgu5NKsZ8AzMWXJh96kS05JCGrKVCT46DeSaKm_xmXFG3qObeuuD5ANsP60aZ934s1TBMLjo77UvBhp4MrqBL3fFLZoQWVWqos7fZc-diT-r7VpVO7-JKpf7HiI2dPAjvhwO9h4DY0GPkIF7GOIcUjsxArGsZD6KM8yxipwA=w640-h368" title="Capitol Lake ducks" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">“My” group in Area 8 tallied 54 of the
126 species seen, but only 3-½% of the number of individual birds seen… mainly
due to the high numbers of waterfowl and other water birds seen in other sections of the Count.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgItTVoELKZ1K6Vfr79YR_wfMkT_qQo3B7xkkEsmgwmYbts-2phVsw6-zUz3ynZZRK9GxX6EuavBwdAmNvibKvvF2_747VLrx5dbiLev5QKZQwgHqDsojNu-rcs1GjxwPuFSUFB7H1NX-o2_ki7kwqsHh7FZoGZrx0USxNunDuSPcXU5yUuoi1HXinvng=s1576" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1576" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgItTVoELKZ1K6Vfr79YR_wfMkT_qQo3B7xkkEsmgwmYbts-2phVsw6-zUz3ynZZRK9GxX6EuavBwdAmNvibKvvF2_747VLrx5dbiLev5QKZQwgHqDsojNu-rcs1GjxwPuFSUFB7H1NX-o2_ki7kwqsHh7FZoGZrx0USxNunDuSPcXU5yUuoi1HXinvng=w640-h422" title="Immature California Gull" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Our group <b><i>did </i></b>find the only California
Gull on the Count!<span> </span>An immature bird at
Percival Cove.<span> </span>And, we found half of all
“Slate-colored” Juncos (well, there were only 2 found) with a <i>Cismontanus</i>
bird at my home feeder.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipD3YxJ4abKpJoAkRAkog_Cs0Rnp-6JLgQNP1HIJHN6iWPy_cW0LOwjUQzfiNYWT21BihS0wkR9rAmlOztMFSJ6vrCd2TWj_Z8eqkMvnJIPsVXkGxOJKkIKvsj5ddLBlholXvSZC674Sb9SXiOlPrB6yY8mNbUejpgJZ7jpAAwifXT3Td1hx6CuzY-gg=s3248" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2099" data-original-width="3248" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipD3YxJ4abKpJoAkRAkog_Cs0Rnp-6JLgQNP1HIJHN6iWPy_cW0LOwjUQzfiNYWT21BihS0wkR9rAmlOztMFSJ6vrCd2TWj_Z8eqkMvnJIPsVXkGxOJKkIKvsj5ddLBlholXvSZC674Sb9SXiOlPrB6yY8mNbUejpgJZ7jpAAwifXT3Td1hx6CuzY-gg=w640-h414" title=""Cassiar" Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis cismontanus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">At the "countdown dinner" that evening, I found out that one group of the bird counters
had found a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62355050">Yellow-billed Loon</a> in Budd Inlet, thanks to Kyle Leader's sharp eyes.<span>
</span>I had not seen this species during my “Peregrination” Year, so made
arrangements to go out in the kayak the next day and search for it with fellow birder John Fleckenstein.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyOmzVTuLxxHUkZ7GFAMtcgxiYJ25CoZdjsR2agThAehpwcbjeEaAAb-h6qV6c9_q9qXRDAmxVeOHHVwMgRUAN9iIR_paXIgZQBHJXsBs4dDPYZcn4ZIagau2EI-yIHylnNidBw06rFdFlIJZIScDWwvhpJReCQ2Nz1wJh0Jn3LAkEBala7GNJwxVrpw=s762" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="762" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyOmzVTuLxxHUkZ7GFAMtcgxiYJ25CoZdjsR2agThAehpwcbjeEaAAb-h6qV6c9_q9qXRDAmxVeOHHVwMgRUAN9iIR_paXIgZQBHJXsBs4dDPYZcn4ZIagau2EI-yIHylnNidBw06rFdFlIJZIScDWwvhpJReCQ2Nz1wJh0Jn3LAkEBala7GNJwxVrpw=w640-h438" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Not having kayaked much this year, I
discovered the next day that I have muscles that I had completely forgotten
about… because today they were all screaming at me!<span>
</span>The next couple of days were spend looking for the Loon from shore, to
no avail. Sigh! You can't see them all.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNTByV557kwmUitump9ExOmYUUpoO04QmcQJY_kYb0OREGGoe3BTEHZ9n1NHWEXtMoYs4F_xZS1ASzZfIXU36I1KO0wzIX8tf1Me6myZQkTuzjeMefGtQ8jxo01NcY7SpVt8fp1PtzANXVbicpABwupiy6Nc1fGqmglh1pvPH4qgPrQrjh70hulHAQWA=s4622" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2747" data-original-width="4622" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNTByV557kwmUitump9ExOmYUUpoO04QmcQJY_kYb0OREGGoe3BTEHZ9n1NHWEXtMoYs4F_xZS1ASzZfIXU36I1KO0wzIX8tf1Me6myZQkTuzjeMefGtQ8jxo01NcY7SpVt8fp1PtzANXVbicpABwupiy6Nc1fGqmglh1pvPH4qgPrQrjh70hulHAQWA=w640-h380" title="Still paddling against the tide . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">But, it was worth it.<span> </span>I love participating in the Christmas Bird Counts, which <i>force
</i>me to spend the full day in the field, with good friends, looking at birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpl3neLSztpc1Y0JgD5mMmW07DQXRrJi0c_iOEe5qC4Cuo6AxYOAC3t98iQUDyAyO1BimvtSWRJY8Jijv2E2ValswDvTIZwNlrOaFc1Q8eypYEDZKff43SGkeH0HJP8N1yE7mbJSCshbjpV4aqW9Eh-zUy4SXhk_BEfkkgyINnEPy4pm0rjDVxyQVGfA=s1890" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="1890" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpl3neLSztpc1Y0JgD5mMmW07DQXRrJi0c_iOEe5qC4Cuo6AxYOAC3t98iQUDyAyO1BimvtSWRJY8Jijv2E2ValswDvTIZwNlrOaFc1Q8eypYEDZKff43SGkeH0HJP8N1yE7mbJSCshbjpV4aqW9Eh-zUy4SXhk_BEfkkgyINnEPy4pm0rjDVxyQVGfA=w640-h434" title="Male Anna's Hummingbird, shining in the sun" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>
Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Olympia, WA, USA47.0378741 -122.900695127.267968438687959 -158.0569451 66.807779761312048 -87.7444451tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-59566942092191856622021-12-04T15:10:00.000-08:002021-12-04T15:10:00.734-08:00December 12-14, 2019 – Theler Wetlands and lead-up to the Oly CBC<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is nearing the point that I'm 2 years behind in finishing my "Peregrination Big Year" blogs. Sorry/Not Sorry - Life intervenes, and going Birding is 'way better than writing about going Birding. My goal is to finish the Blog to Dec. 31st 2019 before the end of 2021!! Thanks for bearing with me!</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIvW6Jo54ysNte9R2nvklPfXCFOH_JOGmIBQqNSpWvU5UAXN7v21uTFqekjGNJI3pq4M7kELx2EmAQS5xUOb2ztIZZZlths-kjsLkRCfMfyZdqfWmkk7e1OQWRqDwWGlheN5UWjkIL5gi7h__Ecj4I4eR8_P-nP-ha8Yc2xEgl-9n5pjAR-BzuoHOdmQ=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="5184" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIvW6Jo54ysNte9R2nvklPfXCFOH_JOGmIBQqNSpWvU5UAXN7v21uTFqekjGNJI3pq4M7kELx2EmAQS5xUOb2ztIZZZlths-kjsLkRCfMfyZdqfWmkk7e1OQWRqDwWGlheN5UWjkIL5gi7h__Ecj4I4eR8_P-nP-ha8Yc2xEgl-9n5pjAR-BzuoHOdmQ=w640-h360" title="Birding at Theler with John R & Laurel P. Diane Yorgason-Quinn photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/76552838@N03/49211108091" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">My Peregrination Year is winding down,
and I really don’t have plans to travel for the remainder of the year.<span> </span>I’ve vastly exceeded the Budget that Marty
and I had agreed upon when I started the year, and between Family and other
commitments, it’s unlikely that I’ll jet off for a trans-continental rarity
before the year is over.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUBPwOiu4GTmSqXYwrtxkT3yj9n56okX08rPpFnIn4DY6s6qzX5lF7OEt7cYSY2ZBO_xUCPTMUqh3q9vBg_3T7ny8QTESyEVqRGIdxUJNCqsf49mvjkO1HppPmGOBiNsldQz8psMjQeQJm05fDhNSoLyHC7bwA_eZT5SET-VftjLjGGDUC5qag4s-BBQ=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="5184" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUBPwOiu4GTmSqXYwrtxkT3yj9n56okX08rPpFnIn4DY6s6qzX5lF7OEt7cYSY2ZBO_xUCPTMUqh3q9vBg_3T7ny8QTESyEVqRGIdxUJNCqsf49mvjkO1HppPmGOBiNsldQz8psMjQeQJm05fDhNSoLyHC7bwA_eZT5SET-VftjLjGGDUC5qag4s-BBQ=w640-h360" title="Diane Yorgason-Quinn photo: Theler Wetlands welcome sign - https://www.flickr.com/photos/76552838@N03/49211298452" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">That said, if something cool pops up
within a reasonable distance, like the <a href="https://jonsperegrination.blogspot.com/2021/11/december-10-2019-rustic-beauty.html" target="_blank">Rustic Bunting</a> this week at Cape
Disappointment, I’ll certainly “chase” it.<span>
</span>In any event, one never knows when or if something might turn up locally
and unexpectedly.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZSSl5X__G-Cv4UAwjQL5yOlBwkx_xdhyZG7IHPjJ4Yya6WRQfh2-3O5Cked2Xs2OEmybpjB6CHwwNyEt3uLWkqyl4IvJ84p-mOgJ2zYj3aIzbDUCxnOgWDysr0tvoOvGgMUFFHV5SHh0AaUoT8NRgmslKwNoG0iJA5Ju_mafSWEVw1JXLDBDYR_OApQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZSSl5X__G-Cv4UAwjQL5yOlBwkx_xdhyZG7IHPjJ4Yya6WRQfh2-3O5Cked2Xs2OEmybpjB6CHwwNyEt3uLWkqyl4IvJ84p-mOgJ2zYj3aIzbDUCxnOgWDysr0tvoOvGgMUFFHV5SHh0AaUoT8NRgmslKwNoG0iJA5Ju_mafSWEVw1JXLDBDYR_OApQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">With that in mind, on Thursday morning
the 12th, I drove up to the Theler Wetlands for the bi-monthly bird walk.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRVjHcURLHyuDZzUGylZ69L3sL9AM504T6Md9duDs3fsWxnWpcfNUd5_3EWoEH6RmkjeAJOQvEB2YXF5R44gFwsRJ7EC1SvbfEqknGlXfzLr8GAcoP6EoJq_7QCZda4iOQAQrn6UkbL0BXjNi16VxVa9THTQWWvj01DSq8CqfuT6En5gwaeiAGU16xrA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRVjHcURLHyuDZzUGylZ69L3sL9AM504T6Md9duDs3fsWxnWpcfNUd5_3EWoEH6RmkjeAJOQvEB2YXF5R44gFwsRJ7EC1SvbfEqknGlXfzLr8GAcoP6EoJq_7QCZda4iOQAQrn6UkbL0BXjNi16VxVa9THTQWWvj01DSq8CqfuT6En5gwaeiAGU16xrA=w640-h426" title="John takes excellent photos; Laurel looks on" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD8EmNFNakVfjaBweUvR5FlTYNKqxzTJPd0ofXcHuduvqLlqlCZCdP9sPBNnoHrsCPhj_2ebhWv2fL96j2Xz2XkVValuiUbZeyzZKz-CSqZTg84lzpx6XDqY7iyCXUiTyvG08zlVrkIp0-1kVOXDTemFxfyUjF4ze1eldQU-xmGEP5RKM3p3tl6ABIxA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD8EmNFNakVfjaBweUvR5FlTYNKqxzTJPd0ofXcHuduvqLlqlCZCdP9sPBNnoHrsCPhj_2ebhWv2fL96j2Xz2XkVValuiUbZeyzZKz-CSqZTg84lzpx6XDqY7iyCXUiTyvG08zlVrkIp0-1kVOXDTemFxfyUjF4ze1eldQU-xmGEP5RKM3p3tl6ABIxA=w640-h426" title="Faye dresses for the weather!" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This walk is promoted by Tahoma
Audubon, and led by John Riegsecker and Faye Hands.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAFUJbe8BrwawFXdV16SGfJ8uJi2sQa2uzA_Y6lIbxrEfhit-FXAp7odcpBJHNcBgFO6aUG7RcgLCDhdqa-6CtKU72nfKOdakB_aQAZXxiPeqRZ8FQIelFOMGQjZsVLSkZu3-4NskS3LzPn4vVCnRXJ8F0RGqaVsXnLG9vfMH9dp0iPRvghaOax8dYoQ=s7152" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="7152" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAFUJbe8BrwawFXdV16SGfJ8uJi2sQa2uzA_Y6lIbxrEfhit-FXAp7odcpBJHNcBgFO6aUG7RcgLCDhdqa-6CtKU72nfKOdakB_aQAZXxiPeqRZ8FQIelFOMGQjZsVLSkZu3-4NskS3LzPn4vVCnRXJ8F0RGqaVsXnLG9vfMH9dp0iPRvghaOax8dYoQ=w640-h96" title="Diane Yorgason-Quinn - Theler Estuary Photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/76552838@N03/49211329647" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This 3-1/4 mile walk is on level,
well-maintained trails. Theler is primarily an estuary habitat
at the mouth of the Union River, with wooded areas as well, creating a lot of
edge habitat for a good diversity of birds.<span>
</span>The group meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 8 a.m. and typically ends
about 12 noon. The <a href="https://www.tahomaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Tahoma Audubon </a>calendar usually has contact information for this walk.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCU1A_cdgDJBrWHPD_C8AWM9WYHN1lcXKeN_vGU00Zc_6EaUaru269na3SdI8FQP7ABp0xNaP9df9juqoYcyYwjttM8-6AroPYfO6B_u9weutzs4_YScm4nEWutGWTv43e7uxvWaV6lJ4UmsKjCbmFHlg6RP_1JzdMQM21aRsEPCujk_mTNpLbEpaIEg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="2048" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCU1A_cdgDJBrWHPD_C8AWM9WYHN1lcXKeN_vGU00Zc_6EaUaru269na3SdI8FQP7ABp0xNaP9df9juqoYcyYwjttM8-6AroPYfO6B_u9weutzs4_YScm4nEWutGWTv43e7uxvWaV6lJ4UmsKjCbmFHlg6RP_1JzdMQM21aRsEPCujk_mTNpLbEpaIEg=w640-h406" title="A hen Ring-necked Pheasant!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There was rain and mist all morning
today, and we got to the estuary on an ebb tide.<span> </span>One of the more interesting sightings today
was a Ring-necked Pheasant.<span> </span>This species
was first introduced into Washington by the old Game Commission many years ago, and a few persist
here - or show up from more recent introductions.<span> </span>The <a href="https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/02273/wdfw02273.pdf" target="_blank">Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife</a>
releases pheasants for hunting on Pope Timber lands about 7 miles northwest of
the wetlands.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEja5oBXtSJaQB-FQs59lnmqf1MaSOapxCAAuJsOcwpBopZb6BArGk-oesuZS3k-YIlQ3HfZi5CKcy_RPv_kC0kM0DzJJ-hEgWA8chuXkeFGFpvzXS8Hc5aU_IalupPD2ZqOkjJVo_DHj7KqDYdGQyY-DE959zugsyVSw4iwcWTUl4jBMTK9XjSWK1L-LA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEja5oBXtSJaQB-FQs59lnmqf1MaSOapxCAAuJsOcwpBopZb6BArGk-oesuZS3k-YIlQ3HfZi5CKcy_RPv_kC0kM0DzJJ-hEgWA8chuXkeFGFpvzXS8Hc5aU_IalupPD2ZqOkjJVo_DHj7KqDYdGQyY-DE959zugsyVSw4iwcWTUl4jBMTK9XjSWK1L-LA=w640-h434" title="Short-eared Owl on waterfowl nesting box" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In all, we had a good morning’s walk,
seeing about 30 species, and were rewarded with a view of a Short-eared Owl
hunting the fields and marsh.<span> </span>This owl
species hunts in the daytime as well as at dusk, and is always a treat to see.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJ3okSFru4E98pkZw-B8q2cEwPFm0PM-KdffddRx3m9uWY6dzjxSlaSz6P6o7_KWXLBIgk7FYD2z7JlMZrilKUcSZ-uKZHlFzKVOzF1x5edzWwNfTGWYSXdZEhR1hHhpZNhyep_KDK4ZSLz_gIsAqThM98XK16jVL8IivXtmzrjo8NoJ054ScizZHMA=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="5184" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJ3okSFru4E98pkZw-B8q2cEwPFm0PM-KdffddRx3m9uWY6dzjxSlaSz6P6o7_KWXLBIgk7FYD2z7JlMZrilKUcSZ-uKZHlFzKVOzF1x5edzWwNfTGWYSXdZEhR1hHhpZNhyep_KDK4ZSLz_gIsAqThM98XK16jVL8IivXtmzrjo8NoJ054ScizZHMA=w640-h360" title="Diane Yorgason-Quinn Photo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/76552838@N03/49211077341" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">I enjoy birding with this group, and
appreciate their knowledge, expertise and insights, as well as their amiable
conversation.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizqjLIEPVxTaFA15H83qJjzgC7GJzbAITeFGF0lUnk8hWZrSmaYFRgdY22QPmOu5OdatcJOShhkF_1nERK3_AoIdh3xc2V_weHB1em5-6OWwvOWmXj7mzPzbB2HdaJvxUC8YFEfrrq-oOanCVLFzekZ4fO6GN7JZS24au6oDt-TvtzE8H9JTc9rTokGg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizqjLIEPVxTaFA15H83qJjzgC7GJzbAITeFGF0lUnk8hWZrSmaYFRgdY22QPmOu5OdatcJOShhkF_1nERK3_AoIdh3xc2V_weHB1em5-6OWwvOWmXj7mzPzbB2HdaJvxUC8YFEfrrq-oOanCVLFzekZ4fO6GN7JZS24au6oDt-TvtzE8H9JTc9rTokGg=w640-h426" title="Crows, crows, and more crows . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The next day was a Friday the 13th.<span> </span>I was born on Friday the 13th, and consider
every one of them as my “Real” Birthday.<span>
</span>I had several errands in the morning, then walked down to the local
Safeway store to pick up a couple more items.<span>
</span>Since I was already in the area, I did a walk around the adjacent Yauger
Park.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh35z1BC15Q9T8l6rDZRs55e88kbS6O12KmN02v3hkrCqbhTRA4NbZWMonGRUGOOKvz3juGp3acRNhztLLQzyRj34wpTImRX8ZxRNqL4tceH0xKryPFPM8Iam8-Us7o7IzPGX-PsJ4kDkhdshPfVjsJJ4ZC5_X39wx2hzbPJ5pXmvisJMwezk6-2-q_gQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh35z1BC15Q9T8l6rDZRs55e88kbS6O12KmN02v3hkrCqbhTRA4NbZWMonGRUGOOKvz3juGp3acRNhztLLQzyRj34wpTImRX8ZxRNqL4tceH0xKryPFPM8Iam8-Us7o7IzPGX-PsJ4kDkhdshPfVjsJJ4ZC5_X39wx2hzbPJ5pXmvisJMwezk6-2-q_gQ=w640-h426" title="City of Olympia - Yauger Park Skateborders" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In 1982, the <a href="https://streamteam.info/nature-sleuths/yauger-park/" target="_blank">City of Olympia</a> developed
a low 40-acre area (can you say “wetland”) into a storm water retention facility,
superimposed over a sports complex with ball fields/soccer pitches, horseshoe
pits, skateboard park, etc., and named the park after a retired US Army Colonel
Yauger.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz1w1dVJlqLYXXEl0C_WgsJmTYGK6mHixleShbyJTDD-lRKU1luD5AnLgroItzyHBXlQaDgsaC4JqJEdWiT6NnJyDwlTcmmIaBf5k8VWRpQ42Wd3eO0tQ7pfNQn5zEC2C0VxTMsIvOWuUReTz2eMD1blvlYNBbhBPru5jD87jfQcfGNcjGA1lJGw37bA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz1w1dVJlqLYXXEl0C_WgsJmTYGK6mHixleShbyJTDD-lRKU1luD5AnLgroItzyHBXlQaDgsaC4JqJEdWiT6NnJyDwlTcmmIaBf5k8VWRpQ42Wd3eO0tQ7pfNQn5zEC2C0VxTMsIvOWuUReTz2eMD1blvlYNBbhBPru5jD87jfQcfGNcjGA1lJGw37bA=w640-h360" title=". . . and more crows . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The main ‘attraction’ here today was
the flock of over 200 Crows feeding in the saturated grounds.<span> </span>The cacophony of crows calling <i>almost</i>
drowned out the traffic sounds from nearby Cooper Point Boulevard.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgozF92K2ijRWsvtaw2CIerK4LegAWv_nCVxs3bpESQWlB7J_vjNAwZM5Eo35P9-c8fkG1CQ2lmjN_tbkKSE9v03FARrWAVb009oRCJTdK5JNUXl886QGWVgI591IGikQeikIXlkBzojTWppVket8gO7zHco0mog-DkyFOjvba6hbROn-X-h6gtZea92w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1660" data-original-width="2048" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgozF92K2ijRWsvtaw2CIerK4LegAWv_nCVxs3bpESQWlB7J_vjNAwZM5Eo35P9-c8fkG1CQ2lmjN_tbkKSE9v03FARrWAVb009oRCJTdK5JNUXl886QGWVgI591IGikQeikIXlkBzojTWppVket8gO7zHco0mog-DkyFOjvba6hbROn-X-h6gtZea92w=w640-h518" title="Horseshoes, Anyone?" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">On Saturday the 14<sup>th</sup>, it was
cold and rainy, so I pretty much stayed close to home, preparing for tomorrow’s
Christmas Bird Count.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Theler Wetlands eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62256071" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yauger Park eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62277232" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Home eBird Checklist on Saturday is
<a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62303216" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12oBtxtnaTaC1WAmteDuop5gI3_ZK4RgCtRX4WNlNH8NE5TnlMHKf2aOqfnQeOo3w04T4fr5gwjhHcpj2a8uOPXZriO9M_FqLEyt6sMY2DdaCp5fRjttDu-D1NrBjGHz_3d9wscJRBXAQzwbcrbNTNaRCQiUcevFe0Ka-woU25N0OG4A75VVkdDSkFw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12oBtxtnaTaC1WAmteDuop5gI3_ZK4RgCtRX4WNlNH8NE5TnlMHKf2aOqfnQeOo3w04T4fr5gwjhHcpj2a8uOPXZriO9M_FqLEyt6sMY2DdaCp5fRjttDu-D1NrBjGHz_3d9wscJRBXAQzwbcrbNTNaRCQiUcevFe0Ka-woU25N0OG4A75VVkdDSkFw=w640-h426" title="Fly Away, Fly Away, All . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-41814037084581292192021-11-22T16:13:00.000-08:002021-11-22T16:13:33.639-08:00December 11, 2019 - Nisqually in the Drizzle<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsZclnxp4h5SStTegiyk6LsWXRQUgOmwlh0dYIC-RJU2ntpk1Z3XYclGOP6oWSfgAU8s5GW4SC9SJONgmT2qIsQzrL7BanXCRCPFhj3H0If3KO0pXsraLG39Xk4_UyqzuLlkm_y9BrAgQqTuGGk4UgxX14MX2zatcyPpG2MyeUeYxIRLTGZt-1r4fkNw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsZclnxp4h5SStTegiyk6LsWXRQUgOmwlh0dYIC-RJU2ntpk1Z3XYclGOP6oWSfgAU8s5GW4SC9SJONgmT2qIsQzrL7BanXCRCPFhj3H0If3KO0pXsraLG39Xk4_UyqzuLlkm_y9BrAgQqTuGGk4UgxX14MX2zatcyPpG2MyeUeYxIRLTGZt-1r4fkNw=w640-h640" title="Nisqually Refuge Volunteers Shep and Rob leading the Wednesday Bird Walk." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Today, about 20 birders arrived for the weekly Wednesday
bird walk at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge on a morning in the
mid-40s.<span> </span>We had a mostly dry session,
with some intermittent light drizzle.<span> </span>I
have made an effort to attend this birding venue as often as I can when I’m not
roaming around the country. Good people, and Good Birding.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfNLQFs2CuIeiWEGO7_eTjXflGQjPew0cmMCZdW-yuGPeGmNrdVzj_cbrN6aImPMbJlAxfk27yex5BJG8FE4utjzsS-Bo7-OEn5sB54vJKa45aMAKkIbMr_Lh2iUKdjW22vkW3ga2pkficGB_sddFfKxbMg_fBwivfz-PkeVQW4H2FGmSRSqtVeL2lSA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2048" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfNLQFs2CuIeiWEGO7_eTjXflGQjPew0cmMCZdW-yuGPeGmNrdVzj_cbrN6aImPMbJlAxfk27yex5BJG8FE4utjzsS-Bo7-OEn5sB54vJKa45aMAKkIbMr_Lh2iUKdjW22vkW3ga2pkficGB_sddFfKxbMg_fBwivfz-PkeVQW4H2FGmSRSqtVeL2lSA=w640-h332" title="Canada Geese - Branta canadensis" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The pond levels in the Puget Trough continue to rise with
the late fall rains, and there are a lot of waterfowl to be seen here at the
Refuge.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkGFC_-oFxeMw0PINgaDg0keqwG8xGbUULfbncefkaBJQCUft8f2npx5Xxc7Po0gBNMXw0vLnfu10HMr7_1Jja5mLgwsOcAiWdQZzlouSAINC-6q2wkDfJCep4QUcenrl-nkl_Lo-XXv0LvF0QjbyREQOfNhU4lAKJ9nQbYVePmlex9vVRU7IslSzIgQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkGFC_-oFxeMw0PINgaDg0keqwG8xGbUULfbncefkaBJQCUft8f2npx5Xxc7Po0gBNMXw0vLnfu10HMr7_1Jja5mLgwsOcAiWdQZzlouSAINC-6q2wkDfJCep4QUcenrl-nkl_Lo-XXv0LvF0QjbyREQOfNhU4lAKJ9nQbYVePmlex9vVRU7IslSzIgQ=w640-h396" title="Northern Shoveler hen - Spatula clypeata" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Most of the waterfowl we see are geese or “dabbling”
ducks.<span> </span>The dabblers are the field and
surface-feeding birds, rather than “diving” ducks.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4-XjCgYuA7v62QU1oMHQx924OfGMAUAAv68lTLDCCHs7LbPJGz7iIFjL0AdTzs5VFjIML3fAFj-TLwsv0j32LbWz3I_qolOW5FLNIV4ifavKU-BhWdY0ZmAEraw7L0Y3T0mPoOx-YBdPPP9Lbw1900ZPSEz_KbHLwhq_UcQVTygGObTPDf-iWbyqcIg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4-XjCgYuA7v62QU1oMHQx924OfGMAUAAv68lTLDCCHs7LbPJGz7iIFjL0AdTzs5VFjIML3fAFj-TLwsv0j32LbWz3I_qolOW5FLNIV4ifavKU-BhWdY0ZmAEraw7L0Y3T0mPoOx-YBdPPP9Lbw1900ZPSEz_KbHLwhq_UcQVTygGObTPDf-iWbyqcIg=w640-h434" title="Bufflehead and Common Goldeneye hens - "Diving Ducks"" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We tend to see the diving ducks in the deeper waters along the
McAllister Creek estuary, in the deeper ponds, or in the Nisqually River itself, where foraging
opportunities are better for those species.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb7hSA_N-HknQkGP_v_XkgJ_ZNJVaLn6ecbjPRR3dWGMtakRCEc_bkaix_nujSMNq5tgkEC3TsirYDZXI0AHUiQnuoYyGS0aWclYnWMlbgtzuAY5a363mJQVpA630mwrMlrPrdKuQWk7YrAAgwZk5o2yq1q2CFWoAqmrfyccmhT3th5JI4JXI-3V3j9Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb7hSA_N-HknQkGP_v_XkgJ_ZNJVaLn6ecbjPRR3dWGMtakRCEc_bkaix_nujSMNq5tgkEC3TsirYDZXI0AHUiQnuoYyGS0aWclYnWMlbgtzuAY5a363mJQVpA630mwrMlrPrdKuQWk7YrAAgwZk5o2yq1q2CFWoAqmrfyccmhT3th5JI4JXI-3V3j9Q=w640-h350" title="A Belted Kingfisher hunts at the flooded restoration area" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The tide was at 11 a.m., but it was only a +7.7-foot low
water.<span> </span>So, while we had a lot of mud
when we first arrived at the north dike and estuary, the tide flooded pretty
quickly toward a 13.3-foot high.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl780x7XcTojDIDVS6EsyIh_9QL_-iWT5cG6-zDkVwYGWF4ItecfMpjkMRuRZZD8E96As1qmzFB5Ftp6aUoK5W4_d6Y-XGe2UmELUx5s47aQjR00vlAphSvZLfx_bkINo6nOW7wSm8nhI1ZSQduaKA8Y9fUe_4Q3KuAuc4a_KOb4BNtL079R8qL5QUlA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="2048" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl780x7XcTojDIDVS6EsyIh_9QL_-iWT5cG6-zDkVwYGWF4ItecfMpjkMRuRZZD8E96As1qmzFB5Ftp6aUoK5W4_d6Y-XGe2UmELUx5s47aQjR00vlAphSvZLfx_bkINo6nOW7wSm8nhI1ZSQduaKA8Y9fUe_4Q3KuAuc4a_KOb4BNtL079R8qL5QUlA=w640-h394" title="Three Weird Sisters - Least Sandpipers (Calidris minutilla)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">When the tide is most of the way in, the water pushes the
waterfowl and shorebirds ‘inland’, which allows us Birders closer views of birds
that otherwise would have remained ‘way out on the flats.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1UsC7i0Ee4Uh3U6qfJ_yTWX-WL5BmPbcf9Z5Yrl26fm9rUxwZEtgOOKB3Keqqbe9hj2nzbFm6_UlESCHZxw33vfWBXveFCRpMlCbYN6x6TLB2qTyNHs9QowLzY_bWO6UbbM2u8l-tbzP16bLQb5JGHLEGclKhnJdyVmGEO_idepkYcOxrapszv3AFBg=s867" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1UsC7i0Ee4Uh3U6qfJ_yTWX-WL5BmPbcf9Z5Yrl26fm9rUxwZEtgOOKB3Keqqbe9hj2nzbFm6_UlESCHZxw33vfWBXveFCRpMlCbYN6x6TLB2qTyNHs9QowLzY_bWO6UbbM2u8l-tbzP16bLQb5JGHLEGclKhnJdyVmGEO_idepkYcOxrapszv3AFBg=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Refuge removed the old outer dike about a dozen years
ago, to restore the estuary and improve habitat for ESA-threatened Chinook salmon.<span> </span>Many of the trees that had grown behind the previous
dike have died and provide perches for birds of prey.<span> </span>It often takes a view through a spotting
scope (or large camera lens) to get identification on birds that are over ¼
mile away.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMmDsolt2yi_3Z6TQxI5ASg4TJNcOaw1lNjrUBqwyvc_-Kskrd_ZuGxxIHMEaiS9EvDwLubiONOLiZp7tf7J8kZy9AS_EJfJB8iptIVu9AwdkZxkwaUA6vnJgxS8xxkxFX_eppRMYz_zRmHEtEEg6T8dF4K8ah_-TiQeKorzwqU8I8YZrfrh2CWkfrAA=s1116" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="1116" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMmDsolt2yi_3Z6TQxI5ASg4TJNcOaw1lNjrUBqwyvc_-Kskrd_ZuGxxIHMEaiS9EvDwLubiONOLiZp7tf7J8kZy9AS_EJfJB8iptIVu9AwdkZxkwaUA6vnJgxS8xxkxFX_eppRMYz_zRmHEtEEg6T8dF4K8ah_-TiQeKorzwqU8I8YZrfrh2CWkfrAA=w640-h366" title="Peregrine Falcon pair - the female is the larger of the two" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Here, the birds are seen to be a pair of Peregrine
Falcons.<span> </span>Nowadays, we see several birds of
this species throughout the winter, and have to remember that these birds suffered badly from eggshell thinning, and that they (and we)
benefit from the 1972 ban on the use of DDT pesticides in the United States
(Thank you, Richard Nixon…) and subsequent restoration efforts.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOPJxlgrEXCT16kNlR5yRdWZ-6pJ35WHyCZPxjhZp7hEdM_EuPlQrzO2hoA20nJ--dtLC1X1aYd5XEsxcxVkNSIi3d9DWChJQnNhnTxrhzpqI2oT516bmFf1d5GZdKakZE0GnvEqZF0cyuS0_fuMSWLw-P9YbnqGvb0f3RO6r5ULPrT8wSZgTwHVKVrw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2048" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOPJxlgrEXCT16kNlR5yRdWZ-6pJ35WHyCZPxjhZp7hEdM_EuPlQrzO2hoA20nJ--dtLC1X1aYd5XEsxcxVkNSIi3d9DWChJQnNhnTxrhzpqI2oT516bmFf1d5GZdKakZE0GnvEqZF0cyuS0_fuMSWLw-P9YbnqGvb0f3RO6r5ULPrT8wSZgTwHVKVrw=w640-h390" title="First-cycle "Olympic" Gull - Glaucous-winged X Western Gull hybrid" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Hundreds of gulls use the Refuge’s estuaries, tidal
marshes and river banks.<span> </span>It is a
challenge here, in the heart of the “Olympic Gull” distribution, to sort
through the large, pink-footed gulls.<span>
</span>Puget Sound’s resident and wintering gulls are mostly hybrids between
Glaucous-winged and Western Gulls.<span> </span>Individual
birds run the gamut in their physical characteristics between the two taxa.<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW8EbZ3Ek3m_gmh93HBbcuEcORBvmy0giCgfiiBLX688KH2ONp2MXJ4JscLvQUvnSbfavJbPZmSw4BYo7CtvKC8n3GSqOcQbkdI6eTaNF2VvgUOIixbtOQ3qUBNcsnSnx6A2LfREbbtkHF9mPDr3679l70LNud9r9GaXYdRvbEFTnZ2HKOObFqqooJYg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW8EbZ3Ek3m_gmh93HBbcuEcORBvmy0giCgfiiBLX688KH2ONp2MXJ4JscLvQUvnSbfavJbPZmSw4BYo7CtvKC8n3GSqOcQbkdI6eTaNF2VvgUOIixbtOQ3qUBNcsnSnx6A2LfREbbtkHF9mPDr3679l70LNud9r9GaXYdRvbEFTnZ2HKOObFqqooJYg=w640-h434" title="Adult "Olympic" Gulls" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Visitors to our region from “away" often wish to ‘twitch’
a Western or Glaucous-winged Gull on their Life Lists, and are disappointed to find that
there are few ‘pure’ birds to be found.<span>
</span>On the other hand, ‘Gulling’ here can certainly sharpen one’s skills.<span> </span>The birds in the photo above show the muddy
heads characteristic of winter-plumaged Glaucous-winged Gulls, but have much
darker grey mantles and not-quite-black wing-tips that would be expected in a ‘pure’
Western Gull.<span> </span>“Just” hybrids . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNF0CSTPTD1Bb5k5QP4LTduFSo1IN_t9pWVZC8NUdpupePRPSocFGYBIyw9BT6SEXozUbaSWYK6_trR11QcASvNQtMZ0LgtGCAbQjZXByOK7FlnY2o0U1UbLdYkoMsASKGzF03tko-JfaW2jMCVY1H8Z797aN2FidRuAMqEqAwHJCLWSk1m50QVWqUnw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNF0CSTPTD1Bb5k5QP4LTduFSo1IN_t9pWVZC8NUdpupePRPSocFGYBIyw9BT6SEXozUbaSWYK6_trR11QcASvNQtMZ0LgtGCAbQjZXByOK7FlnY2o0U1UbLdYkoMsASKGzF03tko-JfaW2jMCVY1H8Z797aN2FidRuAMqEqAwHJCLWSk1m50QVWqUnw=w640-h426" title="Adult Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Thank Goodness, the Ring-billed Gulls are rarely
hybridized with other species, and are easily identified by the black ring near the tip of their bill.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw8Xp7YdGe5bUP_lhRxBZ2INrVbNrMnrCf9wNdxzv-cesIu6gibxy3_tE9zlv4BW_P800P1gl0Pho7cpEQKGTVlNmzRkCfjDUh1GGaa5S8C2xjtk1FgNjrBbOvNSfhkPXyh0rqPKUGvbox7XrKU1KxTF5b3tKwrmPsiXn6RiKzBF-KnRrAJ1WYUzzBMw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="2048" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw8Xp7YdGe5bUP_lhRxBZ2INrVbNrMnrCf9wNdxzv-cesIu6gibxy3_tE9zlv4BW_P800P1gl0Pho7cpEQKGTVlNmzRkCfjDUh1GGaa5S8C2xjtk1FgNjrBbOvNSfhkPXyh0rqPKUGvbox7XrKU1KxTF5b3tKwrmPsiXn6RiKzBF-KnRrAJ1WYUzzBMw=w640-h402" title="Sooty Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca - unalaschcensis Group)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">You would think that the chill mist and showers would
keep the passerine activity to a minimum, but we saw over 60 species total, and the passerines gave a good show.<span> </span>The locally-wintering “Sooty” Fox Sparrows
gave us especially good views.<span> </span>Our coastal Fox
Sparrows are dark chocolate brown, rather than having the reddish plumage that the “foxy”
eastern subspecies have.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIaYLwp5__2j2tP2TOdcLn_xamqTfu03JnWhApCWqLVGq7XAJWzd4OhBgIrSFg8wMnn3LPlpiCdFHqdG2aGBL-0uo3gHXEL2uDgdzUsTfYQW7RYbv0DJvSApGPGN8MziYPDgA7tV-hMP9xn0_XwCmYW2LiLiUMgthxPryeXqr9U-5uVHQQ827PHyZWeA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIaYLwp5__2j2tP2TOdcLn_xamqTfu03JnWhApCWqLVGq7XAJWzd4OhBgIrSFg8wMnn3LPlpiCdFHqdG2aGBL-0uo3gHXEL2uDgdzUsTfYQW7RYbv0DJvSApGPGN8MziYPDgA7tV-hMP9xn0_XwCmYW2LiLiUMgthxPryeXqr9U-5uVHQQ827PHyZWeA=w640-h426" title="Male Anna's Hummingbird" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Anna’s Hummingbirds were also showing off.<span> </span>Forty years ago, seeing a hummingbird in the
winter would have been unheard-of.<span> </span>But,
with the warming of the climate over the past several years, this species has expanded
its range north from its ‘stronghold’ in California, into the Willamette Valley
in the 1970s, the Puget Trough in the 1980s, and is now not that uncommon in
the lower mainland of British Columbia and all the way to <a href="https://ebird.org/ak/checklist/S96243288" target="_blank">Alaska</a>!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYLXbTe8SyQmE-Hw4Zci17bZe5XdtXBsJOwXcgatESJp4aHWzrBodwrD4jTv13Kx4kUc5xX97QZQn7WCWr6Q8zNmVRzQc6A9Y738CzEV3a51p2IoVyWE3E1B3pHNfJ2B1gkPIO_VDt3KfndzZvOyj4RMp1YLQPi1UOBMLT6xhfSKuy0EUY7ZXwvk5dUA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYLXbTe8SyQmE-Hw4Zci17bZe5XdtXBsJOwXcgatESJp4aHWzrBodwrD4jTv13Kx4kUc5xX97QZQn7WCWr6Q8zNmVRzQc6A9Y738CzEV3a51p2IoVyWE3E1B3pHNfJ2B1gkPIO_VDt3KfndzZvOyj4RMp1YLQPi1UOBMLT6xhfSKuy0EUY7ZXwvk5dUA=w640-h434" title="Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Our local Song Sparrows are likewise much darker than their
inland and eastern conspecifics.<span> </span>Besides
our resident nesting birds, we also see wintering birds from the more northern
coastal subspecies.<span> </span>One of these days, I
will make an effort to see if I can tell the several races apart.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz_XVrMa3ExM5iGUrlxT8Y4Y-tEn6Oc1ZKSCU7z6EfTbAMluk0nn3Dqc-06FDeRQNpIF3x03_unCMVuLCNBMBN5hRScIe4Afb0eOXYQzFY4ZR9lywzj4vPvNkvLxTF9fz4KNHncRGpf56znmaVIrhCKDOW1CxOypC5uZpzwasPu9698IikejKwNGIQWw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz_XVrMa3ExM5iGUrlxT8Y4Y-tEn6Oc1ZKSCU7z6EfTbAMluk0nn3Dqc-06FDeRQNpIF3x03_unCMVuLCNBMBN5hRScIe4Afb0eOXYQzFY4ZR9lywzj4vPvNkvLxTF9fz4KNHncRGpf56znmaVIrhCKDOW1CxOypC5uZpzwasPu9698IikejKwNGIQWw=w640-h426" title="Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Refuge Volunteers lead a bird walk every Wednesday, meeting
at 8 a.m. at the Visitors’ Center.<span> </span>Come join
us if you get the opportunity!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nisqually NWR eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62272645" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-28903618834335845972021-11-15T21:31:00.000-08:002021-11-15T21:31:06.356-08:00December 10, 2019 - Rustic Beauty<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwCRCQV8R1g9dZ4CQB9jJQT11XOCAkfx87t-U-kHCAUWx_xJKUikMZn8GZ4PUANwjDc8Jqll2pnkMYpWBLYoLUP7PpNC7huTGphtzXy92b2n12i0Nbni8SAAcxgdAKqgbMqxH1hi31q7z9LqhwefpzIlL2zEEH-2iYaOfJ0ihgydqyDReA7nLNjswqzA=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="960" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwCRCQV8R1g9dZ4CQB9jJQT11XOCAkfx87t-U-kHCAUWx_xJKUikMZn8GZ4PUANwjDc8Jqll2pnkMYpWBLYoLUP7PpNC7huTGphtzXy92b2n12i0Nbni8SAAcxgdAKqgbMqxH1hi31q7z9LqhwefpzIlL2zEEH-2iYaOfJ0ihgydqyDReA7nLNjswqzA=w640-h600" title="Rustic Bunting: WikiCommons photo by Alpsdake" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">When I got home from a dentist appointment, I read a post
to the <a href="https://tweetersarchives.org/2019/December/09155206%5BTweeters%5D%20Rustic%20Bunting%20at%20Cape%20Disappointment%2012-3-2019.html" target="_blank">Tweeters listserv</a> that“Christy Kuhlman found and photographed a Rustic Bunting
at Cape Disappointment on December 3rd. It was with a flock of
juncos at campsite #44.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5hRqpJ8q6xQqHYgT8BQ3ofO8WSoHOVchIUAmoV_NRaW-3QB8B0FWu14XgIvG3hzGzxXTEzZMCEpi9HshqcsbjqanqdCbBQqaGOjEAByZIAEjXqbmPNwu_YAbl7ujsrEoX7bU3hkHtBGlGQh3eRS6vsIwEJp5xg0ICPn4kffNVseMz6hIQ56OtWPfp3A=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="640" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5hRqpJ8q6xQqHYgT8BQ3ofO8WSoHOVchIUAmoV_NRaW-3QB8B0FWu14XgIvG3hzGzxXTEzZMCEpi9HshqcsbjqanqdCbBQqaGOjEAByZIAEjXqbmPNwu_YAbl7ujsrEoX7bU3hkHtBGlGQh3eRS6vsIwEJp5xg0ICPn4kffNVseMz6hIQ56OtWPfp3A=w640-h448" title="from Cornell Lab of Ornithology" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">Wow!<span> </span>A Rustic
Bunting would be a “Life Bird” for me (and would certainly keep me in the
running for remaining in the “top ten” of the number of species seen by eBirders in the American Birding
Association area this year).<span> </span>The Rustic
Bunting is an “Old World” bird, breeding across northern Eurasia from
Scandinavia to eastern Siberia, and spending its winters in Japan and eastern
China.<span> </span>Occasionally, an individual makes
the migration down the west Coast of North America, and this is one of those
birds.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgiB8xwSpomoc4KILWzwyLREzg2A41Bst-bCnU8kctR9gJeS_ARzTEMAxA5nzWrrQ22Di7tFZO_iwbP4L0o9I9iGlTOejYHdNjk-wU5hR8cpa8Cn576LHqROjpKoJ3Z_nkSnEi8g5trMtS-2mjVqd8nbMIZ6PY3J_Z_fp2nXuejmYmWGcZaNaIoXX_bg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgiB8xwSpomoc4KILWzwyLREzg2A41Bst-bCnU8kctR9gJeS_ARzTEMAxA5nzWrrQ22Di7tFZO_iwbP4L0o9I9iGlTOejYHdNjk-wU5hR8cpa8Cn576LHqROjpKoJ3Z_nkSnEi8g5trMtS-2mjVqd8nbMIZ6PY3J_Z_fp2nXuejmYmWGcZaNaIoXX_bg=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I decided to drive on down to the Cape to look for a
Rustic Bunting that had been seen there a week ago.<span> </span>There’s never assurance that a wayward bird
will stick around for a while, or if it will just be a “one-day-wonder”.<span> </span>And, the term “Cape Disappointment” can’t
bode well, can it?</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMge8C7Njublw8KIHQ-djZfHIj5bGBu4I6MQ9tZsqzuau6YLu-Ckx6NDbLscHF9lNhgVR5eMzShju9iOxKzYSKHCnLDEC5vzahNaKq2KxMiH6-ZbwaEoQQef2tcZxKJgAgkaO1w7F4CRMSHMnGOAUZ1hFfEGpb23zpaQUZRFnS6wvV0vxKJQbUDCdFGg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMge8C7Njublw8KIHQ-djZfHIj5bGBu4I6MQ9tZsqzuau6YLu-Ckx6NDbLscHF9lNhgVR5eMzShju9iOxKzYSKHCnLDEC5vzahNaKq2KxMiH6-ZbwaEoQQef2tcZxKJgAgkaO1w7F4CRMSHMnGOAUZ1hFfEGpb23zpaQUZRFnS6wvV0vxKJQbUDCdFGg=w640-h426" title="The cape was named on July 6, 1788, by British fur trader John Meares, who mistook the mouth of the Columbia River to be a bay, which the ship could not enter due to a shallow shoal. Just missing the discovery of the river mentioned by Francisco Antonio Mourelle, he named them Cape Disappointment and Deception Bay." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It’s a two and a half hour drive from Olympia to the
Cape, where the mighty Columbia River passes into the Pacific Ocean.<span> </span>The north side of the river mouth is in the
<a href="https://parks.state.wa.us/486/Cape-Disappointment" target="_blank">State Park</a>, and I arrived a little after noon.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8jYlYMFgKd3iZgasLYlo1HlDhk4JOf_3eHLa39HnycLqzt-q3SfNwoL_X0EdtIJGy1xVsoTC8gKFsNla8P5r0OJtYE4BUu1mboDsCaa7dcZCgJQ_bmnfYl1U1Qe9_LE99oZw8HDdZbDb5EqbVKpVCBhKJg2BHpU8bdTgzrEp45ju0bTmdLl9O5RBLWg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8jYlYMFgKd3iZgasLYlo1HlDhk4JOf_3eHLa39HnycLqzt-q3SfNwoL_X0EdtIJGy1xVsoTC8gKFsNla8P5r0OJtYE4BUu1mboDsCaa7dcZCgJQ_bmnfYl1U1Qe9_LE99oZw8HDdZbDb5EqbVKpVCBhKJg2BHpU8bdTgzrEp45ju0bTmdLl9O5RBLWg=w640-h426" title="Yurts in the Cape Disappointment park campground" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The bird had been seen among flocks of juncos in the
campground loops.<span> </span>There are few people
camping in the 45<span>º</span> F rain and
mist.<span> </span>Even the yurts are unoccupied.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO4rHgfZolAZOg1-AOVn3AF63HiSGBxwziQkDrMk2dHH7uElRmHvOzgknpyKOT_nzKPJ-7uyES3xqJG60TpGuYZi0ITl1SsRi-_MDbXEjclYTcwQdEqKr_hGV6m2DumZLav410jGg5oqtloAxwBDt6svnZ3RGwW_PaxUWUSENnDK10U7txU_DfXmcAgw=s1983" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1983" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO4rHgfZolAZOg1-AOVn3AF63HiSGBxwziQkDrMk2dHH7uElRmHvOzgknpyKOT_nzKPJ-7uyES3xqJG60TpGuYZi0ITl1SsRi-_MDbXEjclYTcwQdEqKr_hGV6m2DumZLav410jGg5oqtloAxwBDt6svnZ3RGwW_PaxUWUSENnDK10U7txU_DfXmcAgw=w640-h412" title="Townsend's Warbler" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">What was surprising was the birds on the ground!<span> </span>Sparrows and juncos commonly feed on the
ground, but today the park’s grounds were literally crawling with Townsend’s
Warblers, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, and Red-breasted Nuthatches.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD61U_mKTHC14OwbqFcabc4VKCgV1mBUijwPXIEfhGy7SkaTSe9Hq8UzaSSGNrUfj3eVYpca8WJaKnz_nJlzkSNED7VZWAPbTuM1845eyDsxgNs5oX2YgvPBAOU5fWwgxa4GEUKX9ncJVTq7BuFqZscgkr_XnLTZCMgEo2POWzMGf6HOmjuhBHurpLmw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD61U_mKTHC14OwbqFcabc4VKCgV1mBUijwPXIEfhGy7SkaTSe9Hq8UzaSSGNrUfj3eVYpca8WJaKnz_nJlzkSNED7VZWAPbTuM1845eyDsxgNs5oX2YgvPBAOU5fWwgxa4GEUKX9ncJVTq7BuFqZscgkr_XnLTZCMgEo2POWzMGf6HOmjuhBHurpLmw=w640-h426" title="Townsend's Warbler female foraging in Sitka Spruce boughs" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The phenology of the area’s Sitka Spruce trees<span> </span>was just right for their cones to release
millions of small, winged seeds.<span> </span>This
bounty brought the “tree-top” birds to the ground, and provided some great
views.<span> </span>Many of the birds continued to
feed in the spruce boughs, of course.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU0n2xdwRzidynsJ83B5ODwCxXFHbZDebpgrJpRz2TunoTZ0VB_JEPgHArxWzu4vWgCY2FZuOk5bnl14hUDnWLrQDQEQB68_XXcL7kTiFCrMJdc9JfjPk9Yg0UYEY9u-3jb94sqR8dxSl6RixoS2kTRKcwzeQXBNKju15OB9jcZUMHYan7ZEEsDz4dHg=s2518" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="2518" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU0n2xdwRzidynsJ83B5ODwCxXFHbZDebpgrJpRz2TunoTZ0VB_JEPgHArxWzu4vWgCY2FZuOk5bnl14hUDnWLrQDQEQB68_XXcL7kTiFCrMJdc9JfjPk9Yg0UYEY9u-3jb94sqR8dxSl6RixoS2kTRKcwzeQXBNKju15OB9jcZUMHYan7ZEEsDz4dHg=w640-h318" title="There - on the ground! The Bunting!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Finally, at 1 p.m., I observed the bird with a large
mixed flock of Oregon Juncos, Chestnut-back ed Chickadee & Townsend's Warblers
at campsite No. 118. <span> </span>The flock was
pretty 'flighty' and spooked easily, so I stayed back and let some of the other
birders in the area know that I’d found it.<span>
</span>That means that you get to see crappy, cropped photos . . . Better than nothing, yes?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuHXa0ttoD1G8xcI1exMedp1Slg53LB9KJp-a35OWCw9gUYWuT9gCph6lnuXndvWiC0CTlSH5W2wjhIH5YmjpNwUoV32wROdH1fJXSZFmJhvIK-lTPwnrqtfXY7bhYTZTGBHQ54QrDBceSlACspvYOPfnXarrY52Pm4zUQNKmFQBICUNB7C1pC20cjmw=s672" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="672" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuHXa0ttoD1G8xcI1exMedp1Slg53LB9KJp-a35OWCw9gUYWuT9gCph6lnuXndvWiC0CTlSH5W2wjhIH5YmjpNwUoV32wROdH1fJXSZFmJhvIK-lTPwnrqtfXY7bhYTZTGBHQ54QrDBceSlACspvYOPfnXarrY52Pm4zUQNKmFQBICUNB7C1pC20cjmw=w640-h408" title="Rustic Bunting - Emberiza rustica" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This bunting is distinguished by a white stripe above and
behind the eye, with white under the dark “cheek patch”.<span> </span>This bird was, indeed, a “Lifer” for me, my
662<sup>nd</sup> species in North America (north of Mexico), and the 610<sup>th</sup>
species I’d seen this year.<span> </span>I’ve now
seen 91 avian species in my “Peregrination” year that I’d never before seen,
and this bird is certainly the icing on the cake.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcAtkGpseuNlovGGwQ3-SrU5Hqe8bIfNYwdwgcmP5hxAIUanj65LH_1n_vFKlL3DbTTVxub_09nsLhhXI3LOygx6BfgHBKMujUhOXn852fIap8eofqg69Sb2Cp_WjW2ogJnWNJSgrUdq4eXc-CJ2s__-weWaEC3QnslXhI3D60kjpFbyc6BaMeY3fZIw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="2048" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcAtkGpseuNlovGGwQ3-SrU5Hqe8bIfNYwdwgcmP5hxAIUanj65LH_1n_vFKlL3DbTTVxub_09nsLhhXI3LOygx6BfgHBKMujUhOXn852fIap8eofqg69Sb2Cp_WjW2ogJnWNJSgrUdq4eXc-CJ2s__-weWaEC3QnslXhI3D60kjpFbyc6BaMeY3fZIw=w640-h378" title="Crappy shot of the bunting on the ground beneath the light coloured rock" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">At 3 p.m. the Bunting showed again at campsite No. 64.<span> </span>And those of us who re-found it alerted the
other birders.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQJFBJq00PaaAqWP2fr6x8SbHavib4hy-lY_h1gvKPZAUGq_fZVam5cK2aLKwW9hgICTRK56AwHd9QzGAA3rvsysRLx903KoAYRpR-xsdtJJq58Ucmk2DW7QLzu-vuX8bBK7j-FTCbP3JdxPaVVtR6t1NtE8STLKC2EdfbIkBXhAFyHsM6Swue1i4pZg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQJFBJq00PaaAqWP2fr6x8SbHavib4hy-lY_h1gvKPZAUGq_fZVam5cK2aLKwW9hgICTRK56AwHd9QzGAA3rvsysRLx903KoAYRpR-xsdtJJq58Ucmk2DW7QLzu-vuX8bBK7j-FTCbP3JdxPaVVtR6t1NtE8STLKC2EdfbIkBXhAFyHsM6Swue1i4pZg=w640-h426" title="On the bird!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A Portland Birder and I each *may* have scattered a bit
of birdseed to encourage site fidelity in the area . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1g6vE4pTZIHC1rSbSD-KEQZnO-6JojigmJWsqSX_YCIojI2Zefk725orvsupooJNsCP3nQXTYH5nDnj0FsIc4A2G3D4ZvSVq5RGf4BPKjJ3xLwhsZf55jrANGHIIwDEbmmFt1x5vlamjjvmpZ54B5O1n98TQgSLY7-KlmdI7mn7KpZXTPzjn8ghtZfw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1g6vE4pTZIHC1rSbSD-KEQZnO-6JojigmJWsqSX_YCIojI2Zefk725orvsupooJNsCP3nQXTYH5nDnj0FsIc4A2G3D4ZvSVq5RGf4BPKjJ3xLwhsZf55jrANGHIIwDEbmmFt1x5vlamjjvmpZ54B5O1n98TQgSLY7-KlmdI7mn7KpZXTPzjn8ghtZfw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was a day well-spent with some good birders from
Washington and Oregon.<span> </span>All involved
hoped that the bird would stay in the area to be included on the Columbia Estuary
Christmas Bird Count on December 15th.<span> </span>That
would be a great “twitch” on the Count:<span> </span>Best
of Luck!!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvRnP7SWQTLoOJ-qmSaMctnv49t6sLgbUxyd2v6uBZkBLZ7QSeH2OWPAPvjnXBPhjSCfbXhLwHSioUUe40dvycw3-cLG0HK9nMx4BmbpAGSIU3B51eGgaDUc9AAh2ZbOkL0QDhe1KBSrg-SfuWpRxR32mezoPr24WPUAhvutB_2OeO-8nmJLvC9IWc7Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvRnP7SWQTLoOJ-qmSaMctnv49t6sLgbUxyd2v6uBZkBLZ7QSeH2OWPAPvjnXBPhjSCfbXhLwHSioUUe40dvycw3-cLG0HK9nMx4BmbpAGSIU3B51eGgaDUc9AAh2ZbOkL0QDhe1KBSrg-SfuWpRxR32mezoPr24WPUAhvutB_2OeO-8nmJLvC9IWc7Q=w640-h396" title="Hermit Thrush" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Cape Disappointment State Park eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62209158" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Cape Disappointment, Washington 98624, USA46.289822400000013 -124.060431917.979588563821167 -159.2166819 74.600056236178858 -88.9041819tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-45470956000333491402021-11-06T19:42:00.001-07:002021-11-06T19:42:27.175-07:00December 9, 2019 - The Emperor's Goose<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhej7uWGZWcQzQqv0isL7QM0B3WFiw6pKhduVM7_qqD7WzH4zxmbUQGEILqc5JjJyUgh-I96TWN7cgRNLVBhiSDsX3prlWU7R4Yv7wqhJED6ZrKs-32K3DOPMCe7ePQG7k2Q0b0a2udoL6TpRtzLNFZpwNIHriYX3RRKIbEzxdlgG_KFSfAudCzK2aO9w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="2048" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhej7uWGZWcQzQqv0isL7QM0B3WFiw6pKhduVM7_qqD7WzH4zxmbUQGEILqc5JjJyUgh-I96TWN7cgRNLVBhiSDsX3prlWU7R4Yv7wqhJED6ZrKs-32K3DOPMCe7ePQG7k2Q0b0a2udoL6TpRtzLNFZpwNIHriYX3RRKIbEzxdlgG_KFSfAudCzK2aO9w=w640-h352" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was cloudy and calm and 45<span>º</span> when we got up this morning.<span>
</span>I made coffees, wished Marty a Happy Birthday, and saw her off to
work.<span> </span>Then, after finishing a bowl of
cold cereal, I drove up the Canal to Sequim, where I wanted to see if I could
find the Emperor Goose that’d been seen in the Dungeness Bay area.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhumOvMY1IBcWpcK7uh2apH0R2oVxxJ9MadQ5seDIiKHBDJcui1xeNUBi5VLaWdEoZ3tSWCY8uZnKJh3xi_Bf-CuLrxbh4X2_xps68Y2mNJafwU3NjylaZ4XPakVDW8CjsrPGwgE2C1p39BU4MtpTl2ICUuTbFBx268NPYcWBrD-gz42tQWaME3wGTrkw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhumOvMY1IBcWpcK7uh2apH0R2oVxxJ9MadQ5seDIiKHBDJcui1xeNUBi5VLaWdEoZ3tSWCY8uZnKJh3xi_Bf-CuLrxbh4X2_xps68Y2mNJafwU3NjylaZ4XPakVDW8CjsrPGwgE2C1p39BU4MtpTl2ICUuTbFBx268NPYcWBrD-gz42tQWaME3wGTrkw=w640-h426" title="Private Property at the boundary of Cline Spit Park" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d “dipped” on seeing the adult Emperor at Sauvie’s
Island a few days ago, and thought that I might try to find the young bird that's being seen up
in Clallam County.<span> </span>The eBird reports of
this northern species had been coming in sporadically from all around the Bay, so
I arbitrarily decided to start at the Clallam County Park at <a href="http://www.clallam.net/Parks/clinespit.html" target="_blank">Cline Spit</a>, where
I arrived around 10:30 in the morning.<span>
</span>The Park is a little gem that provides a view into the inner part of
Dungeness Bay. <span> </span>It’s bordered by private
property, and the landowners are adamant about letting park visitors know about
that fact.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPwS3SG65Rz4huFy2NmyHO72vbjU-MwXsQruWmZ6HHwbDYZKPQt7QBAyT4cdM7Pf-HkDegOrKWWvT2I8l-sEc8qtzsd0xLFdnZlw55hEQn-HvcfBZznuOF87nJT2IMei8uKyPB2ZktrtXzkY5bLpxU5Sb02vvfsU7y_GdXGt3IMmY0mR5cwF7ejX5bFg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2048" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPwS3SG65Rz4huFy2NmyHO72vbjU-MwXsQruWmZ6HHwbDYZKPQt7QBAyT4cdM7Pf-HkDegOrKWWvT2I8l-sEc8qtzsd0xLFdnZlw55hEQn-HvcfBZznuOF87nJT2IMei8uKyPB2ZktrtXzkY5bLpxU5Sb02vvfsU7y_GdXGt3IMmY0mR5cwF7ejX5bFg=w640-h392" title="But, it's not off-limits to the Gulls" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There are “No Trespassing” signs at the nearby <a href="http://www.clallam.net/parks/dungenesslanding.html" target="_blank">Dungeness Landing County Park</a>, as well.<span> </span>It’s sad
that the landowners have had to post their property, likely due to poor
behavior by visitors to the public property.<span>
</span>The seagulls don’t seem to care.<span>
</span>In any event, I could not find the goose from this vantage point.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5gi4ZtmcPJzwRkOdvW7xCDKZByacmUn29-WsMhAkB5zwhTMA6wcuEjF5x-oUWBlGQ11pAyNLBFxc17bJr4u_RrdmnenPRi7ivYCxILSnD0o-675viVy-AEKSd1COMs2VEssILX5CJ6XLiYz3mW7L3lJfoSGMLic_aaYMolv1j9h_SGzJb-VSNaiOWEQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5gi4ZtmcPJzwRkOdvW7xCDKZByacmUn29-WsMhAkB5zwhTMA6wcuEjF5x-oUWBlGQ11pAyNLBFxc17bJr4u_RrdmnenPRi7ivYCxILSnD0o-675viVy-AEKSd1COMs2VEssILX5CJ6XLiYz3mW7L3lJfoSGMLic_aaYMolv1j9h_SGzJb-VSNaiOWEQ=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Being unsuccessful in finding the single member of this
species known to humans in the State of Washington, I determined to walk out
the long Dungeness Spit and hope for a view from the north side of the
bay.<span> </span>On my drive over, I crossed paths
with Snohomish County birders Jon Houghton, <a href="https://blairbirding.com/2019/12/10/emperor-goose-at-dungeness-nwr/" target="_blank">Blair Bernson</a> and Cindy Bailey, who
were also looking for “The Goose”.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1BvLfH89dzeYkw2SmEOzU7uANR7wBiZqXM5iUdj44KnlQH4tZVoqIUf5xgyAmFNgDbgvwAM7GgKYHcr3zaHof2kJ3YT9MurCXzC7CkL_-QPXq-E4BJKTFGWwYR64S3e2UnWFPuGR4ZbFYJA_exCYvo-9wj3hFRKh8RnqX0lGFgnIqiouOoSoon7Xb-Q=s625" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="625" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1BvLfH89dzeYkw2SmEOzU7uANR7wBiZqXM5iUdj44KnlQH4tZVoqIUf5xgyAmFNgDbgvwAM7GgKYHcr3zaHof2kJ3YT9MurCXzC7CkL_-QPXq-E4BJKTFGWwYR64S3e2UnWFPuGR4ZbFYJA_exCYvo-9wj3hFRKh8RnqX0lGFgnIqiouOoSoon7Xb-Q=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Access to Dungeness Spit is through the <a href="https://www.clallam.net/parks/dungeness.html" target="_blank">Dungeness Recreation Area</a>, which is yet another Clallam County Park.<span> </span>Parking is at the north end of the County
property, with a half-mile trail access into the <a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/dungeness/" target="_blank">Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge </a>through the forest and down to the sand spit.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqqW6ca_DGgEYgjdn4opnf4B9jfPHyBchvNXiBWFr0WGrR1wdjY7EHlTHklkPnOZfsVSHawzfaeYCvgUHPyFG3bC6EDZ1OyFbxkcOk5c-LnqvR9q-kQs08NgKUk3cn-y2FA0oESIm_bfseSykbXJ_shIb1j95pVtO7ARdp6tH1yo35sUMlEsAcXX3D7Q=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="400" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqqW6ca_DGgEYgjdn4opnf4B9jfPHyBchvNXiBWFr0WGrR1wdjY7EHlTHklkPnOZfsVSHawzfaeYCvgUHPyFG3bC6EDZ1OyFbxkcOk5c-LnqvR9q-kQs08NgKUk3cn-y2FA0oESIm_bfseSykbXJ_shIb1j95pVtO7ARdp6tH1yo35sUMlEsAcXX3D7Q=w640-h432" title="U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service photo" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Forest Trail arrives at the beach at the west base of
Dungeness Spit, a long arm of sand and cobble stretching into the Strait of
Juan de Fuca.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTC5b08wuz9_aSrbf6EKgUegKGaXarVQi75CU8rXPhiSX65Bblo8HBYo5cgSiAD-QrGoW6IZa2bioNi5f4bPFEII-kLHaRS4CvmQi6cA80Pn2-XXSDcYO7DbW_0Y9ju4S84vgRCnyzUxygEyO4-cbrJU1Y56z8Wjk176mawFtX-sSSL3b_7e2fWS2JEQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTC5b08wuz9_aSrbf6EKgUegKGaXarVQi75CU8rXPhiSX65Bblo8HBYo5cgSiAD-QrGoW6IZa2bioNi5f4bPFEII-kLHaRS4CvmQi6cA80Pn2-XXSDcYO7DbW_0Y9ju4S84vgRCnyzUxygEyO4-cbrJU1Y56z8Wjk176mawFtX-sSSL3b_7e2fWS2JEQ=w640-h426" title="This place is For The Birds!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The “inside” of the spit is reserved as a sanctuary for
birds, leaving the outer beach on the Strait side for the public to walk out as
far as they feel comfortable; the lighthouse is 5-½ miles out.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8nSvJNtrQJ7yHL2akHu1WIeMPgFe1OeIYCGjmQ5qjdsXan84xHf5QEJFCefv3EZyZgh_BMwY1vXrdqQbCNhmUA1fRlLcePjUASG6B9Fy0HPt5LOCDmJuhSNAEVPnj8ca1BnuQmsTUEuV2R0cRlhFbkVJeuj4i7QPqxucPxjrf8lSCU8AdpW0VR6Un7w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8nSvJNtrQJ7yHL2akHu1WIeMPgFe1OeIYCGjmQ5qjdsXan84xHf5QEJFCefv3EZyZgh_BMwY1vXrdqQbCNhmUA1fRlLcePjUASG6B9Fy0HPt5LOCDmJuhSNAEVPnj8ca1BnuQmsTUEuV2R0cRlhFbkVJeuj4i7QPqxucPxjrf8lSCU8AdpW0VR6Un7w=w640-h426" title="Dunlin and Black-bellied Plover" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
<span></span>
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I set up the scope and scanned, seeing a nice flock of
Dunlin, mixed with Sanderlings and Black-bellied Plover.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOjI-ifVtdvpAjAtEYjRwfoa0XYf-rI2lfbpFMCyMcTtKWV1mYMEJVvGY-giv6qX0mr0pxuTNOqH2NXOuMB17hmEzzz1ep7sxSg9TpksvYpv6egXPhByses-CcVzlt0gS6H0LEwQhBSNXTxGr0vOoVxE7s79ERCRllef3K4Luwpiazw8hZo4ZYufvXLA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2048" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOjI-ifVtdvpAjAtEYjRwfoa0XYf-rI2lfbpFMCyMcTtKWV1mYMEJVvGY-giv6qX0mr0pxuTNOqH2NXOuMB17hmEzzz1ep7sxSg9TpksvYpv6egXPhByses-CcVzlt0gS6H0LEwQhBSNXTxGr0vOoVxE7s79ERCRllef3K4Luwpiazw8hZo4ZYufvXLA=w640-h444" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Then, improbably, I saw the goose swimming toward a
little point of gravel that was covered with hundreds of shorebirds.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKHWxBa3KMdAcW_Wys97oj5JSrNIBn04d-tG61LG5oAEwpwt2wTMYVHPVAB-nkueLmSyX9hWwRm6h7bngzPi1OW6JS4fZCajMziIJKVaEP_k7m_pgBJ5Z1s0RRMSSEzD1_W5FT7OmXLo7NxVk0KMEp8LQARgeSZqGHy7-Lbf5BwnstNl-LuCrp3duFgQ=s2552" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2552" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKHWxBa3KMdAcW_Wys97oj5JSrNIBn04d-tG61LG5oAEwpwt2wTMYVHPVAB-nkueLmSyX9hWwRm6h7bngzPi1OW6JS4fZCajMziIJKVaEP_k7m_pgBJ5Z1s0RRMSSEzD1_W5FT7OmXLo7NxVk0KMEp8LQARgeSZqGHy7-Lbf5BwnstNl-LuCrp3duFgQ=w640-h308" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It waded right up onto the cobble beach!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMMXXF1vAbH8x3FUbGZvxCG4DpP00GQzGRvRcMxcYybflv_aDX8tmVQ5GC5XyUOtIMKa1eU1kjW5TGNI-kgIutRq6WUFCBCKZ8iJAkWR6adfdqL16dnKnJ73xuyACvoRtvYiBUVYHWkxQOvNZ2GUp7WhDSo858MDN982dHoDMLr0DY8Fzxr7DLDp0ePw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1267" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMMXXF1vAbH8x3FUbGZvxCG4DpP00GQzGRvRcMxcYybflv_aDX8tmVQ5GC5XyUOtIMKa1eU1kjW5TGNI-kgIutRq6WUFCBCKZ8iJAkWR6adfdqL16dnKnJ73xuyACvoRtvYiBUVYHWkxQOvNZ2GUp7WhDSo858MDN982dHoDMLr0DY8Fzxr7DLDp0ePw=w640-h396" title="Flying Away!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I gave a quick call to Blair, and they rushed out.<span> </span>Sadly, right after I called, a float plane landed
and then took off from the Bay, and the goose flushed.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijf0C1smXle4D6i6iedxq0MtMkJ6j4araWjGkB5Ql0bT7Bp1esJLj1rN1BawkE5h-xtu-mnpCebEE6NO3AxLX6X_ErDxRo9S6RH8PUyQjOzxNeIj8YZ_qjfTWsG_8DeYBuyRfs4eoDF4BFCheWUIOlozzeTu7WQ3SA0ZZbt6QegUUIdFwyHbAOhs2_CQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijf0C1smXle4D6i6iedxq0MtMkJ6j4araWjGkB5Ql0bT7Bp1esJLj1rN1BawkE5h-xtu-mnpCebEE6NO3AxLX6X_ErDxRo9S6RH8PUyQjOzxNeIj8YZ_qjfTWsG_8DeYBuyRfs4eoDF4BFCheWUIOlozzeTu7WQ3SA0ZZbt6QegUUIdFwyHbAOhs2_CQ=w640-h366" title="Blair is looking a bit concerned" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">When they arrived at the beach, I met them with the sad
news, and we set up our spotting scopes for another look around the Bay.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYb3_QdyqV-ohvqwZjfixbmQQ_uFOWP3kfO3RHEl9A14RRH4pj1W7yskMzqZZ8cY_RkQR-OxD63v7Z4gwi4JbG4EymwBkUMwKoEmQjYZV2ujLAvJwiIA-lfEoWSxFFZtMyWkZ7ez9cb63iZBUuEWQfIr3dEJ474bA3HdKylHgIxExa04Zg7dHN3-AGg=s1362" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1362" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYb3_QdyqV-ohvqwZjfixbmQQ_uFOWP3kfO3RHEl9A14RRH4pj1W7yskMzqZZ8cY_RkQR-OxD63v7Z4gwi4JbG4EymwBkUMwKoEmQjYZV2ujLAvJwiIA-lfEoWSxFFZtMyWkZ7ez9cb63iZBUuEWQfIr3dEJ474bA3HdKylHgIxExa04Zg7dHN3-AGg=w640-h450" title="The Emperor Returns!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Again improbably, the goose had returned to land just
south of the sand spit, and swam toward us!<span>
</span>All of us had great views of this bird.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://wos.org/records/" target="_blank">Washington Bird Records Committee</a> Member Ryan Merrill
noted that there were certainly records prior to the “first” in ’99.<span> </span>But the species has been seen much less
frequently in recent years, so that it now needs to be documented.<span> </span>This is only the 14th occurrence of Emperor
Goose in Washington, since the Committee first added the species to the State’s
Checklist in 1999. <span> </span>It is also the first
time I’d seen one since the late 1980s, when one spent the winter in the
Willamette Valley.<span> </span>Interestingly, the
Emperor Goose is not a species that is even on the “<a href="https://oregonbirding.org/oregon-bird-records-committee/" target="_blank">Review List</a>” for birders in
Oregon!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGejN3_exxazBsY0TKQReP2hURRtFdHui9dQKd2ECkznN9_6s6uXRfJ1Baai5IbMoYyINPess-b2WSeYPArgbjpThYqHYV0w-sy2Lypmvdeo7N8Hzafa_x_51NT8VSjVbUVY12dhfJ8zBuejVT2GOCjCr3UJxX2WLX9QglV9A-oMTaBhSne781nd34UA=s1332" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1332" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGejN3_exxazBsY0TKQReP2hURRtFdHui9dQKd2ECkznN9_6s6uXRfJ1Baai5IbMoYyINPess-b2WSeYPArgbjpThYqHYV0w-sy2Lypmvdeo7N8Hzafa_x_51NT8VSjVbUVY12dhfJ8zBuejVT2GOCjCr3UJxX2WLX9QglV9A-oMTaBhSne781nd34UA=w640-h394" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This is an immature bird, obviously moulting into its
“pre-formative”, or adult, plumage.<span> </span>The
feathering of the head will become bright white, and the body feathering will
turn more ‘solid’, and the bill will turn solid pink.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbZgJAKU0IWnBcj9jzO6vj8641wMKaPgvWqQhw8ozyiZSWMTcgUmUXaQcP2qgXGQ7CqT8_-RmqzLfjW6IN-WdJbzi9EGFUT0jSGXH5I6yO0vYOgL2uWZDSuPt7G9t0DbuC_ExPOerDSC4npJDaqiLMEoj7J0407JmmY2qSaK-pA7r1jtm8TwTmsMG_Ww=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbZgJAKU0IWnBcj9jzO6vj8641wMKaPgvWqQhw8ozyiZSWMTcgUmUXaQcP2qgXGQ7CqT8_-RmqzLfjW6IN-WdJbzi9EGFUT0jSGXH5I6yO0vYOgL2uWZDSuPt7G9t0DbuC_ExPOerDSC4npJDaqiLMEoj7J0407JmmY2qSaK-pA7r1jtm8TwTmsMG_Ww=w640-h426" title="The Three Crabs was torn down in 2013" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">With success on finding the Goose achieved, Blair et al. and
I took our leave of the Dungeness spit.<span> </span>I
stopped at the Old Three Crabs site.<span>
</span>This used to be a great little tourist stop on the Peninsula back in the
day, after the restaurant was built in 1958.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2f8h2e9jfVySg6sIkuaRfWirkM7CtOQrQFpDV0AMFgUEMJPhX0XRS2zYSmMROaOMRLt3WPDQs39NIKOt0ToITPpDDBzrcYu3TvysqrHxhd84JYhs3c8uxEKYxr3_T81Mdgp4VxiXyuasOqt5u4H6bCrT5QKfrWIjNWFSLVO-49wpWPzHKhXDRqELb7g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="2048" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2f8h2e9jfVySg6sIkuaRfWirkM7CtOQrQFpDV0AMFgUEMJPhX0XRS2zYSmMROaOMRLt3WPDQs39NIKOt0ToITPpDDBzrcYu3TvysqrHxhd84JYhs3c8uxEKYxr3_T81Mdgp4VxiXyuasOqt5u4H6bCrT5QKfrWIjNWFSLVO-49wpWPzHKhXDRqELb7g=w640-h352" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The restaurant and property was sold to the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2012, who razed the building, pulled the septic
tanks, and partnered with <a href="https://nosc.org/" target="_blank">local conservation groups</a> to restore the shoreline
and estuary. <span> </span>This project improved salmon
and steelhead access to valuable estuarine and off-channel habitat by enhancing
and stabilizing the connection between Meadowbrook Creek and the mainstem of
the Dungeness River. <span> </span>This work was part
of the continuing effort to <a href="https://salishsearestoration.org/wiki/Three_Crabs_Restoration" target="_blank">restore the floodplain and estuarine habitat</a> of the
lower Dungeness River, and increase available rearing and transitional habitat
for salmonids.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXEXHyIB4eZuOkG9c10r23A4t-_oXNSHtOGEAh43YCLqzYtKUmW0_cFTDKHTvS5Rr1Cp-k0s6hImXnpo9fHcrg9-emJ9bpPjYSOIx_bU-SvrKJaiN7FCnH134pZxoKnFNTVx5IlilqKOVl53HhoPzMTykCUul18GV2ZtyLXMO2X18VQrZkMNpa4P39EA=s1033" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1033" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXEXHyIB4eZuOkG9c10r23A4t-_oXNSHtOGEAh43YCLqzYtKUmW0_cFTDKHTvS5Rr1Cp-k0s6hImXnpo9fHcrg9-emJ9bpPjYSOIx_bU-SvrKJaiN7FCnH134pZxoKnFNTVx5IlilqKOVl53HhoPzMTykCUul18GV2ZtyLXMO2X18VQrZkMNpa4P39EA=w640-h434" title="Hen Eurasian Wigeon - Mareca penelope" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There weren’t a lot of birds there when I stopped in the
late afternoon, but this is one of the easiest places to see Eurasian Wigeon
mixed in the flocks of American Wigeon.<span> </span>Even
with only 45 wigeon in attendance, I got a crappy picture of the female
Eurasian, which has a russet face, rather than the gray face of the Americans.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwtyMqKXRD0b6o3qDwfh-Ol1ySfjogClOF_2GpAFuNaOC5GNo2iJ1D0P0FAvZKC4SFEy82bweCWOBm2QTfJe_Lm-VMd3H4tYiRhUypcu4Tc-24ZjlLDSQQ_zCUQbNnjrbKAuBnlgZIrzhdYQ_-2TVHJtxlJPjPbQqTSDhqK1SLmSfgQ8CkI9f8qst4Tg=s1362" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1362" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwtyMqKXRD0b6o3qDwfh-Ol1ySfjogClOF_2GpAFuNaOC5GNo2iJ1D0P0FAvZKC4SFEy82bweCWOBm2QTfJe_Lm-VMd3H4tYiRhUypcu4Tc-24ZjlLDSQQ_zCUQbNnjrbKAuBnlgZIrzhdYQ_-2TVHJtxlJPjPbQqTSDhqK1SLmSfgQ8CkI9f8qst4Tg=w640-h450" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a great day. The Emperor Goose was the 609<sup>th</sup>
Species I’ve
seen this year, and I’m still in contention to finish in the “top ten”
of the
eBirders in the American Birding Association area. Now, I had to go
home and make it up to Marty for my going Bird-watching on her Birthday .
. . </span></span></span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaoK1cBWEg7nVypZDM5BsVt_3eW1H1xdlYM02KAIfzdO9mUHZJGb22DBbGEzrSBfs7Vd4O4sihUX7JIBb_Jv0Z5CwpwzOwZteuXHrZrDDixNRK2m8eXPDwVx-zZb5GJij9ovaVsJYp4RHMr-iXJ_8th9YijaJkdrUJSotd_EXoHYSraDBLVc8daH86UQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaoK1cBWEg7nVypZDM5BsVt_3eW1H1xdlYM02KAIfzdO9mUHZJGb22DBbGEzrSBfs7Vd4O4sihUX7JIBb_Jv0Z5CwpwzOwZteuXHrZrDDixNRK2m8eXPDwVx-zZb5GJij9ovaVsJYp4RHMr-iXJ_8th9YijaJkdrUJSotd_EXoHYSraDBLVc8daH86UQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Cline Spit eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62177239" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
<span></span>
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Oyster House eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62178675" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dungeness Forest Trail eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62181864" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dungeness Spit eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62181858" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Three Crabs eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62183059" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Dungeness Wildlife Refuge, 554 Voice of America Rd W, Sequim, WA 98382, USA48.1418039 -123.19087042.3205262088695022 166.4966296 90 -52.878370399999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-9883919013288603452021-11-04T10:51:00.001-07:002021-11-04T10:51:13.018-07:00December 8, 2019 - Black AF Scoter<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghd9301-FRJCg_-Pz6oHxgcpv2ubZ4h37tsmBzVQjTQ7qL-wsY_NERA7enVOeznWsk00t4Nc6cx6REbxh7Gl-fP-VSlHf89senZHjY65W-zPl4Rqe8RtnSzR5vC7vrXOYiocdBghXtN0_xK06n_RYbgNmRKexxV6gcA7oaXulCXD5ookKgat-YXpydnQ=s488" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="488" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghd9301-FRJCg_-Pz6oHxgcpv2ubZ4h37tsmBzVQjTQ7qL-wsY_NERA7enVOeznWsk00t4Nc6cx6REbxh7Gl-fP-VSlHf89senZHjY65W-zPl4Rqe8RtnSzR5vC7vrXOYiocdBghXtN0_xK06n_RYbgNmRKexxV6gcA7oaXulCXD5ookKgat-YXpydnQ=w640-h388" title="My crappy photo of a female Black Scoter from 2017" width="640" /></a></span></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was raining lightly and 48<span>º</span> when I got up around 6:45 a.m.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I had been going over my birding records, and just
realized that I hadn’t “twitched” a Black Scoter for the year (!).<span> </span>Now that I’m attempting to “compete” with a
few other birders across the country to remain in the eBird “Top Ten” for the
number of species seen this year, I need to pick up a few species that I
missed.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlPJrYQ8RiLO0VnJ48rV20ghpvsov3ed427GLMX-m8hxpqDz6CHHbs2jLoUqdhqnyI4etsZSOZsjoijPFw3WKJAO3p4rAFklfJH3suP8ECMW0FjpFXIxFotZEpEx2hIOkmcedq9NqdXnfMV6xFkezOYCWo71fZ_vuDnQb5cejP1BMsXOlvr9pNv9Zk8Q=s1949" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1949" data-original-width="1719" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlPJrYQ8RiLO0VnJ48rV20ghpvsov3ed427GLMX-m8hxpqDz6CHHbs2jLoUqdhqnyI4etsZSOZsjoijPFw3WKJAO3p4rAFklfJH3suP8ECMW0FjpFXIxFotZEpEx2hIOkmcedq9NqdXnfMV6xFkezOYCWo71fZ_vuDnQb5cejP1BMsXOlvr9pNv9Zk8Q=w564-h640" title="Glaucous-winged Gull at Twanoh State Park? Not quite - the darker primaries and mantle color indicate some introgression from Western Gull genetics. These get called "Olympic" gull hybrids on eBird" width="564" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">All right.<span> </span>I don’t
<i>need</i> to see these birds.<span> </span>But, as
long as I’m enjoying Birding as a fun hobby, it would be fun to see the
species.<span> </span>So, I decided this afternoon to
drive north to Manchester State Park on the Kitsap Peninsula.<span> </span>There is usually a moderately large flock of Scoters
that winter in the Rich Passage between there and Bainbridge Island, and I
should be able to pick out a few Black Scoters from among the numerous Surf
Scoters.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSSEekJ4QBrSZlgIyG7bh8yIt9Jnu9MsEETOBScdeDFM4IOcdzqbJ9xFtemecTcotzIz0ExnxoyvIpouBZ0DWYATBQxBI6-9cdj3IcbZE2DBUMFn7Rr3vLfmMeCk8T-k98aY4U79at95L7Ox_U3JV4ngDj7X50TTD3VXcJkAoXCg6BGnkNQftHmAIEOA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSSEekJ4QBrSZlgIyG7bh8yIt9Jnu9MsEETOBScdeDFM4IOcdzqbJ9xFtemecTcotzIz0ExnxoyvIpouBZ0DWYATBQxBI6-9cdj3IcbZE2DBUMFn7Rr3vLfmMeCk8T-k98aY4U79at95L7Ox_U3JV4ngDj7X50TTD3VXcJkAoXCg6BGnkNQftHmAIEOA=w640-h350" title="Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I drove up to Hood Canal, making a quick stop at <a href="https://parks.state.wa.us/294/Twanoh" target="_blank">Twanoh State Park</a> to scope the calm water along the park’s 3,200-foot shoreline.<span> </span>Winter is always a good time to view Barrow’s
Goldeneye here.<span> </span>These birds can be told
from the Common Goldeneye by the crescent-shaped, rather than round, patch at
the base of the drake’s bill.<span> </span>The female
in mid-winter has a bright yellow bill rather than a mostly-dark one.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu73Fpm-EVqXWmN8z1aUJmdceLmsBi0oKKYjwvuMMM72flWl5C8x792tTpLQZvptp6vy4tHxDzYj1bl1p-VuV4MUfpVSp3jhLbHkN4surVVTkn47ny64XAKtxzjlwkQ_MfCiik3czK2bMRGsgLncrlRRj5QMRPhcgsyAl-OkPNC-Mq8DGj58ZQcOgPtg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu73Fpm-EVqXWmN8z1aUJmdceLmsBi0oKKYjwvuMMM72flWl5C8x792tTpLQZvptp6vy4tHxDzYj1bl1p-VuV4MUfpVSp3jhLbHkN4surVVTkn47ny64XAKtxzjlwkQ_MfCiik3czK2bMRGsgLncrlRRj5QMRPhcgsyAl-OkPNC-Mq8DGj58ZQcOgPtg=w640-h426" title="Spawned-out Chum salmon carcasses in Twanoh Creek" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Twanoh Creek flows through the park, and gets hundreds or
thousands of chum salmon (<i>Oncorhynchus keta</i>) returning to spawn annually.<span> </span>The fall run peaks in the stream in
mid-November, and at this time of year, there is little to be seen besides the
spawned-out carcasses.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyRHXcGDzGKtRacGI-4kWvGdANJxjCHC09yb2gVtbAOeLjcx2x6UPlqZfWwxyHBropfF7QgYJxuz2z_B04wraImZvy8VvM-iNbp9AUVgS3_aAi6VDdyWepwsKfLAopaP4-1xfr3tWo1vr3gRwIzntPJDE6wXTknmGi8SztdARd9lOkQGDxBts6WwcKHw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyRHXcGDzGKtRacGI-4kWvGdANJxjCHC09yb2gVtbAOeLjcx2x6UPlqZfWwxyHBropfF7QgYJxuz2z_B04wraImZvy8VvM-iNbp9AUVgS3_aAi6VDdyWepwsKfLAopaP4-1xfr3tWo1vr3gRwIzntPJDE6wXTknmGi8SztdARd9lOkQGDxBts6WwcKHw=w640-h426" title="Spawned-out Chum salmon carcasses in Twanoh Creek" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Each hen salmon will lay about 2,500-3,000 eggs, which
hatch out the following March.<span> </span>The young
fry move toward the salt water within a month of hatching to begin feeding and
growing for 3 or 4 years in the Pacific Ocean, when they return to begin the
cycle again.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl0JVtM1R3WC8YFM3jUdx3N9N9lLhKsv7l8ivmEKam3q2lo61XmhmOCqZNw8pN7HzdRdEPb7riPHAXnj3rYiIHc573FCTctJ2ICcrtTYNvsOGcgI7HBNroFs0sEMzPNtooF10Dx47Gu5cqCywqjq20r5wXeZGceV01zy4EdASAaFp3ukNS9Eh7JfkkEg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl0JVtM1R3WC8YFM3jUdx3N9N9lLhKsv7l8ivmEKam3q2lo61XmhmOCqZNw8pN7HzdRdEPb7riPHAXnj3rYiIHc573FCTctJ2ICcrtTYNvsOGcgI7HBNroFs0sEMzPNtooF10Dx47Gu5cqCywqjq20r5wXeZGceV01zy4EdASAaFp3ukNS9Eh7JfkkEg=w426-h640" title="Don't walk on the salmon redds!" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The sign here cautions people to not walk in the stream
and crush the live salmon eggs buried in the gravel. Leaving the park, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I made a quick stop in Port Orchard to check out the
water birds from Etta Turner Park, and finally arrived at Manchester State Park
at 3 p.m.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcGws4NUmlToJVxzfVs8xMnlIjLBugC0Cn9MvXO5u8SaXh9X7XGVlBDSg_wpgiDBA_LwlYpPBwzhAfNCggKYypEje_ELVLsuFN82UJ7w-u0Yo8xbq36x6FfmLkDBEX7PVkzmYmeM0jKtYZEQ_SbR3plOJDTmGXgYshwEgfekNL7AGNpW52zWqErWkSow=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcGws4NUmlToJVxzfVs8xMnlIjLBugC0Cn9MvXO5u8SaXh9X7XGVlBDSg_wpgiDBA_LwlYpPBwzhAfNCggKYypEje_ELVLsuFN82UJ7w-u0Yo8xbq36x6FfmLkDBEX7PVkzmYmeM0jKtYZEQ_SbR3plOJDTmGXgYshwEgfekNL7AGNpW52zWqErWkSow=w640-h426" title="Kaleetan is a Chinook Jargon word meaning “Arrow”." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The
M/V Kaleetan is one of the Washington State Ferries, and can carry up to 144
cars, seen here on the route from Bainbridge
Island to Seattle and back. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Having only an hour of good
light left, I walked out to the point and scoped the birds in Rich Passage
until the “sunlight” faded from the sky. <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The area once called Middle Point, now <a href="https://parks.state.wa.us/542/Manchester" target="_blank">Manchester State Park</a>, was established in 1900 as a satellite to Fort Ward which is located on
Bainbridge Island across Rich Passage. It was created to protect the Bremerton
shipyards by operating a minefield in Rich Passage.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNDIh1XFRhV_iy7IKdKuus0tsBllKZUNw23LNxuuHkoPJVYrKpSWsZ-AiTewQTQKuwYJ_PVOLQAufR5fnK3zmPqncKOEMdEgukCkimAOdn9DzLL57d4Hpsp_8qjTvNKgcckzrZb9ZsKdAoWGrEDtR5tmC1BGSWGQ56HETGPdA7885EXbbKvx-75HiSoQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNDIh1XFRhV_iy7IKdKuus0tsBllKZUNw23LNxuuHkoPJVYrKpSWsZ-AiTewQTQKuwYJ_PVOLQAufR5fnK3zmPqncKOEMdEgukCkimAOdn9DzLL57d4Hpsp_8qjTvNKgcckzrZb9ZsKdAoWGrEDtR5tmC1BGSWGQ56HETGPdA7885EXbbKvx-75HiSoQ=w640-h426" title="Middle Point gun emplacements" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The U.S. Navy operated Middle Point until 1958, when it
was decommissioned.<span> </span>A number of gun
emplacements were planned throughout Puget Sound to protect the fleets and
shipping from our several enemies.<span>
</span>Spanish.<span> </span>Imperial Russian.<span> </span>Japanese.<span>
</span>Take your pick.<span> </span>Gun Battery
Mitchell remains, having never been fitted for the 3-inch rapid fire rifles at
the center of its design.<span> </span>In fact, the
guns were never delivered.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Most of the Scoters were on the Fort Ward side . . . ‘way
too far off for photos.<span> </span>But after
staring through the spotting scope at the little black specks on the other side
of the Passage, I finally got views of a couple Black Scoter drakes, with
little orange knobs at the base of their bills, and a female with a pale ‘cheek
patch’.<span> </span>You’ll have to take my word for
it . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was a crappy view, but was the <span style="color: red;">608<sup>th</sup>
species</span> I’ve seen this year.<br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span>
</p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Skokomish Delta eBird Checklist is
<a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62153468" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
<span></span>
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Twanoh State Park eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62154630" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Etta Turner Park eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62156303" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Manchester State Park eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62158350" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Manchester State Park, 7767 E Hilldale Rd, Port Orchard, WA 98366, USA47.5761032 -122.550397819.265869363821153 -157.70664779999998 75.886337036178844 -87.3941478tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-12081493047254664522021-10-31T13:21:00.004-07:002021-10-31T13:21:49.430-07:00December 6, 2019 - Capitol Lake Traverse<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It was 44<span>º</span>
F and foggy when I took my CrossTrek to <a href="https://tumwaterautomotive.com/" target="_blank">Tumwater Automotive</a> at 8:30 for
maintenance.<span> </span>Since I had a while before
the auto work would be finished, I had the rest of the morning to do some
birding.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtyQEsTtxAr_wHWNUv4GYjmSwsclR-FHixf0FsBLdMFevSQ_2Lbh7jyoRFelrCl6EMHfmalF9zuWph0Dq1FB7MlZn7nFojjlBhyS33wAaJnQOhCUN0OqKpYdthSGPY4CB-BRaPmSAuwwgVE9_7EuEuNGt8B0FKvVv7hpgkpznjF7_Zo8a-o24o_MhMBA=s1130" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1130" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtyQEsTtxAr_wHWNUv4GYjmSwsclR-FHixf0FsBLdMFevSQ_2Lbh7jyoRFelrCl6EMHfmalF9zuWph0Dq1FB7MlZn7nFojjlBhyS33wAaJnQOhCUN0OqKpYdthSGPY4CB-BRaPmSAuwwgVE9_7EuEuNGt8B0FKvVv7hpgkpznjF7_Zo8a-o24o_MhMBA=w640-h552" title="Carlyon Bridge" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I walked down Capitol Boulevard toward Tumwater Falls
Park, and as I got even with the historical Carlyon Bridge on “Old 99”, I heard
a Black Phoebe vocalizing from near the river.<span>
</span>I finally got a view of the bird, but it stayed behind the alder limbs
and I didn’t have the opportunity to get a photo before it quit calling and
foraging, and I lost sight of it.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5NcZ-lIQeqhu-yQumsuNRiy1Wws5eMml7afXCp-fAZ72N4MAXFlzj_JK4hGSIwWyzA15vgwHonpxEZrOMou5vYF38g3M5caQ9HJhgj9Zjvk0CALTVgoT7qmM24OXfHSTTucvSwyKphhRy_HPdI9tb1fIQsCBdhVdsUyDKmHNLhKqGZb51rWI7DUko9w=s525" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="525" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5NcZ-lIQeqhu-yQumsuNRiy1Wws5eMml7afXCp-fAZ72N4MAXFlzj_JK4hGSIwWyzA15vgwHonpxEZrOMou5vYF38g3M5caQ9HJhgj9Zjvk0CALTVgoT7qmM24OXfHSTTucvSwyKphhRy_HPdI9tb1fIQsCBdhVdsUyDKmHNLhKqGZb51rWI7DUko9w=w640-h424" title="One of my photos of a Black Phoebe from a couple of years ago" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Black Phoebe is a fairly recent addition to
Washington’s avifauna, with the first “official” record coming in 1980 over at
the Coast in Moclips.<span> </span>Since then, the
species has expanded its range north from its ‘stronghold’ in California and
southern Oregon to the point it was dropped from the “Review List” of the
Washington Bird Records Committee in 2011.<span>
</span>A pair of these Phoebes was regularly seen at the nearby Hawks Prairie
settling ponds from 2011 to 2018, and was suspected of breeding there.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjF_b6VjAnR7SSPtc1IpxpmyoW2VtUZtaXV6qz6pxU2PzTFbd9kA9QCuOALU00uDbZP1_a9ulw9xSVQBUHQHVn2maAj9y9MvPZCkghIoVIhEuh0fVt3hYSq7hO_GWMwerrEj5IehUa63r9lPB2-5-IVB3xu9h_XadovT4e2pKE0np4ZGg6TV2JsMe6Q7A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="2048" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjF_b6VjAnR7SSPtc1IpxpmyoW2VtUZtaXV6qz6pxU2PzTFbd9kA9QCuOALU00uDbZP1_a9ulw9xSVQBUHQHVn2maAj9y9MvPZCkghIoVIhEuh0fVt3hYSq7hO_GWMwerrEj5IehUa63r9lPB2-5-IVB3xu9h_XadovT4e2pKE0np4ZGg6TV2JsMe6Q7A=w640-h414" title="Tumwater Falls" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I let a few of the Olympia birders know about the Phoebe,
and birded my way through Tumwater Falls and Tumwater Heritage parks, and along
Capitol Lake to downtown Olympia.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9SSi7XVp-jPxjk8pKlQngaCyPzevn70mRTjoP1f3UDJdFrITTdRz5RyjYvQ_4e8qO8MWraP3o1kyyHzN14_-PrmLx-4jPil0rs9bry1tccscLRY5A-ToyBPlsD7oJ6-t2Awg0b8DmA5KTId2Z7s1B5EkRHkLno-JMnXMhlsdnXdgYmOBPIzS2MHPvpQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9SSi7XVp-jPxjk8pKlQngaCyPzevn70mRTjoP1f3UDJdFrITTdRz5RyjYvQ_4e8qO8MWraP3o1kyyHzN14_-PrmLx-4jPil0rs9bry1tccscLRY5A-ToyBPlsD7oJ6-t2Awg0b8DmA5KTId2Z7s1B5EkRHkLno-JMnXMhlsdnXdgYmOBPIzS2MHPvpQ=w640-h426" title="Rock Art" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Olympia Tumwater Foundation has developed a <a href="https://olytumfoundation.org/what-we-do/tumwater-falls-park/salish-native-plant-garden/" target="_blank">Native Plant Garden</a> at Tumwater Falls Park in association with the local tribes.<span>
</span>Along with the plants, there is representation of ‘aboriginal art’.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM3cSM8dX7ShuYen9c3xpdXScyYg6KDFqck6tewnUYe_4aQlbGkEsXBA1CqHuNqR5XMNZHQSTYv2tcbZGHwHqWNRxSd0mt06Je4DyViS2Foh7nKT03qCTwD6PtzQMn6qHlhMpDAhwE37ykwDesO-L9MM601oYaFpoCj0xP39yxuDUIMsUEPeVq140IwA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM3cSM8dX7ShuYen9c3xpdXScyYg6KDFqck6tewnUYe_4aQlbGkEsXBA1CqHuNqR5XMNZHQSTYv2tcbZGHwHqWNRxSd0mt06Je4DyViS2Foh7nKT03qCTwD6PtzQMn6qHlhMpDAhwE37ykwDesO-L9MM601oYaFpoCj0xP39yxuDUIMsUEPeVq140IwA=w640-h426" title="Locking In The Love . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There’s a “culture” of couples who place a padlock on
fences, tree branches, etc. to proclaim their love for one another.<span> </span>An off-the-main-trail spot at the upper falls
at Tumwater Falls Park is festooned with dozens (hundreds?) of these
locks.<span> </span>I can only wish them all the best
and hope that the Love expressed here has lasted as long as some of the
hardware.<span> </span>Of course, there are always
those who <a href="https://thelovelockproject.org/stop-love-locks/" target="_blank">Don’t See The Love</a> . . . </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivoQoTJRkiKJ8hV-nFrJ7exeCjiCBi3wFQ2KopUPHyaWNqfrEsy5bK2S38m6Zb175OqRBwvnjtgaeDFr6O8Atw0JSjTdwIDE6R55jNj48CDsIh-n7_IUt_witrQQPXay1Y4bYZfdNtW_PHM6ucWubOjDC-hotXlTfLGzHrUM-NWAR3I30cmxOJuVr1Nw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="2048" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivoQoTJRkiKJ8hV-nFrJ7exeCjiCBi3wFQ2KopUPHyaWNqfrEsy5bK2S38m6Zb175OqRBwvnjtgaeDFr6O8Atw0JSjTdwIDE6R55jNj48CDsIh-n7_IUt_witrQQPXay1Y4bYZfdNtW_PHM6ucWubOjDC-hotXlTfLGzHrUM-NWAR3I30cmxOJuVr1Nw=w640-h372" title=""Water Ouzel" (Cinclus mexicanus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">One of the reasons that Tumwater Falls attracts birders
is that it is one of the easiest places around to “twitch” an American
Dipper.<span> </span>The birds nest near or
underneath waterfalls, building moss nests that are constantly damp, but they
seem to fare well here.<span> </span>The birds wade
along the water’s edge, and often surprise new birders by swimming out into the
current or just stepping underwater to hunt their prey of aquatic insects, fish
eggs, and the like.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibQR7m0e0FOO2--fAyYoY9JO4uIAr7NQLJNUzFTjwrRftVdKChFRnQ2m3ZIuQseqEbjbMT-sPbUDa8h5u3QDMk0KZcFy0wm_gUKqj-Yv3B4M1sQdaGyQ2BY4JAOAPEmPmnNLsFB8plB87b0N79OzTeiYtwICGQoXZFvVjzvf5Bi-EgmfZGNV9e_50ZvA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibQR7m0e0FOO2--fAyYoY9JO4uIAr7NQLJNUzFTjwrRftVdKChFRnQ2m3ZIuQseqEbjbMT-sPbUDa8h5u3QDMk0KZcFy0wm_gUKqj-Yv3B4M1sQdaGyQ2BY4JAOAPEmPmnNLsFB8plB87b0N79OzTeiYtwICGQoXZFvVjzvf5Bi-EgmfZGNV9e_50ZvA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As I walked along the path above the Deschutes River, I
noticed an odd shape floating in the water and presumed it was a piece of trash
washed in from upstream.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwnQKmfay6Numkp48EPe4o0sWMFbup7iFE8GjXUS1TD-CSweyQn5xsXdvuidGc4UnNwKA-bHT93aXIRJiDl_diMOIMQz3AHkPxlQOrH34U1BjTGBnmg4KDeS7tDKX8SF1JEVo_2zXotjeIN-eCnoCloH3euj82sFC6ULezjEOXnEsYNBk4HH_YRKgNeg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="2048" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwnQKmfay6Numkp48EPe4o0sWMFbup7iFE8GjXUS1TD-CSweyQn5xsXdvuidGc4UnNwKA-bHT93aXIRJiDl_diMOIMQz3AHkPxlQOrH34U1BjTGBnmg4KDeS7tDKX8SF1JEVo_2zXotjeIN-eCnoCloH3euj82sFC6ULezjEOXnEsYNBk4HH_YRKgNeg=w640-h442" title="Foam Art . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Closer inspection, though, revealed that it was a cup-shaped ball of
foam.<span> </span>Foam is a natural phenomenon that
occurs on many streams, produced when molecules such as fatty acids act as
'surfactants', interfering with the surface tension of water and allowing air
and water to mix more easily. These molecules often float on the surface of the
water as a thin film.<span> </span>The action of the
waterfall froths the organics in the water, producing the foam.<span> </span>This can be a natural event with no adverse
environmental implications; alternatively this can be a sign of pollution and
high phosphorous levels.<span> </span>In any event,
it was a curious effect.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPDWkNUU4kovzRpStMWQTySjLYaMdsiYRt5KT9yVVyOpjb0GbKTivZWxKGdNHZow3Ie8pGxI88-y2mgYiAazXHvSuiqTRIylPX4-DtIyVg44nSLKVmNYfkrRKzc2e79aXF6XgCv-PaHCT3LUY3VOz9Tc7RVxXjBl7Oaq68Yc7zAQDYRlyrv6r3P6Rhmg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPDWkNUU4kovzRpStMWQTySjLYaMdsiYRt5KT9yVVyOpjb0GbKTivZWxKGdNHZow3Ie8pGxI88-y2mgYiAazXHvSuiqTRIylPX4-DtIyVg44nSLKVmNYfkrRKzc2e79aXF6XgCv-PaHCT3LUY3VOz9Tc7RVxXjBl7Oaq68Yc7zAQDYRlyrv6r3P6Rhmg=w640-h426" title="The Old Olympia Brewery undergoing repairs" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Traversing from the Tumwater Falls Park to the City of
Lacey’s Tumwater Historical Park, you pass by the “<a href="https://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/about-tumwater/history/saving-the-old-brewhouse" target="_blank">Old Olympia Brewhouse</a>”,
which is in the process of being renovated.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb02x_Yh3dtbkTc12NsTH-C-5y-TCM-dZAlrm31dfm-xr4CXXBzSsaOmEbXC6maNY9LiU3UjKMCS5yx-BNh8oJBtI-1pBkogQbOpwasrYZtbRMUWwhxHp5zRMp0NQENEeGz_ll42jQKoklsdMv3UdbM_7BUig47LyZHG6yOZzTUyXjaISQacrwYbQkPw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb02x_Yh3dtbkTc12NsTH-C-5y-TCM-dZAlrm31dfm-xr4CXXBzSsaOmEbXC6maNY9LiU3UjKMCS5yx-BNh8oJBtI-1pBkogQbOpwasrYZtbRMUWwhxHp5zRMp0NQENEeGz_ll42jQKoklsdMv3UdbM_7BUig47LyZHG6yOZzTUyXjaISQacrwYbQkPw=w640-h396" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This structure was built in 1906, but had deteriorated
pretty badly.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmWpmMOh0BzqOce62Y4mWRCvB-rPVjtvq76W1H48fEw_kHctEmh_XXnF-1_GOwwCgabNLT_7M2ax3YyfbFNQhzRP1PrvNoeF2shoH-PmAC3ojcHzPJC3FjQ4d5DWilcEZs2XTVY7KW7B4uqg7yj6BDcvSBH0ab7TaS2nILutkq5xBiidMsAa4EwxdaMQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmWpmMOh0BzqOce62Y4mWRCvB-rPVjtvq76W1H48fEw_kHctEmh_XXnF-1_GOwwCgabNLT_7M2ax3YyfbFNQhzRP1PrvNoeF2shoH-PmAC3ojcHzPJC3FjQ4d5DWilcEZs2XTVY7KW7B4uqg7yj6BDcvSBH0ab7TaS2nILutkq5xBiidMsAa4EwxdaMQ=w640-h384" title="A pair of Scaup ducks at the head of what used to be an Estuary" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Historical Park is situated at what used to be the
southernmost extent of “Puget Sound”, before the estuary was turned into a
reservoir in 1951 when a dam was built across the mouth of the river to create
a “Reflecting Pool”.<span> </span>Perhaps some day in
the future, the <a href="https://capitollakedeschutesestuaryeis.org/project" target="_blank">Estuary can be Restored</a> . . .<span>
</span>As it is, the south pool of the former estuary is being allowed to
silt-in, and it will be interesting to see whether the upper estuary functions
as such when & if it is ever restored.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIZyK7bugjGIzbsaQK517IQcuKjrxspIqYjaW0MbiRJ2HT6KPJAg4krOg3n9in-pkLqali6D4-CcxcpbQW01lqcK3YUjhDhK-cUNCf2F6-0Z-jqsGIPOenHQLhwoFE2C0DpVzGFDzcB0xaC4i_RCssW5ApJAnNJA4X_R6Knp0NX_0hdhfAp2_U_5-RlQ=s2564" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2564" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIZyK7bugjGIzbsaQK517IQcuKjrxspIqYjaW0MbiRJ2HT6KPJAg4krOg3n9in-pkLqali6D4-CcxcpbQW01lqcK3YUjhDhK-cUNCf2F6-0Z-jqsGIPOenHQLhwoFE2C0DpVzGFDzcB0xaC4i_RCssW5ApJAnNJA4X_R6Knp0NX_0hdhfAp2_U_5-RlQ=w640-h306" title="The "Cackling Goose" was split, taxonomically, from the "Canada Goose" back in 2004" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The city park has a large “lawn” area that attracts
grazing waterfowl, including these Canada Geese.<span> </span>A migrant Cackling Goose had joined the
resident flock.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOQVaE5d6W5hL9QAoZDkTfvT1vkRb4TQ63ohbC19F3VMq5faoXtFgwB5G-FXs9u0PFmzOWHkHU9Em3WHp08X1gw-3ym1j9o34hc3xrOCZZg2NTJcUEzDYdKScE8aRInk0nLqTQtnky4rMbcEN_Gt_dPlWNlF4MGuUZI-w-zI6teoHbI4JP3QzgMSiAZw=s3306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="3306" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOQVaE5d6W5hL9QAoZDkTfvT1vkRb4TQ63ohbC19F3VMq5faoXtFgwB5G-FXs9u0PFmzOWHkHU9Em3WHp08X1gw-3ym1j9o34hc3xrOCZZg2NTJcUEzDYdKScE8aRInk0nLqTQtnky4rMbcEN_Gt_dPlWNlF4MGuUZI-w-zI6teoHbI4JP3QzgMSiAZw=w640-h184" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The trail continues north along the “middle pool” of the
former estuary, often called “<a href="https://des.wa.gov/services/facilities-leasing/capitol-campus/parks-and-attractions/capitol-lake-trails" target="_blank">South Capitol Lake</a>”.<span> </span>Here, there is riparian vegetation, willows,
red alders, and some planted conifers (yes, I’m aware that alders have cones .
. .) adjacent to the “lake”, so it’s a great place to see a variety of
waterfowl and songbirds.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Osuvb31lKz5wvq-u8ZgyMaFfmRNd72llqqp0BTFlwjH97veXIrSkeMFsygnHkdPVybii92tolJ1i7QJEV05icwyHCCNBZ7ptLeApWjBBOWL2NBSuK7NGrA_yI2CIkkaYID1ES9ifbXrpr2jjodlzHNF9tvCX5JUKsUhWT_6TcRZ-Qn8k8WjjX4Nb9A=s1158" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1158" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Osuvb31lKz5wvq-u8ZgyMaFfmRNd72llqqp0BTFlwjH97veXIrSkeMFsygnHkdPVybii92tolJ1i7QJEV05icwyHCCNBZ7ptLeApWjBBOWL2NBSuK7NGrA_yI2CIkkaYID1ES9ifbXrpr2jjodlzHNF9tvCX5JUKsUhWT_6TcRZ-Qn8k8WjjX4Nb9A=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW_JOwz5bIuEaZvYPgxOoG9xC8jKjVz4jqalo9rJbt7AQqp0TwfRAUHfBnsJGsct9FDKlkbDQfgGDnQZebDjb31k0dz1iTXOZrvuFGU09hPi0Q-QCplaaFQbVkez8g3R0pDwCO1VA3_9YTdOdcvCvDA8i4TLJ9ZJ2OKob-9f9zqrg0AXQjBHv6Sk7WUg=s2829" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="2829" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW_JOwz5bIuEaZvYPgxOoG9xC8jKjVz4jqalo9rJbt7AQqp0TwfRAUHfBnsJGsct9FDKlkbDQfgGDnQZebDjb31k0dz1iTXOZrvuFGU09hPi0Q-QCplaaFQbVkez8g3R0pDwCO1VA3_9YTdOdcvCvDA8i4TLJ9ZJ2OKob-9f9zqrg0AXQjBHv6Sk7WUg=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This autumn, there has been a fairly sizeable flock of
Canvasbacks on the lake.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdrDKkpox9-c7IhW6KvAJA7JiD8th6809ocByVuHvZChAVlY84j1KacLEEOeEFi2saRG6wJLjZXZ9vb7JxTkUSPj0cdzJHsXjJ3CcysxY_hgMCZ053pOOr6o8xgKvZOr8jiN05QhpxCWIV1MIsTePFlFEqGnpWcwb5k-wbRXxDJu4HEQUm87d0YQMlA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1329" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdrDKkpox9-c7IhW6KvAJA7JiD8th6809ocByVuHvZChAVlY84j1KacLEEOeEFi2saRG6wJLjZXZ9vb7JxTkUSPj0cdzJHsXjJ3CcysxY_hgMCZ053pOOr6o8xgKvZOr8jiN05QhpxCWIV1MIsTePFlFEqGnpWcwb5k-wbRXxDJu4HEQUm87d0YQMlA=w640-h416" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">These are among our largest diving ducks, and are distinctive
among waterfowl breeding in North America with the profile of their head
sloping upward from tip of long bill to the back of the crown.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZmY444p6set_cbM541IiwAaNz3Mm33alAqI5oAC8ZO06E_zHxsN4dygWDdn-buKmPDVpc-OetrGZlPGNaYfUnnhzAuna_Dr_IyVidYurezMFMwzviL6ODAx9QpKWhoWFU3sD80BA845oGrCnl8XhOMI7-9SQlvoIAe6GuSGeApi5N8xg-0L9wJyngGQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="2048" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZmY444p6set_cbM541IiwAaNz3Mm33alAqI5oAC8ZO06E_zHxsN4dygWDdn-buKmPDVpc-OetrGZlPGNaYfUnnhzAuna_Dr_IyVidYurezMFMwzviL6ODAx9QpKWhoWFU3sD80BA845oGrCnl8XhOMI7-9SQlvoIAe6GuSGeApi5N8xg-0L9wJyngGQ=w640-h388" title="Three drake Pintails, a hen Gadwall, and a hen Wigeon" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Both diving ducks and “dabbling ducks” are common along
this stretch of the trail.<span> </span>Here are
three Northern Pintails, a hen American Wigeon, and a pair of Gadwalls.<span> </span>Although one of the Pintails appears to be
significantly more drab than the brightly-plumaged adult males, it is not a
hen, but rather a male; an immature bird just moulting into its first
pre-alternate plumage.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu6uKPloTX7sR_glvM-tUowxM2EfGnbebk42Lu6x6xEzLw7GZblGeNmg1kThbiqVoIT9ZI9VyaA9iZIOkxnJaQ9aHLR_plKaIAzhHikAyDs1O6QWfC8WDScaZYiQsO8wMH-78F7Z1uqaBkNK2qFCceoM2cVhwO8dG8w7bBDaReyDdRv8DzUYQry8iaAw=s1400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="1400" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu6uKPloTX7sR_glvM-tUowxM2EfGnbebk42Lu6x6xEzLw7GZblGeNmg1kThbiqVoIT9ZI9VyaA9iZIOkxnJaQ9aHLR_plKaIAzhHikAyDs1O6QWfC8WDScaZYiQsO8wMH-78F7Z1uqaBkNK2qFCceoM2cVhwO8dG8w7bBDaReyDdRv8DzUYQry8iaAw=w640-h404" title="The Steller's Jay is a Stellar Bird!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The main walkway is paved; there is a ‘side loop’ that
sometimes serves as access to homeless campsites.<span> </span>I have never been bothered by these
unfortunate folks, but some birders feel uncomfortable birding the ‘back
trail’.<span> </span>There are often some nice birds
tucked away along the west side of the loop.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5dyQypLVWSQclPh0QTt-Gs9Kq1tghTCWGPeI6DlZw5GScFtKbkngU1zo78Uq_fdtDUj3-HR2-yry9vKL4hXlks8t39-RGb3Md20xr5v3U3GKvfY8fVKnv64TSdvsPsYFyrj3euxM5WBv-QsSxMioh4HjfEElPwcc3bDI__ZOdT-iEtHQskJsxrOdM4w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5dyQypLVWSQclPh0QTt-Gs9Kq1tghTCWGPeI6DlZw5GScFtKbkngU1zo78Uq_fdtDUj3-HR2-yry9vKL4hXlks8t39-RGb3Md20xr5v3U3GKvfY8fVKnv64TSdvsPsYFyrj3euxM5WBv-QsSxMioh4HjfEElPwcc3bDI__ZOdT-iEtHQskJsxrOdM4w=w640-h426" title="This week's rally in the Capital City . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I had to go into downtown Olympia for an errand or two,
and was glad that I wasn’t driving.<span> </span>One never
knows when the Citizenry of the town/State will join together to express their
opinions and wishes for the betterment of Society . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFZw-nBkUqgkteVclx0-gSgG2sAarptigoWcBEDJfbA6M00lIsHpohEzOuuySs_AUA7Wo6oFOERFVJP8NCY-Yo_sx3cuXBFOSuPlP2Fu_6UOGuLXhd977mtv_LL26flueDUPlefH2d6kAZd0GmbX1S9ksBm-uzG_LveVL5hZqW0pr1fxX4MHICLVBwZA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1187" data-original-width="2048" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFZw-nBkUqgkteVclx0-gSgG2sAarptigoWcBEDJfbA6M00lIsHpohEzOuuySs_AUA7Wo6oFOERFVJP8NCY-Yo_sx3cuXBFOSuPlP2Fu_6UOGuLXhd977mtv_LL26flueDUPlefH2d6kAZd0GmbX1S9ksBm-uzG_LveVL5hZqW0pr1fxX4MHICLVBwZA=w640-h370" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Finishing, I caught the <a href="https://www.intercitytransit.com/" target="_blank">IT Bus</a> back to Tumwater to pick
up my car, and on the way home, I saw Ken Brown near the entrance to the
Valley, searching for the Black Phoebe, and stopped to see whether he'd been successful.<span> </span>He had not seen the
phoebe, but we had a flock of White-fronted Geese fly up the river to land at
the golf course.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6dlP_1IYs-wbDDnoo0GXBeMqSrsj71EfguiVzCJR0vK9Y-Mq7pzGxuzv-RWpPEUM5pkIVvx4S7mTajTUQsw0ynrGcUfsoRHVlB3cOZN6H3TtQK17vEyaylUORix6HD-w85CBAHWKYClcEBJ4zt6WvCZKXlPDtt9p2L_rwqVkWtfhIFYtG3crxhmLclw=s512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="512" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6dlP_1IYs-wbDDnoo0GXBeMqSrsj71EfguiVzCJR0vK9Y-Mq7pzGxuzv-RWpPEUM5pkIVvx4S7mTajTUQsw0ynrGcUfsoRHVlB3cOZN6H3TtQK17vEyaylUORix6HD-w85CBAHWKYClcEBJ4zt6WvCZKXlPDtt9p2L_rwqVkWtfhIFYtG3crxhmLclw=w640-h312" title="Bradshaw's Desert Parsley - USFWS Photo" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Finally, I arrived home to read in a recent <a href="https://www.capitalpress.com/state/oregon/nw-wildflower-up-for-endangered-species-delisting/article_0c8639b8-1075-11ea-a1a0-b3b80b69349d.html" target="_blank">Capital Press</a> that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document/FWS-R1-ES-2019-0013-0001" target="_blank">proposed to “delist”</a> the Bradshaw’s Desert Parsley <i>Lomatium
bradshawii</i> from the list of Endangered Species.<span> </span>Endemic to and once widespread in the wet,
open areas of the Willamette Valley of western Oregon, <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/PlantConservation/LomatiumBradshawiiProfile.pdf" target="_blank">Bradshaw's Lomatium</a> is
limited now to a few sites in Lane, Marion, and Benton Counties. Most of its
habitat has been destroyed by land development for agriculture, industry, and
housing.<span> </span>There had been a few of these
Endangered plants in the wet prairies on Ankeny NWR when I worked there back in the 1970s-80s, but the USFWS (who
listed the <strike>damned thing</strike> species) partnered with Ducks Unlimited to ‘develop’ “<a href="Eagle Marsh: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Ankeny/News/Eagle_Marsh_Rehab.html" target="_blank">Eagle Marsh</a>” as a waterfowl pond, and wiped out the only spot in the area that I’d
ever seen the species.<span> </span><i>Follow-up: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document/FWS-R1-ES-2019-0013-0022" target="_blank">This plant was “delisted”</a> from ESA-Endangered on March 7, 2021.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tumwater Falls Park eBird
checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62090819" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tumwater Historical Park eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62092158" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">South Capitol Lake Trail eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62093573" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Capitol Lake eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62107613" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tumwater Valley eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S62102289" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’ve gotten in the “bad habit” of going out with the
“Wednesday Walk” group at Nisqually NWR, about 12 miles from my house.<span> </span>There are usually one or two dozen birders in
attendance, of all levels of birding expertise.<span>
</span>The walk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. every week, and no one is
expected to last all day; most folks have a Real Life, and only go birding for part of the
day.<span> </span>Some of us, who have nothing better
to do, will be out with Refuge Volunteer Shep Thorp until the bitter end. Usually around 3 or 4 p.m.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP_DVYYC8BryKNbylrbWMZNHgoHXlGK0T5t751J_Yip2Tq27b2A4se3_pT0bg-iSN9tqZktXiEe7goyNMkNXyf1aKzsb-uVaeALcC12d9cUCP3JXK1lyjgzQMvpyl8lLWuqTgOL-JiBY2dGwBl8ocordXyMQzT_ID7FlK9MYHBLL-tB8EsETJZQv4n-A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP_DVYYC8BryKNbylrbWMZNHgoHXlGK0T5t751J_Yip2Tq27b2A4se3_pT0bg-iSN9tqZktXiEe7goyNMkNXyf1aKzsb-uVaeALcC12d9cUCP3JXK1lyjgzQMvpyl8lLWuqTgOL-JiBY2dGwBl8ocordXyMQzT_ID7FlK9MYHBLL-tB8EsETJZQv4n-A=w640-h426" title="Nisqually Birders" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As usual, the group departed the Visitors’ Center and
worked our way through the heritage orchard.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT5gdEsQKXNtaMU5or9hOJSyarewfuc7bmKT8wvsG0Ff4XAxeXamynP3lEWIp3uMZ1esHEIa_VsoxX8KVd9Xf1kGSOGB5d47fela7G3tPET-gKG3i3PsswnzfHZ_xSMw8ljA3VQvN636JQXsOShE-7ADjfU9Erlm39OUTxJyBrkImjDezpShO-od2jiw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2048" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT5gdEsQKXNtaMU5or9hOJSyarewfuc7bmKT8wvsG0Ff4XAxeXamynP3lEWIp3uMZ1esHEIa_VsoxX8KVd9Xf1kGSOGB5d47fela7G3tPET-gKG3i3PsswnzfHZ_xSMw8ljA3VQvN636JQXsOShE-7ADjfU9Erlm39OUTxJyBrkImjDezpShO-od2jiw=w640-h404" title="Pacific Wren - Troglodytes pacificus" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Although Pacific Wrens are in the area year-round, it is
easier to see these "skulkers" when the leaves have fallen.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89L7czlLjfwgaMJwl4UunjywxNlW-FiL75gc_dBFbaydaYCgIlUpianxGACaZKh9487Sc3pddpAq_mVTzdp64WV3sZFXk75N6hJDibFaRL_EDxJf-AGgO6qIowEXTKK-7mvdWmDkf7derBv46vImhIO7FI0q6uIjwJyhxlvofZRmf4kCnk3H-4t6Xgg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2048" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89L7czlLjfwgaMJwl4UunjywxNlW-FiL75gc_dBFbaydaYCgIlUpianxGACaZKh9487Sc3pddpAq_mVTzdp64WV3sZFXk75N6hJDibFaRL_EDxJf-AGgO6qIowEXTKK-7mvdWmDkf7derBv46vImhIO7FI0q6uIjwJyhxlvofZRmf4kCnk3H-4t6Xgg=w640-h420" title="White-crowned Sparrow immature" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Both Juncos and White-crowned Sparrows are common in the
area, but for some reason they are not all that common on the Refuge.<span> </span>Here, an immature “Gambel’s” White-crown was
found in a flock of Golden-crowned Sparrows. I see the bill as being more "dirty straw" color than the "yellow" bill of the Puget Sound subspecies.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg058lxsnHW3lwGlg-Z3ac_xsMVx4riJi7yKKyoAkF2Qgf98uAqiaitzbF3WdLLGx_0U4amUBSffGPzhxZ6RRktvuKqnN9vKuyGfAqz2x04nni-C9PQ-Ywye0zwTJj3znmoiSD6LljKvd6gdL0iRNCYwxoowz-SiinN0p_vGOsdobepnykO8EkxIveN3g=s2573" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2573" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg058lxsnHW3lwGlg-Z3ac_xsMVx4riJi7yKKyoAkF2Qgf98uAqiaitzbF3WdLLGx_0U4amUBSffGPzhxZ6RRktvuKqnN9vKuyGfAqz2x04nni-C9PQ-Ywye0zwTJj3znmoiSD6LljKvd6gdL0iRNCYwxoowz-SiinN0p_vGOsdobepnykO8EkxIveN3g=w640-h304" title="Wigeon in the Surge Plain" width="640" /></a></div></span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The group went north to catch the tidal push, hoping the
incoming tide would result in the waterbirds being a bit closer.<span> </span>And scoping from the north dike into the
restored estuary, we were rewarded with a view of a drake Eurasian Wigeon (seen
here in the lower left) among all of the American Wigeon.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJcIpfOdDSVXyUtrbS74QYJpOqTq65cKNEzw04s1-Xw1fCtnMelMzWwC_FNgD7evevwzou6e4Zf6UxQOv1GLx7fwjVEa9GaHfBAziq5-zDg5MB-I9cqfUO4AWYz81bSqInwkZ6p6x0CrhUQg_bpLXXuej6xlo0s8OwvYPK8PB0JAXjSMZp_bYACcU0-w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2048" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJcIpfOdDSVXyUtrbS74QYJpOqTq65cKNEzw04s1-Xw1fCtnMelMzWwC_FNgD7evevwzou6e4Zf6UxQOv1GLx7fwjVEa9GaHfBAziq5-zDg5MB-I9cqfUO4AWYz81bSqInwkZ6p6x0CrhUQg_bpLXXuej6xlo0s8OwvYPK8PB0JAXjSMZp_bYACcU0-w=w640-h404" title="Laurel sights in on a bird in McAllister Creek" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We went out onto the estuary boardwalk within an hour of
the high tide, which happened at noon today, and sorted through the various
gulls and waterfowl.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTqonz4nCqxmtea0Zprk0jpHyYOG5p_avTdlHkVpS0BdisFtY2vl7WLrXe3N8XL51Sn7-3FD98s7lNZa_KTOkljw5sDMuTUXCMSsapWotMuypXF_O1cyU4X-R5ayPIVTXaX-ax9pr_F_5dMRLLXVApjXeEYlLjxIITYt2FiwLqZjfpR1nile8sq1iVAg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="2048" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTqonz4nCqxmtea0Zprk0jpHyYOG5p_avTdlHkVpS0BdisFtY2vl7WLrXe3N8XL51Sn7-3FD98s7lNZa_KTOkljw5sDMuTUXCMSsapWotMuypXF_O1cyU4X-R5ayPIVTXaX-ax9pr_F_5dMRLLXVApjXeEYlLjxIITYt2FiwLqZjfpR1nile8sq1iVAg=w640-h394" title=""Olympic Gull" (Western X Glaucous-winged Hybrid)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We see lots of “Large Pink-footed Gulls” in south Puget
Sound.<span> </span>Many birders from “Away” want to
see Left Coast specialties like a Glaucous-winged or Western Gull.<span> </span>Unfortunately for them, many (most?) of the
gulls in this area are hybrids of the two species. Those folks who are hoping for a "Life Bird" are disappointed that these are "merely" hybrids, and don't "count" as a "tick" on their bird lists.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9BE_2CwrNzVL1rwUO-cZfIQsCHLHFIW8XiHUOYvOKHm3VR65rwJus9EGWJw_n5Li-1aD2Y0q8AJEcchzBkqRgu1WJ9ILOiJy9FBfg0GUa2kc-4Y428Gp7Qj963Xh15DQYHjzKQTa9UF4Xv8REfTWvX-khxkMasyfLuObSnJO-3YK1MhCzBwemyWjo8g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1165" data-original-width="2048" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9BE_2CwrNzVL1rwUO-cZfIQsCHLHFIW8XiHUOYvOKHm3VR65rwJus9EGWJw_n5Li-1aD2Y0q8AJEcchzBkqRgu1WJ9ILOiJy9FBfg0GUa2kc-4Y428Gp7Qj963Xh15DQYHjzKQTa9UF4Xv8REfTWvX-khxkMasyfLuObSnJO-3YK1MhCzBwemyWjo8g=w640-h364" title="High tide along the Estuary Boardwalk" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As the tide rose, most of the mudflat had been inundated,
and any chance for seeing shorebirds had pretty well disappeared.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR90apzxGkcTRyDonIi3Nyx7VnQFEbZRSLOQy_-2aB6Px_1oZhSdnWi4FPRfseccc8rjUQEyYKh1xQBcY5entEHUli461BiEWZYqE_BcidxWFqtTM6fCXIsCU67n-3rcRDZqmVP_ry3L_BdmWXhUmWcNV0_aZ_hCtEeKpCCLtWpvmnYocemzcfILFhVA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="2048" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR90apzxGkcTRyDonIi3Nyx7VnQFEbZRSLOQy_-2aB6Px_1oZhSdnWi4FPRfseccc8rjUQEyYKh1xQBcY5entEHUli461BiEWZYqE_BcidxWFqtTM6fCXIsCU67n-3rcRDZqmVP_ry3L_BdmWXhUmWcNV0_aZ_hCtEeKpCCLtWpvmnYocemzcfILFhVA=w640-h364" title="Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">But, with the high water, one can often see bird species
that more often stay out in the deeper water.<span>
</span>Because it was a +13.74-foot high tide, a Red-throated Loon swam in to
hunt its lunch in McAllister Creek’s flooded intertidal zone.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhppv8EZvLRY2JZsUpFQRTzZ0-kT4mXMDI6LCc9xbsjPyAPO_bACvReRaKw0ZV4FnJiR3AKQmXrjR14L5LjDeLXOUueQBA_BGju271NPKpAU4pJM1lT6x3-h6LkmrXsCAW22dZoBdeWISseijoZZIeQzoV5-1B3Sxmpsv35KfSxVl8Av2BDl9Veyiuxhw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhppv8EZvLRY2JZsUpFQRTzZ0-kT4mXMDI6LCc9xbsjPyAPO_bACvReRaKw0ZV4FnJiR3AKQmXrjR14L5LjDeLXOUueQBA_BGju271NPKpAU4pJM1lT6x3-h6LkmrXsCAW22dZoBdeWISseijoZZIeQzoV5-1B3Sxmpsv35KfSxVl8Av2BDl9Veyiuxhw=w640-h426" title="Plastic Duck (Fake-us chinensis)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The waterfowl hunting season is on-going on the WDFW
Wildlife Area adjacent to the Refuge.<span>
</span>Many hunters are not familiar with the 12-15-foot tidal exchange, and set
their duck decoys with too light a weight, or too short of an anchor line.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVcrLgFrLxixzzU7nkUeIyBbXNL7BXfg1yCrsq2EhOKqs50GAAicBFfPLEYxAh175-sU-IuCdPKWDBqj2H-_JdxtuOfzOLhXhPqVeHFXecPp7xp-9mRlXPw3eBZn6h_riTqTo7oueEe0CXGxN9BaBMj9vSU_hEX0r5y420AbYkf4vuHQsUPBf0PXE4BQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="2048" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVcrLgFrLxixzzU7nkUeIyBbXNL7BXfg1yCrsq2EhOKqs50GAAicBFfPLEYxAh175-sU-IuCdPKWDBqj2H-_JdxtuOfzOLhXhPqVeHFXecPp7xp-9mRlXPw3eBZn6h_riTqTo7oueEe0CXGxN9BaBMj9vSU_hEX0r5y420AbYkf4vuHQsUPBf0PXE4BQ=w640-h390" title="Raptor in the cottonwood snag" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We’d seen a fair number of birds out on the estuary.<span> </span>Having the salt water habitats of the
Nisqually Reach and Delta adjacent to the Refuge’s fresh water marsh, fields,
and riparian trees makes for a pretty good species count on most days.<span> </span>As we walked back, we spied a raptor perched
in a cottonwood snag.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-VFYrZdduaRmh_9qKkZHzviNu7bRIE8lxVIeTBCyYnr-7WEvfcPebHHURwAY5pRiDaV6gjg4P8Qin0epBjdiT55hilA_fzFmVfGWjR_rZ6X0Bgh5b7jUVZX_usBQmLoOCReSnUyWDkiOWp_qZ-QGfG3xHqu3SFz4JEOw59aNoHXmMEHbA96G5uOHUJQ=s836" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="836" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-VFYrZdduaRmh_9qKkZHzviNu7bRIE8lxVIeTBCyYnr-7WEvfcPebHHURwAY5pRiDaV6gjg4P8Qin0epBjdiT55hilA_fzFmVfGWjR_rZ6X0Bgh5b7jUVZX_usBQmLoOCReSnUyWDkiOWp_qZ-QGfG3xHqu3SFz4JEOw59aNoHXmMEHbA96G5uOHUJQ=w640-h422" title=". . . turns into a Peregrine!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Getting the scopes on the bird revealed it to be a
Peregrine Falcon searching for a duck dinner.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigifL-r_JiATCRB3MUAWAASlv1SLXG1NW9v_-fmKw8cCMxjHZstXpjipCLn5xtdBEqXhuIZ0cy1unsV-zISSjIyxdlYtHHvcJm60VRqs6-J5pOQ61tRvJMoxNXfJ-1ALg0ynUvjtEnaGgO31ZLo91hiSQCjiRv8hGBff7wpI5DVHwJrWVBoEy2E7sVGA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1299" data-original-width="2048" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigifL-r_JiATCRB3MUAWAASlv1SLXG1NW9v_-fmKw8cCMxjHZstXpjipCLn5xtdBEqXhuIZ0cy1unsV-zISSjIyxdlYtHHvcJm60VRqs6-J5pOQ61tRvJMoxNXfJ-1ALg0ynUvjtEnaGgO31ZLo91hiSQCjiRv8hGBff7wpI5DVHwJrWVBoEy2E7sVGA=w640-h406" title="Bob-tailed Olympic Gull" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">In all, the group saw 70 species today, which is not bad
for a damp mid-winter day. Come join us if you can!<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nisqually NWR eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S62019739" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsInBlbYBJhuR1UxgPnfM0D_pi6RunEODRyGWFucA0Se-9_YOpc9iE_aojAWfJEmJTM0NXFqMDE-y434IGva4XrMDSQo8WvTQHb8E0uagZeIT7sEGwlvjA0pW7BnMDREkM46zWy51SiIP3N7zXGI0tN1lBL6-qBjqpAnU_EeSwjGQM_EGWFnmMVbjGpQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2048" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsInBlbYBJhuR1UxgPnfM0D_pi6RunEODRyGWFucA0Se-9_YOpc9iE_aojAWfJEmJTM0NXFqMDE-y434IGva4XrMDSQo8WvTQHb8E0uagZeIT7sEGwlvjA0pW7BnMDREkM46zWy51SiIP3N7zXGI0tN1lBL6-qBjqpAnU_EeSwjGQM_EGWFnmMVbjGpQ=w640-h430" title="Great Blue Heron" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p> </p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, 100 Brown Farm Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98516, USA47.072769 -122.712728818.762535163821155 -157.86897879999998 75.383002836178846 -87.5564788tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-78881328040453040792021-10-28T14:30:00.000-07:002021-10-28T14:30:26.096-07:00December 3, 2019 - The Missing Emperor<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Now that I’m attempting to remain in the eBird “Top Ten”
list of species seen in the ABA Area (North America north of Mexico), I realize
that there’s another birder (Charlie Bostwick from Georgia) <i>tied</i> with me
for 10<sup>th</sup> place!<span> </span>Well,
shoot!<span> </span>Up until now, I hadn’t been in
competition with anyone but myself during this Peregrination year, and my focus
was on seeing “Life Birds”.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0TN4lLV9qSFiFcy09i8qNjXSbSceDYJr4sWRg9HGuYyi8L9mukqJIAjHU0gRazUV9eFWXPBYVvuiI0hiZtjGHS2JfLJ9kmc6dhX4ZmFovhp_-BC-fgdC1kJlRnxuT7VXP5GnapLKwZxw27iENeB7jM3R3Goy3yWZYFPXwA5vyt2EFR8Laj0Fb3qBcvA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="2048" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0TN4lLV9qSFiFcy09i8qNjXSbSceDYJr4sWRg9HGuYyi8L9mukqJIAjHU0gRazUV9eFWXPBYVvuiI0hiZtjGHS2JfLJ9kmc6dhX4ZmFovhp_-BC-fgdC1kJlRnxuT7VXP5GnapLKwZxw27iENeB7jM3R3Goy3yWZYFPXwA5vyt2EFR8Laj0Fb3qBcvA=w640-h394" title="Cackling Geese at Trojan" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sigh . . . an adult <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61206814" target="_blank">Emperor Goose</a> has been seen just
across the Columbia River in Oregon, on Sauvie’s Island. <span> </span>Since I’d not seen this species yet this year,
I made the drive down I-5 and crossed the Columbia River at Longview, stopping en
route at the old Trojan Plant to sort through several hundred Cackling Geese
near the roadway for anything odd or interesting.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVgdhso-iw6Um9E8c0YWGE-8ehfoZm6rBpMBk-eeBc8DF0o_o0WsgGcTRlK-5Bpp-8wMq39L5X3UDDfrkhq8_--DPNEr79PWjQhIGeOv75Ipp33ZSH5E5B-8yGWt9ARZg8Z61Hn52V0IFOnAgRAlgkPZfN_1CWCfuaqVp-9Xpj88l8Re5Ppixhsf1BDA=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVgdhso-iw6Um9E8c0YWGE-8ehfoZm6rBpMBk-eeBc8DF0o_o0WsgGcTRlK-5Bpp-8wMq39L5X3UDDfrkhq8_--DPNEr79PWjQhIGeOv75Ipp33ZSH5E5B-8yGWt9ARZg8Z61Hn52V0IFOnAgRAlgkPZfN_1CWCfuaqVp-9Xpj88l8Re5Ppixhsf1BDA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Trojan site was developed by PGE as Oregon’s only
commercial nuclear facility in the early 1970s.<span>
</span>Vocal opposition to the plant, as well as evidence of shoddy
construction, finally led to its shut-down in 1993 after yet another leak of
radioactive water.<span> </span>The plant was
decommissioned soon after, and the structures were finally torn town in
2006.<span> </span>The former grounds provide habitat
for birds, now, as well as being <a href="https://portlandgeneral.com/about/parks-campgrounds/trojan-park" target="_blank">operated as a park</a>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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Sauvie’s Island headed north out Reeder Road toward the <a href="https://myodfw.com/sauvie-island-wildlife-area-visitors-guide" target="_blank">Sauvie Island Wildlife Area</a> operated by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.<span> </span>You’ll see the island’s name as Sauvie or
Sauvie’s; and pronounced “Saw-vees”.<span> </span>My
Grandfather had, many years ago, met members of the old family, and told me
they pronounced their name “Soo-vey”.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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that have been banded and marked by waterfowl managers, as I’d been paid to do
so while working for the US Fish and Wildlife Service back in the <a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/gtr591.pdf" target="_blank">Willamette Valley</a> during the 1980s.<span> </span>While enumerating
geese back then, there would be dozens of plastic neck collars to read.<span> </span>Now, looking through a thousand birds might
yield a few collars - hopefully close enough to read one.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaUBuf3eoHvOaRlz1Pt-n4z6Uj6tPSJpmAs5o3W-g_6r4k5Nu5y4b0K16NnDWFSx5uUB5XbNynmVd78CqfXX_V3q9XlD8qvoKbHw4PLLEaH0eDiKNbGqlvUPifjcXFUozv0NBJDPpoalND9FaNT1VtTV_uASUxi2OxNnW8Rf2klSbQ4PUUE5RInkpzeg=s399" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="399" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaUBuf3eoHvOaRlz1Pt-n4z6Uj6tPSJpmAs5o3W-g_6r4k5Nu5y4b0K16NnDWFSx5uUB5XbNynmVd78CqfXX_V3q9XlD8qvoKbHw4PLLEaH0eDiKNbGqlvUPifjcXFUozv0NBJDPpoalND9FaNT1VtTV_uASUxi2OxNnW8Rf2klSbQ4PUUE5RInkpzeg=w640-h350" title="Snow Goose with Black plastic neck collar: 7 X2" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I did read a few collars on Cackling Geese, and one on an
adult Snow Goose.<span> </span>As with a bird band
you find on a window-killed robin or a sparrow your cat brings in, if you can
read the plastic neck collar on a goose, you can (should!) report the number to
the <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/labs/birdb-lab" target="_blank">Bird Banding Laboratory</a>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUIbc9D-1y3t4kkxQJEei53IM2qyEo-bSt-PNLqcSA5nfiv_6ZfG7u-Wuz3waITJk0bSNAxEJCkYwowdkYF_t6rTyhLSGQOuKI0h1QBwWkIHD3QMg3IPs5oVR0-tCTkxvzGRaDiRqSQyn5L3XNC_eZ1B3e48D7uypmSx8f7NxKdHt5PufjY680xJu98g=s1372" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1372" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUIbc9D-1y3t4kkxQJEei53IM2qyEo-bSt-PNLqcSA5nfiv_6ZfG7u-Wuz3waITJk0bSNAxEJCkYwowdkYF_t6rTyhLSGQOuKI0h1QBwWkIHD3QMg3IPs5oVR0-tCTkxvzGRaDiRqSQyn5L3XNC_eZ1B3e48D7uypmSx8f7NxKdHt5PufjY680xJu98g=w640-h376" title=""Blue Goose" in a flock of "Snows"" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Another benefit of slowing down to look for marked birds
is that one can sometimes find the ‘odd duck’ (in this case, a goose . . .)
among the members of the flocks.<span> </span>Here, a
“Blue Goose” joins the “Snows”.<span> </span>The
“Blue” goose is a color phase of the Snow Goose, and is relatively common in
the Central Flyway, but is uncommon in the flocks here in the Pacific Northwest
- indeed, throughout the “West”.<span> </span>The
blue-phase and white-phase were considered separate species until 1983, but
were “lumped” following genetic studies.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNLlguW_bVHwCgOfJbhx1C6zIujDEoT3FjV74lhMoAekPb8U3y1QEcxXV5ppEfkWDdd7RcLuZ7X9TmrTJBBDBac-uVEyyUx2_hTD4mbjgq6vjq47EkF1WahzUpssTphlWHEZS7RSJ2SA_29d1_nB8Lh-a6gzuhids7V7NCy3VUUb3lkmmB0lsCoJx2Og=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNLlguW_bVHwCgOfJbhx1C6zIujDEoT3FjV74lhMoAekPb8U3y1QEcxXV5ppEfkWDdd7RcLuZ7X9TmrTJBBDBac-uVEyyUx2_hTD4mbjgq6vjq47EkF1WahzUpssTphlWHEZS7RSJ2SA_29d1_nB8Lh-a6gzuhids7V7NCy3VUUb3lkmmB0lsCoJx2Og=w640-h426" title="The birds were a little "flighty" . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Every once in a while, an eagle would pass over and the
flock would become airborne.<span> </span>Sometimes,
they seemed just to flush and re-settle for no d</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">iscernible reason.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzvaCgRxZQVRjNY7e-11bPhQonhyC2Ul9u-stR0zrtllgG-Qbw7g9tgicQP8eCbhAYWu9aD5j2ip0BBOgV4MbmAWrP08wB5lxrg36jpvowrzylCYrpsWqEEQcQEi3hpyIVXxIjK7hV8DMl9lzFTG0Wv372YXwmELiXfsvLQZ2DQeC6RDWyoULmaYxPKg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzvaCgRxZQVRjNY7e-11bPhQonhyC2Ul9u-stR0zrtllgG-Qbw7g9tgicQP8eCbhAYWu9aD5j2ip0BBOgV4MbmAWrP08wB5lxrg36jpvowrzylCYrpsWqEEQcQEi3hpyIVXxIjK7hV8DMl9lzFTG0Wv372YXwmELiXfsvLQZ2DQeC6RDWyoULmaYxPKg=w640-h396" title=""Just" a White-crowned Sparrow . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Oregon Birders <a href="https://ebird.org/profile/NDk2NzIw/US-OR-041" target="_blank">Bill Tice</a> and <a href="https://ebird.org/profile/Mjg1NTk3/US-OR-067" target="_blank">Steve Nord</a> let me know that
a <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61968089" target="_blank">Vesper Sparrow</a> had been seen today along <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61977996" target="_blank">Rentenaar Road</a>, just north of where
we were, as well as an intermittent Black-and-White Warbler along Walton
Beach.<span> </span>They were going to look for the
Vesper, so I gave up on endlessly scoping through the goose flocks, and opted
to follow them to the sparrow site.<span> </span>I’d
seen many individuals of this species through the year, but it’s always nice to
see one in western Oregon or Washington.<span>
</span>Sadly, I’d let my camera battery get low, and it ‘died’ before I could
get a photo of the Vesper . . .<span> </span>Thank
goodness, Bill and Steve got decent photos.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgi68-NPtFnKyvGaSrgxr84O1ktZT6DgpW-moAIWuXvdU9YGT1ScP0Cxw3YUTyCwOs5FZvFnD3cVD4Qxfbog6ttlt23yZqncZSsV8GmU8sUDWqEND7VwNASVztKRJ7ngUPO8F4fUAJgGvt3a-bFGf0qEqrCLP67JGWPjst2qRP5LxtzfRVwpgXpMjc7Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgi68-NPtFnKyvGaSrgxr84O1ktZT6DgpW-moAIWuXvdU9YGT1ScP0Cxw3YUTyCwOs5FZvFnD3cVD4Qxfbog6ttlt23yZqncZSsV8GmU8sUDWqEND7VwNASVztKRJ7ngUPO8F4fUAJgGvt3a-bFGf0qEqrCLP67JGWPjst2qRP5LxtzfRVwpgXpMjc7Q=w426-h640" title="Rentenaar Road" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Darkness comes in the early afternoon in the Pacific
Northwest in December, so I headed toward home, having ‘dipped’ on the Emperor
Goose.<span> </span>But, there’s more opportunities
before the end of the year, so “Hope Springs Eternal.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Trojan Plant eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61955693" name="_Hlk85979985" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">South Sauvie Island eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61957253" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sauvie Island Reeder Road eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61958113" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sauvie Island WA Observation deck eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61960806" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sauvie Island Rentenaar Road eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61963757" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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<br /><br />Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Sauvie Island Wildlife Area, 18330 NW Sauvie Island Rd, Portland, OR 97231, USA45.6552403 -122.834519517.345006463821157 -157.9907695 73.965474136178841 -87.6782695tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-17798665234206242242021-10-24T13:54:00.002-07:002021-10-24T13:54:44.611-07:00December 2, 2019 - Mountain on the Beach<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’m back at home in the Pacific Northwest, and have no
further extensive birding trips planned.<span>
</span>I’ve attained and exceeded my initial goal for my “Peregrination”, which
was to observe 75 new “Life Birds”.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGi8kGgsxvHm_HTtY_x-8dYeSlCp4JZj0q5kaczPGLHqyfbsvVK-GSdSsCLrXl1u_NmkGfa6WBt6u1RagwT5uJ3HcU0TnWRPHWy0gJMkBC6CwomDOoWQ4J4esFQkWGfOsVIc0AAwWfctCV0Ha-v6aEL9rOVhwO8cacwf-UpFnm5WV6_TeZu8FtDcdOmQ=s1620" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1620" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGi8kGgsxvHm_HTtY_x-8dYeSlCp4JZj0q5kaczPGLHqyfbsvVK-GSdSsCLrXl1u_NmkGfa6WBt6u1RagwT5uJ3HcU0TnWRPHWy0gJMkBC6CwomDOoWQ4J4esFQkWGfOsVIc0AAwWfctCV0Ha-v6aEL9rOVhwO8cacwf-UpFnm5WV6_TeZu8FtDcdOmQ=w640-h446" title="This Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) was the first "Lifer" I saw this year, 'way back in January" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">However, I hadn’t been paying much attention to my
“Standing” compared to other birders in the country.<span> </span>Mainly because I know I’d not be able
to see as many bird species as some of the active birders in the “American
Birding Association” area (North America north of Mexico).</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieyPUMuU2J90LhHhwifR7KWeHb2eYx711INOIw51CvyVLBIFNv8o8w0Cob6QweMT5FPnFVzT9EohtgxmkxzKPY9uUqjv1m2hKqmBqjkRwq-36at4ThStp538s4FmR19BJGeDfj8t2AdZY28SAtFLG96DvR6tQzxRMdUT4gVQOBf8CGTrs9ixHQpj18Gw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="2048" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieyPUMuU2J90LhHhwifR7KWeHb2eYx711INOIw51CvyVLBIFNv8o8w0Cob6QweMT5FPnFVzT9EohtgxmkxzKPY9uUqjv1m2hKqmBqjkRwq-36at4ThStp538s4FmR19BJGeDfj8t2AdZY28SAtFLG96DvR6tQzxRMdUT4gVQOBf8CGTrs9ixHQpj18Gw=w640-h414" title="Tammy McQuade is second from the left; David is third from the right (Sept 2019 in the Pribilofs)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>For instance, I birded with <a href="Tammy and Dave 3031 https://ebird.org/profile/NTQ5MzQ3/US" target="_blank">Tammy and David McQuade</a> back in
September, they are excellent birders and nice people.<span> </span>But, there’s no way I can afford to bop back-and-forth
around the continent the way they can and rack up year lists of 750 species . .
.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilKkAJBjkI_HoCUjb58GTZi3NfgungO0nnWL9l3y6YD0cjMKqkCtZC7DoGY1UNcWBNmxMg_pUSAw4SqguPDTJorx464zH6Enmdojka3jF9EfvITsLZS0RGPKno-bQODwACKxYL-tZGKyWDOUE_nzrN6XxjkotTimHuZ6iwCcmK1rL3mkuBkrviifmj6Q=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilKkAJBjkI_HoCUjb58GTZi3NfgungO0nnWL9l3y6YD0cjMKqkCtZC7DoGY1UNcWBNmxMg_pUSAw4SqguPDTJorx464zH6Enmdojka3jF9EfvITsLZS0RGPKno-bQODwACKxYL-tZGKyWDOUE_nzrN6XxjkotTimHuZ6iwCcmK1rL3mkuBkrviifmj6Q=w640-h360" title="I'd noticed, back in August, that I was in 'rarified' company, but hadn't given it that much thought since. On August 18th, I had seen 70 "Lifers" and was still on the hunt for 5 more!" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Now, it has been pointed out to me that I “still have a
good chance to be in the ‘Top Ten’ list of birders…” for the year, using the eBird
program.<span> </span>I realize Birding is <i>not</i>
a competition, but this changes my outlook on birding here at the end of the
calendar year - from the mere enjoyment of seeing a new species of bird, of
enjoying ‘old feathered friends’, of seeing new places, and of sharing the
outdoors with my birding friends.<span> </span>At
this point, should I make an effort, in the time remaining, to maximize my
“Year List”??</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo9ATNi9nVw3j_qezqrnIZuIi9Y6ifns1yzb4yY7QaLTig3Rq-y8XPZoS4JA3otpZLQdxqreCNjhBTnmcUN868mzFUeC8UF4wsJlVjHdkiUWDvFBxVCPkQwc9Zmhs8XM7SG6PDpGSxGpQjwwxynn7irZTlNZ8axuSAzEh15uGYXh3Hga88pwEKbEzs4A=s915" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="686" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo9ATNi9nVw3j_qezqrnIZuIi9Y6ifns1yzb4yY7QaLTig3Rq-y8XPZoS4JA3otpZLQdxqreCNjhBTnmcUN868mzFUeC8UF4wsJlVjHdkiUWDvFBxVCPkQwc9Zmhs8XM7SG6PDpGSxGpQjwwxynn7irZTlNZ8axuSAzEh15uGYXh3Hga88pwEKbEzs4A=w480-h640" title="Scope view . . ." width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Well, why not?<span> </span>It
was foggy and 35<span>º this morning, but I
had a goal.<span> </span>A Mountain Plover was found
by the <a href="https://coasst.org/" target="_blank">COASST Survey</a> crew at Copalis Beach north of Grays Harbor and reported by
<a href="Carl’s eBird report https://ebird.org/checklist/S61858620" target="_blank">Carl Haynie</a>.<span> </span>This species breeds on the
high plains from Montana south to New Mexico, and is, at best, a “casual”
visitor to Washington State, with only a half-dozen previous records in the
State.<span> </span>It usually winters from southern
California to Texas and northern Mexico.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjcjjA7VUpGNLTfMqv0B8UOi9GpLVicIBwo2ktw_WwVnDtEUZ7RXk9q7SK5-XRhdApYufFE2ehlLBBTFPFaKBV4ErQmTdoCyH6oOiWGGCnszGu7p4URBIPi1T0RwA6IPXegTloZPU2FYpMJngtL22X8KRpbGKheIwTRiZ2yjc-v430Pb5ATB8GbH_6dQ=s926" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="926" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjcjjA7VUpGNLTfMqv0B8UOi9GpLVicIBwo2ktw_WwVnDtEUZ7RXk9q7SK5-XRhdApYufFE2ehlLBBTFPFaKBV4ErQmTdoCyH6oOiWGGCnszGu7p4URBIPi1T0RwA6IPXegTloZPU2FYpMJngtL22X8KRpbGKheIwTRiZ2yjc-v430Pb5ATB8GbH_6dQ=w640-h354" title="Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>Somehow, I’d
missed seeing this species of plover when I crossed the prairies this past Spring, and
since it was lounging on a beach only an hour-and-a-half away, I loaded into
the Subaru and drove west.<span> </span>Arriving at
the <a href="https://parks.state.wa.us/516/Griffiths-Priday" target="_blank">Griffiths-Priday State Park</a> parking area, I was greeted by a nice Western
Meadowlark flitting around the picnic tables.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As I walked down on the beach, I was all alone and able
to enjoy the quiet beauty of a lonesome winter beach in the Pacific Northwest.<span> </span>It was cool, but pleasant with an offshore
breeze.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9zsYl-UwmA8-qhqRTHJART1pH49lklTZBUluhaH6Buy_CInEg4oJFTgvTqj6n2-evmvD8-P_NfYlbhJJXdWKO-A4vQ8yS0YhyNPq8LWmJHgtzVwwO30tPUBOUz3YyrmrkjRojfkvMrsXEUryyeJxyEEhKhooYX2aog4p7QibBPepDc0yRasfRgAAMGg=s1898" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1898" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9zsYl-UwmA8-qhqRTHJART1pH49lklTZBUluhaH6Buy_CInEg4oJFTgvTqj6n2-evmvD8-P_NfYlbhJJXdWKO-A4vQ8yS0YhyNPq8LWmJHgtzVwwO30tPUBOUz3YyrmrkjRojfkvMrsXEUryyeJxyEEhKhooYX2aog4p7QibBPepDc0yRasfRgAAMGg=w640-h386" title="Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It did not take long to find the plover near the mouth of
Connor Creek.<span> </span>The bird’s buffy brown
plumage contrasts with the dark grey sand.<span>
</span>The bird was a little wary, but I kept my distance, and it resumed
foraging and finding a comfortable place out of the breeze.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDdtsPf7sMlJ0i9633q29hbFjkx0tRNbzaABgHy4Ax8fG7suq4OvK9lq3HWfcencxnClg0mrzWmvHXbfDHi_4Qcvoc9EIzUO9XydgZtTZkhYSdnSyG6CFYNivbZFowMW3c3tedSb1iQk4szGEI47GzOBGnA3WHA5G15vHEIMkIgBaBrAzv_aPf4J9rOQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDdtsPf7sMlJ0i9633q29hbFjkx0tRNbzaABgHy4Ax8fG7suq4OvK9lq3HWfcencxnClg0mrzWmvHXbfDHi_4Qcvoc9EIzUO9XydgZtTZkhYSdnSyG6CFYNivbZFowMW3c3tedSb1iQk4szGEI47GzOBGnA3WHA5G15vHEIMkIgBaBrAzv_aPf4J9rOQ=w640-h426" title="There's always excitement when birders get a view of their "target" bird . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvDHadtR7RUIKesO5WXGkuyoKF0RHkOshZtCQZGYB_VOrSZeDjvkPsnxYQxhaXvhHgoPyNaU0hZyOlxkZboVLrx5CC1H3ZnxSj_9qOi14snryzlfZi4ZYkibHe02G0XFPkj9M4NqHGqVAl-OlMZ4L1ePjSWADM1veC_B6eT1FJFOmQdY1N6GqlTPlMyA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvDHadtR7RUIKesO5WXGkuyoKF0RHkOshZtCQZGYB_VOrSZeDjvkPsnxYQxhaXvhHgoPyNaU0hZyOlxkZboVLrx5CC1H3ZnxSj_9qOi14snryzlfZi4ZYkibHe02G0XFPkj9M4NqHGqVAl-OlMZ4L1ePjSWADM1veC_B6eT1FJFOmQdY1N6GqlTPlMyA=w640-h426" title="Whittier getting a scope view" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiTAIZZi02VLq_BgBw0C5JTBqcP26_EprZrhCjLxhpWzdzwGi-LVwTYTIjjhSOYvXvTMGQzwdPzsIeuWsLDf8R99XsUaaedMBOchZ6EgRZUMzWd2tf7RMD4tS5UdgFT9LpKdlKTY7AYm9uxUS1bA5RniHJSC-Rk1rgUJ0WG6bhBWFYFKvoM5JA7IrYfg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiTAIZZi02VLq_BgBw0C5JTBqcP26_EprZrhCjLxhpWzdzwGi-LVwTYTIjjhSOYvXvTMGQzwdPzsIeuWsLDf8R99XsUaaedMBOchZ6EgRZUMzWd2tf7RMD4tS5UdgFT9LpKdlKTY7AYm9uxUS1bA5RniHJSC-Rk1rgUJ0WG6bhBWFYFKvoM5JA7IrYfg=w640-h426" title="The "Tacoma Ken Brown" sights in on the Plover" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">After a bit, other birders arrived, and I got them onto
the bird. We enjoyed good views of the visitor.<span> </span>At
one point, we saw someone bringing a dog down the beach toward us and were
worried that the beast might spook the plover, but it turned out to be Tacoma
birder Ken Brown, and his well-behaved dog on a leash.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcgk5tAAtq-B_IGuvD_BHPqYRI-7tuRU88GjRSsJ_Nh8XaAszkgXQMH6Ze8UpX2TXFXWvLKjwA8V7Vg8KNhwH7KcqoSrtZ3bNV2iP9gPvE88eZzaCoz7a-El8dyGk5sKhHBTQkI4r-Df7YA77nP3Om7clOG73WecOpTV37qlPY49EjmAOK1DGyKySXPg=s1323" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1323" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcgk5tAAtq-B_IGuvD_BHPqYRI-7tuRU88GjRSsJ_Nh8XaAszkgXQMH6Ze8UpX2TXFXWvLKjwA8V7Vg8KNhwH7KcqoSrtZ3bNV2iP9gPvE88eZzaCoz7a-El8dyGk5sKhHBTQkI4r-Df7YA77nP3Om7clOG73WecOpTV37qlPY49EjmAOK1DGyKySXPg=w640-h390" title="First Winter Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Besides the plover, another uncommon bird on the beach
today was an immature Glaucous Gull.<span>
</span>This northern species is larger and paler than the more-common
Glaucous-winged Gulls that are ubiquitous in Puget Sound and the Washington
Coast.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhti6xWhgcl_fDceDc2WIwzSwDgWB5ts1l-Up_GhW_jlzZFtAfv31fwpRC3sWrD6oapPJqChcZxVaxg1BxRkzmJzE8Nv_UGcsuDwm_8jS2EGnLRv5QxpWu0l28e2sEl4LZ6yoCxJCNZ8RjqMUmcItLCy8lvOlDawzF7Bpzd2TN8p9kPvejZA2xLsChNtQ=s1505" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1505" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhti6xWhgcl_fDceDc2WIwzSwDgWB5ts1l-Up_GhW_jlzZFtAfv31fwpRC3sWrD6oapPJqChcZxVaxg1BxRkzmJzE8Nv_UGcsuDwm_8jS2EGnLRv5QxpWu0l28e2sEl4LZ6yoCxJCNZ8RjqMUmcItLCy8lvOlDawzF7Bpzd2TN8p9kPvejZA2xLsChNtQ=w640-h412" title="The Mountain Plover bid us adieu" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">After we had our fill of plover-watching, I returned to
Copalis Beach and had lunch with the <i>Olympia</i> Ken Brown (yes, there are
two of them….) and Whittier at the <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g58417-d2456630-Reviews-Green_Lantern_Tavern-Copalis_Beach_Washington.html" target="_blank">Green Lantern Tavern</a>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8zDe0qGpyV0Fa9ReKcmRHax9a-KtB5pD8Y9ySZ0qBaO9jyFSALvJ6b7xXG4Kh9JFY2azW58OFK567xaK05JFPymEyLG3XwfaaWF-R2u4xo7TVTWLJI2P5PF2eSVWwyziOSMNWJvswawRuGa2eUAr1lrZd4qDz4p5T2ZZqsH-kMRdMaywIazrOrVxCww=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8zDe0qGpyV0Fa9ReKcmRHax9a-KtB5pD8Y9ySZ0qBaO9jyFSALvJ6b7xXG4Kh9JFY2azW58OFK567xaK05JFPymEyLG3XwfaaWF-R2u4xo7TVTWLJI2P5PF2eSVWwyziOSMNWJvswawRuGa2eUAr1lrZd4qDz4p5T2ZZqsH-kMRdMaywIazrOrVxCww=w640-h426" title="Forked-horn Blacktail" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Since I was at the Coast (I don’t think native
Northwesterners ever call it “the Beach”… it would be like calling Interstate 5
“the Five”, rather than just I-5… just wrong!), I stopped to scope the Ocean
Shore “settling” ponds and the base of the Point Brown jetty before heading
home.<span> </span>Driving through Ocean Shores, it
is always well to expect deer in the road.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9EeW-cwbWtmielflVpp5ueklG6LJ8XqSNdpPfoD-lc7Rkz2320dsJkJ56jogvq9jJXQhLvGSXtG3bltg2BmZr-9zXxn1qRAknaBfn0cCmT8g7yZqOy6kV4EKyZHPFHU0QwtT4osUc1YQwXp23CzkwH0AJguwvnVczPkDHsP8D4UREwMyEg8XkYfA2vA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9EeW-cwbWtmielflVpp5ueklG6LJ8XqSNdpPfoD-lc7Rkz2320dsJkJ56jogvq9jJXQhLvGSXtG3bltg2BmZr-9zXxn1qRAknaBfn0cCmT8g7yZqOy6kV4EKyZHPFHU0QwtT4osUc1YQwXp23CzkwH0AJguwvnVczPkDHsP8D4UREwMyEg8XkYfA2vA=w640-h426" title="Lop-eared Three-Point" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Now, here’s another Northwestern Grammar Point that I need to
address:<span> </span>This is regarding describing
the “horns” on a Columbian Black-tailed Deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus columbianus</i>).
<span> </span>The points on the buck Black-tails’ antlers
here are counted differently to that of the eastern white-tails.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_mfj0LTibFcHH1cRalj8DzH_PcBLIpnzwJG92kNxo1r3uNWDbZx1Gbpsrp2TmVkytNydc86B0GUbw2xcGfdqONU14Wiyw3jiT-ceZUR3M-mAvo7FzHaFeYdGnDvfPhXZyBOQ7mRG8qCZ8pL9S8QB9l5PGceyJDsIAIAALYkp-LbPyfyzoj9XWlrUROw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_mfj0LTibFcHH1cRalj8DzH_PcBLIpnzwJG92kNxo1r3uNWDbZx1Gbpsrp2TmVkytNydc86B0GUbw2xcGfdqONU14Wiyw3jiT-ceZUR3M-mAvo7FzHaFeYdGnDvfPhXZyBOQ7mRG8qCZ8pL9S8QB9l5PGceyJDsIAIAALYkp-LbPyfyzoj9XWlrUROw=w640-h426" title="This is a Three-Point, not an "eight-point"..." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">"Out East", every point is counted, including the piddly
little ‘brow tines’.<span> </span>Here, you only
count the main tines on <i>one</i> antler.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigB7NNati83m_EmWsgyKdTjK_S8hSHt13OXgeodr1U3OgakaO-qQkRnjBCUT8Sjw08I-Q9SI1hTsJJ8c5nHvpXUdemz2wYXQMW3PmkdlGuXIqzGO1-3SqwR89gI6OTT85vjqmAeKNH3lCJLlPI9-4EZ1FUywHrC2JX-Hhly48QDak9O3vrjVrwQ2gl7A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigB7NNati83m_EmWsgyKdTjK_S8hSHt13OXgeodr1U3OgakaO-qQkRnjBCUT8Sjw08I-Q9SI1hTsJJ8c5nHvpXUdemz2wYXQMW3PmkdlGuXIqzGO1-3SqwR89gI6OTT85vjqmAeKNH3lCJLlPI9-4EZ1FUywHrC2JX-Hhly48QDak9O3vrjVrwQ2gl7A=w640-h426" title="Still only a Three-Point" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">If the ‘rack’ is uneven, you can call it a “Three by Two”,
although referring to it as a “little three-point” is entirely acceptable.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgltd-4TSJaY9x870IXZKmwzF1-jiTXzFR3Kj699oBLaQj5R0V7BtbtSOJNkq1TylWfcCp9wz6oAhH7SDR3Zvq55zH8sX0_B5z74Q3f8F-Ol57MGMSXaeYMVgd_w7Py063_-W1qDLi4XPDUZNW8KXL85xp9CqYT4SyGxGxISu78H-JSYa9fcz5FbFaVJQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="2048" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgltd-4TSJaY9x870IXZKmwzF1-jiTXzFR3Kj699oBLaQj5R0V7BtbtSOJNkq1TylWfcCp9wz6oAhH7SDR3Zvq55zH8sX0_B5z74Q3f8F-Ol57MGMSXaeYMVgd_w7Py063_-W1qDLi4XPDUZNW8KXL85xp9CqYT4SyGxGxISu78H-JSYa9fcz5FbFaVJQ=w640-h422" title=""Fork-edd" Horn . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It’s OK to call a “Two-Point” a “Forked-Horn”.<span> </span>In fact, that’s the preferred nomenclature.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikRdB81bHadcsYDHIh_RgTInWu_mvJSr0izAhS-TaKrn4A8bapPtwT7uzDMD1ZapBtl74zpQjxT6LHvaMvEJWlYcVu9hCMagSRJ8UX2pf-4kFJi5_i6HkwBQAZbYDPGey0U37I1MMYULHoRtop0CvP5LlVHJiKHatMBY4OxfNiJUzFD6hcves276Yrbg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikRdB81bHadcsYDHIh_RgTInWu_mvJSr0izAhS-TaKrn4A8bapPtwT7uzDMD1ZapBtl74zpQjxT6LHvaMvEJWlYcVu9hCMagSRJ8UX2pf-4kFJi5_i6HkwBQAZbYDPGey0U37I1MMYULHoRtop0CvP5LlVHJiKHatMBY4OxfNiJUzFD6hcves276Yrbg=w640-h426" title="All Three Species in this pic . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Back to Birds. The treatment ponds are just east of the jetty, and can
often hold a good diversity of birds, but were pretty empty today.<span> </span>The base of the jetty, on the other hand, had
a nice set of “rockpipers” to sort through. The main three ‘pipers’ here are the Black Turnstone, the
Surfbird, and the Rock Sandpiper.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCAoWKK0GNsZPIsQEpYTFM6vu0InR_R-0MvrnStfbkKbubKS-l3Fc8DA5x7cO144NH4NidIw_pL2lYATnWtyyVuiscz2_L3DUhDRHhL-vtnjq-zgC4L5xBymF_dbBGNlPMdSvm6w3p6Dlr0BX1BOBCDgLYjlet-nutJzhMJXmK3nXn7C59PNAPGaRrA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="2048" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCAoWKK0GNsZPIsQEpYTFM6vu0InR_R-0MvrnStfbkKbubKS-l3Fc8DA5x7cO144NH4NidIw_pL2lYATnWtyyVuiscz2_L3DUhDRHhL-vtnjq-zgC4L5xBymF_dbBGNlPMdSvm6w3p6Dlr0BX1BOBCDgLYjlet-nutJzhMJXmK3nXn7C59PNAPGaRrA=w640-h352" title="Surfbird (Aphriza virgata) on the left; Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis) on the right" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Rock Sandpiper superficially resembles the Surfbird with a spotted breast and yellowish legs,
but is smaller and has a longer bill.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1nSNKaPMnw7H7r-9si3XIaH1s-PJDNFwGisbp-0cJonFjjTAXkC5esQ8EqSywyOHaljGcoH2xhrFcEMsjI67I33nH7gN_XCqHABD-9brMeeoQXolhTIAh-wGSf6I4rgShr4waWjPMY5NSRu4fUSG-_GQc0qDgZZKiLuH-DeA6ZtHYMR8WiBxcgCph-w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1nSNKaPMnw7H7r-9si3XIaH1s-PJDNFwGisbp-0cJonFjjTAXkC5esQ8EqSywyOHaljGcoH2xhrFcEMsjI67I33nH7gN_XCqHABD-9brMeeoQXolhTIAh-wGSf6I4rgShr4waWjPMY5NSRu4fUSG-_GQc0qDgZZKiLuH-DeA6ZtHYMR8WiBxcgCph-w=w640-h426" title="Black Turnstones (Arenaria melanocephala)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Black Turnstones are almost always found on rocks around
here.<span> </span>This is ‘way different to the
Ruddy Turnstone, which are often/usually found on beaches, and likely reflects
differences in the diets of the two species.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD7xrTBjVNrqppOacQIQsvLKoRe8Ow3csg948ZiaFWuOdtV_l9HH7EL3GkEZWIeJtX9I5QtyHalTSldrqWnTxHAljehJ9zZLvYs8XtCP-o4sKFLnaJBbR5ia2dsJLuCwsrk8SaCIEuYzxvzefdNrsCEaUABtGiV_R_aNCtsFoj5fA4YeQGF2Zr73o8eA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="2048" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD7xrTBjVNrqppOacQIQsvLKoRe8Ow3csg948ZiaFWuOdtV_l9HH7EL3GkEZWIeJtX9I5QtyHalTSldrqWnTxHAljehJ9zZLvYs8XtCP-o4sKFLnaJBbR5ia2dsJLuCwsrk8SaCIEuYzxvzefdNrsCEaUABtGiV_R_aNCtsFoj5fA4YeQGF2Zr73o8eA=w640-h372" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Mountain Plover wasn’t a “Life Bird”, but was the 607<sup>th</sup>
species I’ve seen this “Peregrination” year, and it was a good day spent with
the birds and birders.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Griffith-Priday State Park eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61933902" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ocean Shores STP eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61937174" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Point Brown Jetty eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61939089" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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<p> </p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-85146613559832304322021-10-23T13:36:00.000-07:002021-10-23T13:36:01.967-07:00November 27, 2019 - Thankful to Be Back in the Pacific Northwest<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was awake at 5:30, so got up on a 39<span>º</span>, calm, mostly cloudy morning.<span> </span>The wind is supposed to pick up today.<span> </span>I made coffees then headed out to <a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/billy_frank_jr_nisqually/" target="_blank">Nisqually Refuge</a> to join the “Wednesday Walk” birders for a day’s outing.<span> </span>After being on the road and out of my ‘home
range’ for several weeks, it is well to be back in the Pacific Northwest.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW9hPRRxvFN8lw3WS43nhF9KbGQkKop6xEee63EbwoNqfia5QzdhpFMT5SV5j2QooRAv6dUrmlY_5gQ2SlbuB3JPnc6_0J3h-GhMC6nbfr6TH5dRoLFtBzYaUvaoIh33nroNR-HFC839FpOyQXYRheLCrDj2jk2K2-0aqoEVXZnzyzuwbA15piYDfyYA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="2048" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW9hPRRxvFN8lw3WS43nhF9KbGQkKop6xEee63EbwoNqfia5QzdhpFMT5SV5j2QooRAv6dUrmlY_5gQ2SlbuB3JPnc6_0J3h-GhMC6nbfr6TH5dRoLFtBzYaUvaoIh33nroNR-HFC839FpOyQXYRheLCrDj2jk2K2-0aqoEVXZnzyzuwbA15piYDfyYA=w640-h368" title="What would America do without Volunteers?" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Several Refuge Volunteers help lead the walk, which
begins at 8 a.m. at the Visitors’ Center each week on the Wednesday.<span> </span>Here, volunteer Shep Thorp explains bird
identification and behavior to one of the birding participants.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkDMb3Th-sge0arrTrxZO4_NzJ66UArwlzDA35gBe-WABd_yGlkMl-7AMNPyVxyI1mzZKDcGeIbuzDjij-HPL0Q1f_lQ6yX86AmUWEPAtXO_OVfmxBNkXs2A04w1adLe9XH49PxIGpG86J5FemeHhSzXjyU9o-5IMTomSdoSl2CUUHprYeccKil2n9fg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkDMb3Th-sge0arrTrxZO4_NzJ66UArwlzDA35gBe-WABd_yGlkMl-7AMNPyVxyI1mzZKDcGeIbuzDjij-HPL0Q1f_lQ6yX86AmUWEPAtXO_OVfmxBNkXs2A04w1adLe9XH49PxIGpG86J5FemeHhSzXjyU9o-5IMTomSdoSl2CUUHprYeccKil2n9fg=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The “usual” track of the walk is through the orchard and
out toward the estuary afterward.<span>
</span>However, today we worked our way toward the estuary boardwalk, as there
was a morning high tide.<span> </span>The flood
pushes birds toward the dike and walkway, where we hope to get views of
anything unusual, and better counts for the eBird report.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh491DJxSCfwVVE6ntcIdHJQnlpLJfTZkGSdidh6SV2n8SMkmbhZYiZ5RG9H3h3xvdXNsaqAlI3w8uUZO0ClAi1u5YaKhQ5sqmrSKB6s8-pBHRsfda-DffODCkUNdPzQ7i5rjX5gYDkTgLSf9BXdie0DvCBPMKOfCG_-Q3u76JwptjX7fYfeq6X_B28rg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2048" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh491DJxSCfwVVE6ntcIdHJQnlpLJfTZkGSdidh6SV2n8SMkmbhZYiZ5RG9H3h3xvdXNsaqAlI3w8uUZO0ClAi1u5YaKhQ5sqmrSKB6s8-pBHRsfda-DffODCkUNdPzQ7i5rjX5gYDkTgLSf9BXdie0DvCBPMKOfCG_-Q3u76JwptjX7fYfeq6X_B28rg=w640-h392" title="It seems that the Eurasian Wigeon stay out far enough that I can't get a decent photo with my little lens . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">When the tide is out, this area is a mudflat, and the
birds can be over ¼ mile away.<span> </span>As it is,
we often need spotting scopes for even the “close” birds.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYKkduKyNGkI5aVfn9reXftU6VV6DqzOHs2TmS3FkVqkAQJ2IsNw2LQTa3GnnUCovS5l1CfS0Il30ck8oQ5GgWD7BPEQ2xQ7KYDHvClLrt5JYImU6WYb53GhkxH0ttcpyeqo0DAZqfU-fOjxvBFbuSFM4zZsBzILU1uW1IOgfku7NGFE-GOyTROR7O7A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYKkduKyNGkI5aVfn9reXftU6VV6DqzOHs2TmS3FkVqkAQJ2IsNw2LQTa3GnnUCovS5l1CfS0Il30ck8oQ5GgWD7BPEQ2xQ7KYDHvClLrt5JYImU6WYb53GhkxH0ttcpyeqo0DAZqfU-fOjxvBFbuSFM4zZsBzILU1uW1IOgfku7NGFE-GOyTROR7O7A=w438-h640" width="438" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The north end of the boardwalk itself is closed during
the waterfowl hunting season.<span> </span>Nisqually Refuge
is owned by the federal U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and doesn’t allow
hunting.<span> </span>However, the adjacent “State
marsh” is owned by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, which
provides public hunting access.<span> </span>Since
the Feds built the estuary boardwalk out to the property boundary, they close
the distal 215 meters of the boardwalk for the safety of the Refuge visitors during the three-month hunting season.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaSpAEYXA7os4oqGsqVW31unNLCQHib9eVYgvi7KQOduk6aYe4jvYKG5-AaUPf3GvGUbCSafafGvHYimVgQKBXOIL2RsM7105sdyiwwp7PX1f0R5oxC3tPUf6-gAHQLQtgxuSBhGaHWMQssMhgnHa2UiugDXPkJdr00qF1_WTjyryeD_p2QNyCJ-KqBQ=s1269" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1269" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaSpAEYXA7os4oqGsqVW31unNLCQHib9eVYgvi7KQOduk6aYe4jvYKG5-AaUPf3GvGUbCSafafGvHYimVgQKBXOIL2RsM7105sdyiwwp7PX1f0R5oxC3tPUf6-gAHQLQtgxuSBhGaHWMQssMhgnHa2UiugDXPkJdr00qF1_WTjyryeD_p2QNyCJ-KqBQ=w640-h376" title="American wigeon (Mareca americana) - 2 hens and a drake" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4rEJ8UfFg-gcTDBXYAhHoj4knOCKdaoS4rvgZfj87uB-y5AFH4u8uZTs2ISh6qf2LhVv-gMT1rSFMMiKw2bWVpGW90nJmRlK2QLzV_kn8nj1E0OUiSU7_RRpiqa4C7FiuuUtMEwK3v9iru2Hz3_TM5O4jHAsNd5wyKbeP4i4AWPmCShC8_YwIbIKANg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2048" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4rEJ8UfFg-gcTDBXYAhHoj4knOCKdaoS4rvgZfj87uB-y5AFH4u8uZTs2ISh6qf2LhVv-gMT1rSFMMiKw2bWVpGW90nJmRlK2QLzV_kn8nj1E0OUiSU7_RRpiqa4C7FiuuUtMEwK3v9iru2Hz3_TM5O4jHAsNd5wyKbeP4i4AWPmCShC8_YwIbIKANg=w640-h372" title="Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) hen and drake" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The waterfowl take the opportunity to feed in the intertidal
zone, away from the hunters.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3KmyNinhkrKLmW-5f2X56tQE8dvs-YkISsVMoKp1cl87_osekUMP-SkM8aE5z2SUxmeOaNHQ9dK2RKovCqRcLMYfT3lGBEgf30jmYVtDYE0jRy3yBM2x4qnt1RCap1RWKn_xRf0lTGqj8TRpdsEwWxGR0nTci5zYSVQUzhJ9BhAD3LLpeUXpOG1WAuw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3KmyNinhkrKLmW-5f2X56tQE8dvs-YkISsVMoKp1cl87_osekUMP-SkM8aE5z2SUxmeOaNHQ9dK2RKovCqRcLMYfT3lGBEgf30jmYVtDYE0jRy3yBM2x4qnt1RCap1RWKn_xRf0lTGqj8TRpdsEwWxGR0nTci5zYSVQUzhJ9BhAD3LLpeUXpOG1WAuw=w426-h640" title="Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Great Blue Herons are opportunistic foragers.<span> </span>When the tide is out, we can get good counts
of this species feeding on fish and shore crabs in the mudflats.<span> </span>When the tide is in, they move to the fields
and freshwater marsh to feed on frogs, salamanders, garter snakes, and field mice (voles).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga6DV6JrfRAklOJC2Wa6V181-CeetDqq8rU3fBgDn9rjsjVsf7HtatAS6_ToOCUrTuG5mRrXU3xt3tpiqpF2-RB7o6XJzcmc-iEiUOpGoNYo3Hzv8cqY8KJdtogUuDTQwv4bQMo2HsfGJQCEzmEFyuy8RPEbr83bVkt3ZfAPswpHGrULYhJeBhxrHTGQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1215" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga6DV6JrfRAklOJC2Wa6V181-CeetDqq8rU3fBgDn9rjsjVsf7HtatAS6_ToOCUrTuG5mRrXU3xt3tpiqpF2-RB7o6XJzcmc-iEiUOpGoNYo3Hzv8cqY8KJdtogUuDTQwv4bQMo2HsfGJQCEzmEFyuy8RPEbr83bVkt3ZfAPswpHGrULYhJeBhxrHTGQ=w640-h380" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We returned as the tide ebbed, and birded along the east
side of the Twin Barns boardwalk loop, stopping to scope the Nisqually River
overlook and checking out the Riparian overlook.<span> </span>Here, a Belted Kingfisher surveys the slough
at the Riparian boardwalk for her lunch.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisUTM4i6xOSoMPGyDrW8FIxSIKqJ46qBNhHYPKeBhXw8cV87HbjUQCGY9A_7-6cIxSb375X2j5oMLMeRKGWV_ZvJ_RJsvVsDn4UJlrqckYHcxTVFlQjPrrbbz_5WZEiyLFwPaoWem9vUhL2IXM59pOEJzhvzatuXadg52l9Ao9sKpUwLMFPCKhjb3eig=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisUTM4i6xOSoMPGyDrW8FIxSIKqJ46qBNhHYPKeBhXw8cV87HbjUQCGY9A_7-6cIxSb375X2j5oMLMeRKGWV_ZvJ_RJsvVsDn4UJlrqckYHcxTVFlQjPrrbbz_5WZEiyLFwPaoWem9vUhL2IXM59pOEJzhvzatuXadg52l9Ao9sKpUwLMFPCKhjb3eig=w640-h426" title=""Leave the Fruit for the Wildlife" . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We ended up walking through the orchard in the
afternoon.<span> </span>The trees here are venerable,
and were part of the old Brown’s Farm before the property was acquired by the Federal
Refuge in 1974.<span> </span>The current Refuge
management has pretty well neglected this Heritage orchard, with the idea that
the trees are not ‘native’.<span> </span>In fact,
they have planted ‘native’ firs and spruces amongst the apples and pears, that
will quicken the demise of the old fruit trees.<span>
</span>It seems that a 100-year-old orchard might qualify under the provisions
of the Antiquities Act, but . . . .</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZsBes5bJAXzmwSv7hHh6aLk60sMyFpZ2YnA9q2jCjfjohzgsuVTk5rQYAe_t9TBTkcxTwdBdFXKJZfe1dpZbE4AtMCZ6zkYVL7mpxLKc_JGacJpOCcs1jo9KuTiWZVucE19t6oEhxil5mvONX3IDezrZjZtdCQsQB02TLU4uGp7ogqgXfhBu2voVtA=s1820" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1820" data-original-width="1196" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZsBes5bJAXzmwSv7hHh6aLk60sMyFpZ2YnA9q2jCjfjohzgsuVTk5rQYAe_t9TBTkcxTwdBdFXKJZfe1dpZbE4AtMCZ6zkYVL7mpxLKc_JGacJpOCcs1jo9KuTiWZVucE19t6oEhxil5mvONX3IDezrZjZtdCQsQB02TLU4uGp7ogqgXfhBu2voVtA=w420-h640" title="Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)" width="420" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Often, bird activity here slows down after the morning ‘rush’,
but today we saw several of our ‘target’ species, including great views of a
Red-breasted Sapsucker.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPOcjjhpqBVczHPNxbG6kfZ-KMr9am7Ti0h-R9YcYj9IikwtTTxmPiZfpq7aPA9NtNvVWD28j60fhBPJipe6RmSiAXKlDnUMlUob9KGGAxIdPz5m4_sv8HBuOOJObB39xG59FM5mQVhWwVFSVcEG3FYcbbkpZl8k8GeAfwI665peVW66c8W5eclzHxGA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPOcjjhpqBVczHPNxbG6kfZ-KMr9am7Ti0h-R9YcYj9IikwtTTxmPiZfpq7aPA9NtNvVWD28j60fhBPJipe6RmSiAXKlDnUMlUob9KGGAxIdPz5m4_sv8HBuOOJObB39xG59FM5mQVhWwVFSVcEG3FYcbbkpZl8k8GeAfwI665peVW66c8W5eclzHxGA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Nisqually Wednesday Bird Walk bunch is pretty friendly,
welcoming, and informative.<span> </span>Those
attending include novice birders, experts to provide help to the novices, as well
as a number of folks with a wide array of natural history expertise and
training; sometimes, it’s not just about the birds!<span> </span>And, it’s always about the people.<span> </span>Hope to see you out here one of these Wednesdays.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61825900" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPWo2pPqULmc696-YJ49NKSDuGWwpBL6HHD12tgdbI_FPoo4XENlMEiISXQY2RetPCpv0UQVI0TFQAyf1tFrCjWT5OAzCFsz9JWQXytn0z3NCwq3dFkP9M2DVEWIW6XjKXUNlJ1kEyJuaE1-Zv27fBVPeT4A7NY7-E70TcEZznw5QbJy-OfBsQI3E_1Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1479" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPWo2pPqULmc696-YJ49NKSDuGWwpBL6HHD12tgdbI_FPoo4XENlMEiISXQY2RetPCpv0UQVI0TFQAyf1tFrCjWT5OAzCFsz9JWQXytn0z3NCwq3dFkP9M2DVEWIW6XjKXUNlJ1kEyJuaE1-Zv27fBVPeT4A7NY7-E70TcEZznw5QbJy-OfBsQI3E_1Q=w462-h640" title="Distant Merlin (Falco columbarius)" width="462" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p>
Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, 100 Brown Farm Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98516, USA47.072769 -122.712728818.762535163821155 -157.86897879999998 75.383002836178846 -87.5564788tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-91601691519697305862021-10-22T13:30:00.001-07:002021-10-22T13:30:30.298-07:00November 24, 2019 - Kern River Blues<p>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjorGRKv_MZFQU9MZzhGGgmSUEq8bT17h9M4BKqrhb51dv4twuixDAB4SFcYCa-njSEEQHSNM7IKwqde0N_T0bIvTCUD6BoEExDnU2MeSCG6-TracjPbdFDOsXQ7aGrYpqSTDEz4RktDF9J-5mffuZIu25_ryiW5Z3rF56e4QCWCJFBEq-KQ3wLctYHjA=s963" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="963" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjorGRKv_MZFQU9MZzhGGgmSUEq8bT17h9M4BKqrhb51dv4twuixDAB4SFcYCa-njSEEQHSNM7IKwqde0N_T0bIvTCUD6BoEExDnU2MeSCG6-TracjPbdFDOsXQ7aGrYpqSTDEz4RktDF9J-5mffuZIu25_ryiW5Z3rF56e4QCWCJFBEq-KQ3wLctYHjA=w640-h406" title="Western Bluebird at Lake Isabella - not to be confused with Merle Haggard's Kern River Blues ..." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I slept in until 6 a.m. this morning, waking to a calm,
32<span>º morning with clear skies. Checking
out of the motel, I headed west at 7:30, with the hopes of finding a Mountain Plover
near Alpaugh, where several had been <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61336179" target="_blank">reported on eBird</a>.<span> </span>I’m nearing home, and after having been on the
road for over three weeks, am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfS389g8FuTaqOtN4fTVxVN_RMArWc9bPCd5glIEd3d3I1LTvi4jjva4Qi8jfeE4nXrlC2b2Up0i6_J5NcoIpsJn3QUqWHl-iLGsBdd10kXg78erAXA_sVjXbjMlPPvma6YQ6_ae2MzsipDW7MeTCUNpoXCCd20HNY8erV2RxSBc4IdJj_DmlPhtWJrQ=s1486" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1486" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfS389g8FuTaqOtN4fTVxVN_RMArWc9bPCd5glIEd3d3I1LTvi4jjva4Qi8jfeE4nXrlC2b2Up0i6_J5NcoIpsJn3QUqWHl-iLGsBdd10kXg78erAXA_sVjXbjMlPPvma6YQ6_ae2MzsipDW7MeTCUNpoXCCd20HNY8erV2RxSBc4IdJj_DmlPhtWJrQ=w640-h374" title="Greeted by a Mockingbird" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>En route, I drove
past Lake Isabella, a reservoir of the Kern River that was created by the Army
Corps of Engineers in 1953.<span> </span>The poor
river’s water historically barely made it to the ocean, and now, barely makes
it to the Valley floor, being completely diverted for municipal and
agricultural uses.<span> </span>I stopped at the U.S.
Forest Service Tillie Creek campground for a break in driving and to do a little
bit of birding.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikC4nUF_SoAy3tUNjUjsTmjP0zZPFzeisXl9azhU5mYTWSDqAmKmrB95kbGzVQOGESyeW1KEMGTCWkZp5zRPSKFfm-Tjnt_8flVoXZCBk69n-GqrHn5iAwXKKyVH7fGWgryYUr8L8kKs1bOz0QJVcFgqpK5dV3OuxWjPenkxPAZlImtgBC2uffosK6AQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikC4nUF_SoAy3tUNjUjsTmjP0zZPFzeisXl9azhU5mYTWSDqAmKmrB95kbGzVQOGESyeW1KEMGTCWkZp5zRPSKFfm-Tjnt_8flVoXZCBk69n-GqrHn5iAwXKKyVH7fGWgryYUr8L8kKs1bOz0QJVcFgqpK5dV3OuxWjPenkxPAZlImtgBC2uffosK6AQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>The campground comprises
8 sites nestled among oaks and Digger Pine trees, and there were a few
California bird species that I wanted to pick up for my “Peregrination” year
while I’m in the vicinity.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6KHIyQNV8JW2NWMsxxSNNT4rqTP5snIUn0Sz3VYGhoT-xw8_rXMyX2z-KSPjpSNbgHE4UqCsDIo_-KYUS3hmU22msRX1IpoTmMty04pg7VujpqPUr1FYg7OzfXlZP14QOvXiIBWfuZVGfjkPeMQ93jE0TYg-_vjQqY3QoghpqI2IAwdJP1vBqfUn54A=s1145" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1145" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6KHIyQNV8JW2NWMsxxSNNT4rqTP5snIUn0Sz3VYGhoT-xw8_rXMyX2z-KSPjpSNbgHE4UqCsDIo_-KYUS3hmU22msRX1IpoTmMty04pg7VujpqPUr1FYg7OzfXlZP14QOvXiIBWfuZVGfjkPeMQ93jE0TYg-_vjQqY3QoghpqI2IAwdJP1vBqfUn54A=w640-h408" title="Oak Titmouse - Baeolophus inornatus" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>The Oak Titmouse
acts much like a chickadee, but has a jaunty crest, and tends to be very vocal.
<span> </span>California bird expert Dave Shuford
calls them the “<i>voice and soul of the oaks</i>.”<span>
</span>I love seeing these birds!<span> </span>As
they are one of the species that just barely get into southern Oregon, I didn’t
have a chance to grow up with them in the oaks of the Willamette Valley.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyw04RwY-459ev-UQ6CaM4OeKdwV43fprcQPon5APCXzSpKt7_v6hrOfBwhII9i2dA2OPUalZlgbvJj2ZAWKdTpC4cZK6Z5On1FJjcCqASigf_k48PWczpYCLjX30lCsuCjNn8VMTHv9awjCueHzoykIeoCZC6E_Dstc-TdOfF4ydicyuXol7oLvzfAA=s1287" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1287" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyw04RwY-459ev-UQ6CaM4OeKdwV43fprcQPon5APCXzSpKt7_v6hrOfBwhII9i2dA2OPUalZlgbvJj2ZAWKdTpC4cZK6Z5On1FJjcCqASigf_k48PWczpYCLjX30lCsuCjNn8VMTHv9awjCueHzoykIeoCZC6E_Dstc-TdOfF4ydicyuXol7oLvzfAA=w640-h404" title="Male Nuttall's Woodpecker (Dryobates nuttallii)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>The Nuttall’s
Woodpecker is another bird of the California oaks that I enjoy seeing.<span> </span>This species is fairly similar to the
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers that I’ve seen for the past 2 weeks across the
Southwest, but is a little more “crisp” in appearance.<span> </span>And, like the Titmouse, he was a new species
for my birding “Year” list.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoItoQDPlowDEm73ySHfwtMCbzwZGziKM8Ln8dCBJ7WJAgXOwUjEIRQDDHOwK1UH4De1FFGk_gPMNDWjJEZkhJieYwdX_3oxm_bYLrl6_e39lWyxWH9XSASf_mJStWlH-0aa5Rcz-5AEV-NJwA0p0SH3JQvAAcn668of3KWEEqGjiRZW5U4PvrkpHNQ=s1155" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1155" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoItoQDPlowDEm73ySHfwtMCbzwZGziKM8Ln8dCBJ7WJAgXOwUjEIRQDDHOwK1UH4De1FFGk_gPMNDWjJEZkhJieYwdX_3oxm_bYLrl6_e39lWyxWH9XSASf_mJStWlH-0aa5Rcz-5AEV-NJwA0p0SH3JQvAAcn668of3KWEEqGjiRZW5U4PvrkpHNQ=w640-h480" title="The pine cone next to a Ben Dye Canvasback decoy (repaired with a Scott Jackson head)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>I picked up a
large, hefty cone from one of the Digger pines (<i>Pinus sabiniana</i>) and
took it home for a decoration on the fireplace mantle or bookshelf.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkgMJ62lL0xgtqlN1zrrkdmGRrgHjQHqBnMPynV0lfxOeSQvyxtwi4j3lknR-fub2bCkEagLpwuvTqmK9q7OZH0Jly62c7C21ZLRxhv9iQ2QvhKEN1G0C1YQQQ_s5JNYTV-M12nssl1-lnRK6FXJQpOtJBV2Tl04ht7y6Nchb7a4_yctBbAgvCcLYcEA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="409" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkgMJ62lL0xgtqlN1zrrkdmGRrgHjQHqBnMPynV0lfxOeSQvyxtwi4j3lknR-fub2bCkEagLpwuvTqmK9q7OZH0Jly62c7C21ZLRxhv9iQ2QvhKEN1G0C1YQQQ_s5JNYTV-M12nssl1-lnRK6FXJQpOtJBV2Tl04ht7y6Nchb7a4_yctBbAgvCcLYcEA=w476-h640" title="Baby Digger Pine" width="476" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>Note from
2021:<span> </span>After the cone dried, I found a
number of seeds had fallen out.<span> </span>So, I took
them outside and planted them in pots, getting a half-dozen seedlings.<span> </span>Our wet Pacific Northwest back yard is likely
<i>not </i>their preferred habitat, so I’ll need to find a home for them where their
feet can dry out over the winters.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI9vFcXdRF2OPLxS8zF-8hPO4L3M0-RmB6AAza69bczPXV0uFsoUamH0ek-4O9PqoCvrfYlBA-gs2rkNERSqBDtFfCxLKoIVxS2r1X6YybyTsogWN2HoAXTHXs-oSIoRHHEUzGZQWPMV0NTflT80A6nhZ76jlaed76ibbNgqVFhcvpRUA2yryhF2RxpQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI9vFcXdRF2OPLxS8zF-8hPO4L3M0-RmB6AAza69bczPXV0uFsoUamH0ek-4O9PqoCvrfYlBA-gs2rkNERSqBDtFfCxLKoIVxS2r1X6YybyTsogWN2HoAXTHXs-oSIoRHHEUzGZQWPMV0NTflT80A6nhZ76jlaed76ibbNgqVFhcvpRUA2yryhF2RxpQ=w640-h334" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>Leaving the
campground, I headed west on Highway 155, where I was pleasantly slowed by a
drove of beef cattle.<span> </span>I was content to
trail behind the beasts until they turned off into their next pasture, but one
of the youngsters rode up, said “follow me” and pushed her way through the herd
with me following in the Subaru.<span> </span>Very
professional!</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ_bA4eei4XsgAMUqPBXW7JP251Our4Un7wiFA5KOCtJEG3QEaMMf1WolbiNHvqQXZlip-98vvSK0zOxtvb-XPJRHi7Ar0t-LCkJ02Tox7RZstc6XFciIKKk_1POV7kZMNek-FYsgORTP353lUrLL8USx_m4Hh7dhUxnB5B1XKobf0_xNWrDroBKM0QQ=s1446" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="1446" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ_bA4eei4XsgAMUqPBXW7JP251Our4Un7wiFA5KOCtJEG3QEaMMf1WolbiNHvqQXZlip-98vvSK0zOxtvb-XPJRHi7Ar0t-LCkJ02Tox7RZstc6XFciIKKk_1POV7kZMNek-FYsgORTP353lUrLL8USx_m4Hh7dhUxnB5B1XKobf0_xNWrDroBKM0QQ=w640-h404" title="Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span>Making it into
the San Joaquin Valley and the farm fields around the Tulare County community
of Alpaugh, I searched through the flocks of sparrows, pipits, and Horned Larks
for a Mountain Plover.<span> </span>But, failing in
that, </span>I headed into Coalinga and had a tri-tip sandwich at the Harris
Ranch for lunch, then drove pretty much straight through to Red Bluff, where I
checked into the America’s Best Value Inn.<span>
</span>I walked down to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewThaiHouse/" target="_blank">Thai House</a> and had the Drunken Noodles for
supper.<span> </span>That and two Singhas cost me
$22.79.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tillie Creek Campground eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61710905" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Alpaugh farm fields eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61738235" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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<![endif]--></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Tillie Creek Campground, Wofford Blvd, Wofford Heights, CA 93285, USA35.7013062 -118.45542077.3910723638211522 -153.6116707 64.011540036178843 -83.2991707tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-16505614755830522692021-10-18T14:51:00.001-07:002021-10-18T14:51:21.768-07:00November 23, 2019 - Birding Myself To Death (Valley)<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMOXuTXJ-UL4NTtZ58dKl_kqyj5NKia67Ywjg9JoHIEQsTO0-bwfkpiEIura0YQ9v7cKylfl2l-aJvmHFmAYuDC_h_W6Oc_tYVsBS6-VLEhROg-w3HjV2XkcH-aszXs4u3jY9iZ7kZBX2PkSO5WIGtdiBTCVGdpHfOEZ0n62uoNFgHSLr55p5XeLnJ9w=s1040" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMOXuTXJ-UL4NTtZ58dKl_kqyj5NKia67Ywjg9JoHIEQsTO0-bwfkpiEIura0YQ9v7cKylfl2l-aJvmHFmAYuDC_h_W6Oc_tYVsBS6-VLEhROg-w3HjV2XkcH-aszXs4u3jY9iZ7kZBX2PkSO5WIGtdiBTCVGdpHfOEZ0n62uoNFgHSLr55p5XeLnJ9w=w640-h480" title="Plenty of Room at the Hotel California . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was awake again at 4:30; any more, it seems to be the
time for me to rise in whichever time zone I’m in.<span> </span>I worked a bit on my Blog entries from last
August (Only 3 months behind, then!).</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUM-wPs-xV_Uxet-e510hmVajTSr5_5tqGLdI1Zs7OIk5DBgXhG2jCEffeS2boOirjbZVXWVzTgndRXDYyFdxcUjzPj4cNCeH4cmgklY3IlSk81vFx17DAodVtQImXySktz2Ytr7hvACSGf8vn4P5WwtUdRa7fuhihKXCYAh41wPEzDPtFFhS9aHeSQA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUM-wPs-xV_Uxet-e510hmVajTSr5_5tqGLdI1Zs7OIk5DBgXhG2jCEffeS2boOirjbZVXWVzTgndRXDYyFdxcUjzPj4cNCeH4cmgklY3IlSk81vFx17DAodVtQImXySktz2Ytr7hvACSGf8vn4P5WwtUdRa7fuhihKXCYAh41wPEzDPtFFhS9aHeSQA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Afterwards, I walked around the hotel
grounds in the dawning day, watching the trains go by, reading the town history, and marveling at
the “Burning Man” art.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikq2nm_W1H9lPZA3BOcr6DuGjymdN03Nxj3SmdZ_Pf8KYGTIpYFGthEsWwxB_NPmketBT9FMe5iLUZ4WSYwVgaYCyffSXmcaOcVxh0X1lFf03GOpIxHVJUGGek76kFxid5qoffVYkWKW-6PB6ZbjDkAVdEp5R8edyV-qOdFzgGGKMjruthLcMjqAE1uA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikq2nm_W1H9lPZA3BOcr6DuGjymdN03Nxj3SmdZ_Pf8KYGTIpYFGthEsWwxB_NPmketBT9FMe5iLUZ4WSYwVgaYCyffSXmcaOcVxh0X1lFf03GOpIxHVJUGGek76kFxid5qoffVYkWKW-6PB6ZbjDkAVdEp5R8edyV-qOdFzgGGKMjruthLcMjqAE1uA=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I’d stayed in Room Number 3 last night, which was the
room Clara Bow took when she stayed at the Hotel.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie6TPxMI59GmhV_jtL34Hg8ZF6ExdUtnFVoJcBvxiS_H6dj3PLcJjf_0STP28rI5d5ubkn9MoslbsK48dHa1O89c1T5Ghi5m8-xM8CvBYLbdM7tSuo8W4GtICbpgaTmRAWBbvsJ2P-1Sj7MAiYykudWfTar7XyBXLynZaGFe-3VMLlLhgACSkWDTMxLw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2048" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie6TPxMI59GmhV_jtL34Hg8ZF6ExdUtnFVoJcBvxiS_H6dj3PLcJjf_0STP28rI5d5ubkn9MoslbsK48dHa1O89c1T5Ghi5m8-xM8CvBYLbdM7tSuo8W4GtICbpgaTmRAWBbvsJ2P-1Sj7MAiYykudWfTar7XyBXLynZaGFe-3VMLlLhgACSkWDTMxLw=w640-h404" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The hotel itself was called the Nipton Hotel until
sometime recently, and was established as a stop on the Union Pacific line
between LA and Las Vegas.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcNVwQKJkgFduj5MpFTjQ4UhkaJ2Z9kCDMs2W5J6t_8Uk9yfdm7MF9wki0lNJVWsO_IXM-t20MNQe-Dtr-Ke_JVjHy6YP5OBWomA7OvdWHZRaMpXNLusJWJ5sr4x5zN6mFnDBG6ONzXla664fcTo7kW7Ym_0d8-4L7aNHnIojTIie1v14P-75T8CUNbA=s1039" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1039" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcNVwQKJkgFduj5MpFTjQ4UhkaJ2Z9kCDMs2W5J6t_8Uk9yfdm7MF9wki0lNJVWsO_IXM-t20MNQe-Dtr-Ke_JVjHy6YP5OBWomA7OvdWHZRaMpXNLusJWJ5sr4x5zN6mFnDBG6ONzXla664fcTo7kW7Ym_0d8-4L7aNHnIojTIie1v14P-75T8CUNbA=w640-h390" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-NY4FDXopCn1PU4y0cd-lR19m_pY6kiRcEbjiyrqA0agviKSpUVaqU0JNw0uG8fUwW8uqrMbQx_nsMgkoluICy3Q_H__N3RsSE-pRfyUNglgmYyqMIwxmD03kxYHb9dnwGkhtylNJ_JGRLDdAF7cE187JAsiuze6IfMcYzHQAH9BhWT1P5QWQiCzHJQ=s941" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="941" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-NY4FDXopCn1PU4y0cd-lR19m_pY6kiRcEbjiyrqA0agviKSpUVaqU0JNw0uG8fUwW8uqrMbQx_nsMgkoluICy3Q_H__N3RsSE-pRfyUNglgmYyqMIwxmD03kxYHb9dnwGkhtylNJ_JGRLDdAF7cE187JAsiuze6IfMcYzHQAH9BhWT1P5QWQiCzHJQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The interior of the hotel has maintained its 1920s feel and charm. Not a bad place, and only around $75 for the night's stay. <br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-xJ6j2Qdv9E4H1_yVGvZFES1-EZkpL-6YqQT4N-uinkbCTDx8RCf8yoVahvisXHh8P6IAIzilVxFDNk1iYliQvOoJkqqpFANdu-54OjM7j208AWvMBozF3fJWCHIh0G2-xuDFZf_Uf0pURh3BDTdxyMdpWpa4gd5zPXozurv4a3a8AsxE0J_evY74jg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-xJ6j2Qdv9E4H1_yVGvZFES1-EZkpL-6YqQT4N-uinkbCTDx8RCf8yoVahvisXHh8P6IAIzilVxFDNk1iYliQvOoJkqqpFANdu-54OjM7j208AWvMBozF3fJWCHIh0G2-xuDFZf_Uf0pURh3BDTdxyMdpWpa4gd5zPXozurv4a3a8AsxE0J_evY74jg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The trains no longer stop, but still go by a dozen or so
times a day, and the first train in the morning will likely waken you.<span> </span>The hotel supplies ear plugs alongside the usual
soaps and shampoos.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfGmBLGvtaXocVSw-_tjYMatDbmJOXRgCj81ayr_IiXniRrQb8Sjyhumcsc7PFb5frTYI0h2LbjgY-ZTWrJQXPV26JhyylKosfCbm-hC0ZB9DoQA9-AmXQz2lfOi37reQlmIQnApQw9LSSblWQrgFMRvV1RzfL2TomwUrWSqsQxAZv5oiILXsAz9OM9w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1565" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfGmBLGvtaXocVSw-_tjYMatDbmJOXRgCj81ayr_IiXniRrQb8Sjyhumcsc7PFb5frTYI0h2LbjgY-ZTWrJQXPV26JhyylKosfCbm-hC0ZB9DoQA9-AmXQz2lfOi37reQlmIQnApQw9LSSblWQrgFMRvV1RzfL2TomwUrWSqsQxAZv5oiILXsAz9OM9w=w490-h640" width="490" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The woman behind the counter at the Trading Post told me
that the entire village is owned by CannAwake, an energy development/real estate/cannabis
company that bought the town in 2017 and are fixing it up, running the Hotel,
restaurant and campgrounds, and puting in a local brewery.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC6mXOZ5OKkd9YLJcyjAz6PoiPys1WlLY8Er_Ep8szBYBtPrPvCZK4wg5mvC0hr7KhaMPOum09z3CBJA60zkstH2dQlII8UKnb2Rp5YltsYyCj2Y_2B6I2p6w5z4jwCuFWaSRbmEJri8FXqT6jAZ-6lS80MXm88KEwWHEuZ2e4KDkVeTR1mQV8h-_ggg=s1680" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1680" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC6mXOZ5OKkd9YLJcyjAz6PoiPys1WlLY8Er_Ep8szBYBtPrPvCZK4wg5mvC0hr7KhaMPOum09z3CBJA60zkstH2dQlII8UKnb2Rp5YltsYyCj2Y_2B6I2p6w5z4jwCuFWaSRbmEJri8FXqT6jAZ-6lS80MXm88KEwWHEuZ2e4KDkVeTR1mQV8h-_ggg=w640-h380" title="Immature Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There were a few birds in the area, most evidently a pair
of young Cooper’s Hawks hunting amongst the eucalyptus.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP2TqRUFhsjUD--MOlTb2AkuizSENILFk6KXT_nyujJuKTkWnW1qlaRUPTmAZ7XH9k-dNkxoWbvHsPXNaLyMqqeNspKAWxTO_VTrkTF73Qgyi6oGdL9M9kh4cgsoSYEqDrblzXF4rz7oBnbK1o6ghzc4oG_ZwtMGIou3_ERm9c3qSp6-uON9qV8Z3uaQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP2TqRUFhsjUD--MOlTb2AkuizSENILFk6KXT_nyujJuKTkWnW1qlaRUPTmAZ7XH9k-dNkxoWbvHsPXNaLyMqqeNspKAWxTO_VTrkTF73Qgyi6oGdL9M9kh4cgsoSYEqDrblzXF4rz7oBnbK1o6ghzc4oG_ZwtMGIou3_ERm9c3qSp6-uON9qV8Z3uaQ=w640-h426" title="Is Solar Power, or wind, ever truly "clean"?" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">From town, one can see the Ivanpah Solar Energy plant, built
by Bechtel for Houston-based NRG Energy to sell power to Pacific Gas and
Electric Company and Southern California Edison.<span> </span>Federal biologists estimate about 6,000 birds
die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around
the facility's towers.<span> </span>This is
apparently an acceptable loss of wildlife for America to develop “Clean Energy”
. . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0a-f5XFyg6dypfPYne2LNLKWVeFOtEI3XvZfeA8S8vEWdpjKYW6yVPtEmkHfmUgXLo7Z_MH7BdgUzBeePpz0oNe_UZwZkUyeSBt6H9UiglQLV7VfyhHXBUwJdN3d3V5B0jB2DNEzOQd4Zu12dfFhbReBrtSl-VdsdI6Tgp52qZvDoxIRphxSEHQqjtA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0a-f5XFyg6dypfPYne2LNLKWVeFOtEI3XvZfeA8S8vEWdpjKYW6yVPtEmkHfmUgXLo7Z_MH7BdgUzBeePpz0oNe_UZwZkUyeSBt6H9UiglQLV7VfyhHXBUwJdN3d3V5B0jB2DNEzOQd4Zu12dfFhbReBrtSl-VdsdI6Tgp52qZvDoxIRphxSEHQqjtA=w640-h366" title="Rave-On! Corvus corax" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I left town around 7:30, and made a quick stop at the
Valley Wells Rest Area, where I was greeted by a friendly pair of ravens.<span> </span>They showed less interest as I came and went
with little prospect of their bumming a morning snack.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYyHRrUhDMiw9UX_7cpODCKL1MaBKRvDui9C6qQIIezArD_XCFPiBnZhlF8Ifm8qE3jRomrsfU9cf0QLCBN2xtiEPoF8dTX_7IND12A1t4XBd-GzMbMUH_blPla_nc2e6GQ-t0qKSmZ9wzwg68fjPUzFfu1d2Yrjn7nhzG4FRk-nJaBL38lHSXVJ9MPQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYyHRrUhDMiw9UX_7cpODCKL1MaBKRvDui9C6qQIIezArD_XCFPiBnZhlF8Ifm8qE3jRomrsfU9cf0QLCBN2xtiEPoF8dTX_7IND12A1t4XBd-GzMbMUH_blPla_nc2e6GQ-t0qKSmZ9wzwg68fjPUzFfu1d2Yrjn7nhzG4FRk-nJaBL38lHSXVJ9MPQ=w426-h640" title="Joshua Tree - Yucca brevifolia" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There were a number of Joshua trees, the largest of the
yuccas, here.<span> </span>This yucca grows only in
the Mojave Desert. <span> </span>Its height varies
from 15-40 feet with a diameter of 1-3 feet. <span> </span>They grow 2 to 3 inches a year, takes 50 to 60
years to mature, and they can live 150 years.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0mVvZh5LOXmMRgOMilf7zxrQCrDvvVvZGh51HtofTTiHKzCCMByvC5edVwu4thD3qEX6r43RFfcBSWu-goMx8115dneZNd6e-TfzgSB4a7sTgXj9vrvS8MhefnMDnOkbeC8MtH-cP_0PsIATNgcLaJyCoOXeaRaYkWbhZ4mZrZ5ULwvhpKvbdMB5OPg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0mVvZh5LOXmMRgOMilf7zxrQCrDvvVvZGh51HtofTTiHKzCCMByvC5edVwu4thD3qEX6r43RFfcBSWu-goMx8115dneZNd6e-TfzgSB4a7sTgXj9vrvS8MhefnMDnOkbeC8MtH-cP_0PsIATNgcLaJyCoOXeaRaYkWbhZ4mZrZ5ULwvhpKvbdMB5OPg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I stopped at Baker, California, where I ate breakfast at
the <a href="https://www.madgreekcafe.com/" target="_blank">Mad Greek Café</a>, then drove to Death Valley National Park and used my Senior
Pass in lieu of the $30 entrance fee.<span>
</span>Too bad that the United States can’t have free admission to its National
Parks and Museums, as do more civilized countries such as <a href="https://www.nationalparks.uk/visit-us/" target="_blank">Great Britain</a>. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGNjIwlgwKZhLYgjJqkemvhGWn71VOrOjyr5NwM6nBK-Ce-6FdA0h_V43qFTx0WUo9i0WyXpE4Qd9t6QGgKOSHoPYpOzOCZLi5Fkwct8sj2z1TFdCZWuB3ev48hoRm1qfXsoRa6qsltbUVpSW4jjfFIQZ352-YAMZdYHCZ66qN2iq-pauaQvQm9INJ0g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGNjIwlgwKZhLYgjJqkemvhGWn71VOrOjyr5NwM6nBK-Ce-6FdA0h_V43qFTx0WUo9i0WyXpE4Qd9t6QGgKOSHoPYpOzOCZLi5Fkwct8sj2z1TFdCZWuB3ev48hoRm1qfXsoRa6qsltbUVpSW4jjfFIQZ352-YAMZdYHCZ66qN2iq-pauaQvQm9INJ0g=w426-h640" title="Through this natural gateway the Death Valley Forty-Niners, more than one hundred emigrants from the Middle West, seeking a short cut to the Gold Fields of Central California, entered Death Valley, December 1849. All suffered from thirst and starvation. Two contingents passed southward here, the others proceeded northward seeking to escape from Region. State Registered Landmark No. 442 Marker Placed by California Centennials Commission. Base furnished by Death Valley 49ers Inc. Dedicated December 3, 1949" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Death Valley has a long history, from Native Americans to
the immigrants to the present day.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQnixv-LJwI6zZGaBGGcDdfjsFkfXb8sF7OLVBHVHkHR8XrngcDPTyTjSn4xyOm66AmHvT7RqyZZmlOVzm0o2YZcX4VLzBslMk-cGKMPxzsDTmKNmf-fWwZa4ugc7X9tJEoxMEgZO3_Z8fMLLh-6ePbuiap5QL5pZ9ow5E7u91ZvXqWqvyBYmmIhGfLw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQnixv-LJwI6zZGaBGGcDdfjsFkfXb8sF7OLVBHVHkHR8XrngcDPTyTjSn4xyOm66AmHvT7RqyZZmlOVzm0o2YZcX4VLzBslMk-cGKMPxzsDTmKNmf-fWwZa4ugc7X9tJEoxMEgZO3_Z8fMLLh-6ePbuiap5QL5pZ9ow5E7u91ZvXqWqvyBYmmIhGfLw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nowadays, rather than the 49ers suffering on their way to
the gold fields, our current tourists willingly subject themselves to the rigors
of the desert.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPDU99MEu0fNm5qXpPqTOrunnkMMzKAAjGx0CElMywMubcLO2t8geqH5w2AA498cci6f-vU5r-bQPdsvearIuUU6W1wzJ0A1a3c_qKhX5ZgALraxcBEjPi1-GGE6vWiVScXAtryzbmMLqSWq5IVE87VNi1X5JyRJK2n5uFe0JgX0zQi87DsGB2Ulf1Bw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPDU99MEu0fNm5qXpPqTOrunnkMMzKAAjGx0CElMywMubcLO2t8geqH5w2AA498cci6f-vU5r-bQPdsvearIuUU6W1wzJ0A1a3c_qKhX5ZgALraxcBEjPi1-GGE6vWiVScXAtryzbmMLqSWq5IVE87VNi1X5JyRJK2n5uFe0JgX0zQi87DsGB2Ulf1Bw=w640-h426" title="Habitat in the Desert" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">At the Visitors’ Center, I watched the NPS movie about
the Park, and checked out the Furnace Springs golf course’s water ditch,
looking for a few birds.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQqG89yUCLr--TBo4hXy8586bPRZnFSpBG4U5Y7ypAp8tbHHrLkvOaVNWA1mZgjOv_iqztV8i7u6yBAcjRxcBCCQChnSWyKR4arXiaN0YEMczpKbLa3F2Q1ecqJu2biS_mf2ctdt54JLtz2UIge_-UlMqaTpVb85Kstl2F2nRyJEzvT5Ucnnnjfnu9Yg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="2048" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQqG89yUCLr--TBo4hXy8586bPRZnFSpBG4U5Y7ypAp8tbHHrLkvOaVNWA1mZgjOv_iqztV8i7u6yBAcjRxcBCCQChnSWyKR4arXiaN0YEMczpKbLa3F2Q1ecqJu2biS_mf2ctdt54JLtz2UIge_-UlMqaTpVb85Kstl2F2nRyJEzvT5Ucnnnjfnu9Yg=w640-h374" title="Variegated Meadowhawk - Sympetrum corruptum" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A flight of Dragonflies reflected the abundance of life,
anywhere in the desert where there’s water.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha1EZIwPSPSf9aCcgB6N2KqLiqtHC5YDpZ-qVt3twz3sHFhGpzlBVQ5QPRbY2vPpB87DrEL8q5hglhy0JYaWe3OuCg5eCKfvewn0at4xvP20FZuB2wWm-kaGY8J070lv94tlP6-By2KxabAnfACh5qXF2HT5pkcx1kfR_G4QtykQE1DyIJypY-L6lc0w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha1EZIwPSPSf9aCcgB6N2KqLiqtHC5YDpZ-qVt3twz3sHFhGpzlBVQ5QPRbY2vPpB87DrEL8q5hglhy0JYaWe3OuCg5eCKfvewn0at4xvP20FZuB2wWm-kaGY8J070lv94tlP6-By2KxabAnfACh5qXF2HT5pkcx1kfR_G4QtykQE1DyIJypY-L6lc0w=w640-h426" title="This is the off-season . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;">I left the center, glad that I’d gassed up back along the
Interstate in Baker!</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ-7dNW3UatuHW81LoCKdCqdW7o1zJrH64SBI1xe0m1O3QPm4mAOTSz1oC7-VqSubjImb6CZoRByX61BCm8FiV5RmGP490l1gf0vebUdcjvyVJOiVImaqFY3HQwAYZiMNV93rQETX3XobzIntPkaawOoSEy2vf4FtFCcjlEjOw2imH63LDmgOuW8vgMA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ-7dNW3UatuHW81LoCKdCqdW7o1zJrH64SBI1xe0m1O3QPm4mAOTSz1oC7-VqSubjImb6CZoRByX61BCm8FiV5RmGP490l1gf0vebUdcjvyVJOiVImaqFY3HQwAYZiMNV93rQETX3XobzIntPkaawOoSEy2vf4FtFCcjlEjOw2imH63LDmgOuW8vgMA=w640-h384" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Driving up to the Salt Creek wetland boardwalk and hoping
to view the Desert Pupfish, I never could get a photo of them, but the little
1.5-centimeter critters were common enough in the salty stream.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyC84FXP0BFIBsbX8p6kgUH3yZnqWZ6_F-HHkrX6m2LjQrWXk34MR4TR2uV7Gao6hqdSsZPAY4gFoxO2VgDcP4IQMv7Q50RKoREgYBEBOJgsDU8apDNtL71Y8MAQTZOK_PIEs1sXiT4t6GXrcwMIvAQgvnHzUmyyd899mKXTJ1FVMGoDh-_VhQgK0qCQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyC84FXP0BFIBsbX8p6kgUH3yZnqWZ6_F-HHkrX6m2LjQrWXk34MR4TR2uV7Gao6hqdSsZPAY4gFoxO2VgDcP4IQMv7Q50RKoREgYBEBOJgsDU8apDNtL71Y8MAQTZOK_PIEs1sXiT4t6GXrcwMIvAQgvnHzUmyyd899mKXTJ1FVMGoDh-_VhQgK0qCQ=w640-h426" title="Iodine Bush - Allenrolfea occidentalis" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Iodine Bush <i>Allenrolfea occidentalis </i>and saltgrass
<i>Distichlis spicata</i> were the main components of the ‘riparian’ area.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1DMHdD5PugylwOaTlYQYyB8EaSC56iO7We-BYgrXNWpQliDCE0K4sJngIqyxZH5SR-g-uBx5v5bqaFVdUFeziRhM5eDf-0cRNLjnz0C5GeYpJbgENcrbZCFNZkY1IzKMEOJxCpHKkhE0w8Q96MqQkvSTMO5HzQCzOppVXPW9lbSXR-djZj544hRF5Sg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1DMHdD5PugylwOaTlYQYyB8EaSC56iO7We-BYgrXNWpQliDCE0K4sJngIqyxZH5SR-g-uBx5v5bqaFVdUFeziRhM5eDf-0cRNLjnz0C5GeYpJbgENcrbZCFNZkY1IzKMEOJxCpHKkhE0w8Q96MqQkvSTMO5HzQCzOppVXPW9lbSXR-djZj544hRF5Sg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">These plants are phreatophytes, meaning the
species can tolerate the elevated soil salinity, sending their roots to the
ground water interface.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_tA3pOKexMP4Ibq7NQsCENVdQKis37zvtmPVa7ZxGrQt8G25tbjtrHDc-xrJ-E3pWjMfY7VE8VFhewNel7BYVDHOkti1a3Gnm9YK9N2RS-ClfncRLZvGFgMr7XGYG1Aw4beMLqEVUIC6OM8ln9zjeFuc2Fqt-ES8uXe9jCUYBvJ1EVzO_53edy0kdEA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="2048" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_tA3pOKexMP4Ibq7NQsCENVdQKis37zvtmPVa7ZxGrQt8G25tbjtrHDc-xrJ-E3pWjMfY7VE8VFhewNel7BYVDHOkti1a3Gnm9YK9N2RS-ClfncRLZvGFgMr7XGYG1Aw4beMLqEVUIC6OM8ln9zjeFuc2Fqt-ES8uXe9jCUYBvJ1EVzO_53edy0kdEA=w640-h364" title="American Pipit - Anthus rubescens" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The only birds I saw there were a single croaking raven
on the hillside, and a Pipit along the bank.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi4Jm-rN2RwArV4FdTX-i10hufYezOb8P_lkNOH66jLt9yXuon0xrpzYV6ibgG5jWyBeploNBgaVxyAJlAqoHb8t83OgnKDW1CyR9XZ2lXmd3dOpPC0UQTSSgDmFhN44NU9uvmLiAyjdMj42aCiVl3UWoHtR_5KAj6ON1buoU5qNljIVWR2xNe0Um8Cw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi4Jm-rN2RwArV4FdTX-i10hufYezOb8P_lkNOH66jLt9yXuon0xrpzYV6ibgG5jWyBeploNBgaVxyAJlAqoHb8t83OgnKDW1CyR9XZ2lXmd3dOpPC0UQTSSgDmFhN44NU9uvmLiAyjdMj42aCiVl3UWoHtR_5KAj6ON1buoU5qNljIVWR2xNe0Um8Cw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There were a few other visitors on the boardwalk, but I pretty much had the place to myself. I had never before been in this desert, and quite enjoyed my chance to learn about it and its flora & fauna.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL2jGh7thsYkZ6EDhxUm6vbc3tmRvhDIRCrTx7qIzQEvKEBYMv-HT5JHpnJz3crpSsBFV0TO5Lm5dbt0YkJB46mFx_sXtDsMh7AtBmdKT6ci5igAwVWUrZaFHP_RaudQlQJQ7GdH4o3XiRjUqIt2_3hI9a-iWGipaABCNtfHt7Xm5HbdaM_51C6x3Ujw=s1344" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1344" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL2jGh7thsYkZ6EDhxUm6vbc3tmRvhDIRCrTx7qIzQEvKEBYMv-HT5JHpnJz3crpSsBFV0TO5Lm5dbt0YkJB46mFx_sXtDsMh7AtBmdKT6ci5igAwVWUrZaFHP_RaudQlQJQ7GdH4o3XiRjUqIt2_3hI9a-iWGipaABCNtfHt7Xm5HbdaM_51C6x3Ujw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I stopped for a fry bread taco lunch at the <a href="http://www.timbisha.org/" target="_blank">Timbisha Shoshone’s</a>
café on their reservation.<span> </span>The Tribe
was just recently Federally-recognized in 1984.<span>
</span>And, after 90 years of being ignored or bullied by the Park Service on
the land that they’ve lived on for 1,000 years, they had the land at their
Furnace Creek home <a href="https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/timbisha-shoshone-tribe-recognition-death-valley-furnace-creek" target="_blank">restored to them in 2000</a>.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp00m4YD9eqvhyO2oGKcq9dwhaGBwrjNuHdO30RbsksiyVz_U18CaNnU5-2A_ieDFmHAf06DWLeBIhnKrcchIDTUlMXphPqM1sB7cP7dN8i8DrRGlPzcwSdzWED0U2JYz3rjmFpiXVVOOaQR6nxklrVViqEaQkQBbGvq0FozRWxNJ65b70nj4AdA2U4A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp00m4YD9eqvhyO2oGKcq9dwhaGBwrjNuHdO30RbsksiyVz_U18CaNnU5-2A_ieDFmHAf06DWLeBIhnKrcchIDTUlMXphPqM1sB7cP7dN8i8DrRGlPzcwSdzWED0U2JYz3rjmFpiXVVOOaQR6nxklrVViqEaQkQBbGvq0FozRWxNJ65b70nj4AdA2U4A=w640-h426" title="Tourist at the lowest spot in the United States" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I finished my visit to the Park by driving down to
Badwater, the lowest elevation in the United States at 282 feet below sea
level.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHH28VCg53gYLtoR3DdImvuVXm4BKeSl6GaQNfHtb_bTUkUQ2pQ36nJqD2FydKCzWbHrxT2fzQLozcdYhJJBnXeDj4WNjzD4vMqlDXV81cF8_wgT8ZZHLbHaO3UbhQYh49y50uhjAJCRGGSkgial9moHzZ_LrHxKI__W8nBEtF2oSQ6WSxSnyTbUaaBA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHH28VCg53gYLtoR3DdImvuVXm4BKeSl6GaQNfHtb_bTUkUQ2pQ36nJqD2FydKCzWbHrxT2fzQLozcdYhJJBnXeDj4WNjzD4vMqlDXV81cF8_wgT8ZZHLbHaO3UbhQYh49y50uhjAJCRGGSkgial9moHzZ_LrHxKI__W8nBEtF2oSQ6WSxSnyTbUaaBA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There was quite the crowd at the boardwalk, and I heard
more non-English languages spoken there than ‘Merican.<span> </span>I also had to stop a Park Ranger’s truck and
let them know that along the road, I’d stopped to chew out a couple carloads of
city-slicks who were throwing rocks at a coyote.<span> </span>The poor thing was trying to retrieve its
prey, and the touristas were aghast that the coyote had killed a living
creature!!!<span> </span>They yelled at me and
brandished rocks when I told them that harassing wildlife was illegal in the
park . . .</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy3ZEkR3AYhJAGWH3ST_nYoSlB3cvvKEaHpdP14Ewe6gK6aduGQDrxdcqaIvuxIoxfFi-W6Y4XYYPbcEnGT0Gr5IdS75fCc4CWqcwhYkOQ532hqXweouhNVGKxe8gP9_xGzDDX5JRROmAJ0CCuspvacPMKYc9_YqU9BYDtwjUp4ZKZQYwiEIslTBWlBQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy3ZEkR3AYhJAGWH3ST_nYoSlB3cvvKEaHpdP14Ewe6gK6aduGQDrxdcqaIvuxIoxfFi-W6Y4XYYPbcEnGT0Gr5IdS75fCc4CWqcwhYkOQ532hqXweouhNVGKxe8gP9_xGzDDX5JRROmAJ0CCuspvacPMKYc9_YqU9BYDtwjUp4ZKZQYwiEIslTBWlBQ=w640-h426" title="Badwater Salt Flats" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I got a sour taste of humanity, but thought about it for
a bit and realized that I’d really enjoyed my day here, and there was no reason
to let a moment of others’ actions move me from my own “Center”.<span> </span>I left the park, heading west, and ended up
staying the night at A Nights Inn in Ridgecrest, with the intent to make some
miles toward home tomorrow.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2uMUn_zAWwnnZ6Lflu3itPu9uDwKnNCPG-25TjBxRXHIGkpVxI9uxfOb5pyWihLwc-daz2fs7gwkMnARsOHKYZBN7E_Rc-hWi-aSpnranj2KHgsejA9ov95qOmUsQb0BHBZfLSYk6D5O1oPdtTiMt5LrRyiE5MAtDIrIdV7iAAIpMFFFHYdOaJGF28w=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2uMUn_zAWwnnZ6Lflu3itPu9uDwKnNCPG-25TjBxRXHIGkpVxI9uxfOb5pyWihLwc-daz2fs7gwkMnARsOHKYZBN7E_Rc-hWi-aSpnranj2KHgsejA9ov95qOmUsQb0BHBZfLSYk6D5O1oPdtTiMt5LrRyiE5MAtDIrIdV7iAAIpMFFFHYdOaJGF28w=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nipton eBird Checklist <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61672123" name="_Hlk85454418" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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<span></span>
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Valley Wells Rest Area eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61673206" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Death Valley - Furnace Creek eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61691831" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Death Valley - Salt Creek Trail eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61691836" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Death Valley - Badwater eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61691847" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0syd_rzJbMpmUCZcm1FPN32B3J2FWMNcEpadwxxXS8Wlzu3MjDuOEf26dS9g7yCo3xyk0FdVQIIHY8vkaINi7peQ13xJ7-wxkNaE03jMGtuE-191dpRIq-_rSbndQf6ybZDmceja5lXv2YvlC1DzZuufp3BCqucj4vneWSihwDIZQ1felmGynEbm5Mw=s867" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0syd_rzJbMpmUCZcm1FPN32B3J2FWMNcEpadwxxXS8Wlzu3MjDuOEf26dS9g7yCo3xyk0FdVQIIHY8vkaINi7peQ13xJ7-wxkNaE03jMGtuE-191dpRIq-_rSbndQf6ybZDmceja5lXv2YvlC1DzZuufp3BCqucj4vneWSihwDIZQ1felmGynEbm5Mw=w480-h640" title="A rare "selfie" at Badwater" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
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Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Death Valley National Park, United States36.5053891 -117.07940788.1951552638211567 -152.2356578 64.815622936178841 -81.9231578tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-2075473700985188662021-10-17T13:37:00.008-07:002021-10-17T13:42:54.175-07:00November 22, 2019 - On a Dark Desert Highway<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEismmRWSboIGrv2qE8OoplVwF4RVlpzEvC8xQmyFowrTIHokICDHBL4xv-8aVZcjwo1W2uI4150BjwyPDBW4HiwhNirYrGiOitIV-ZEPMCMZkJIXZ3eZ4RRwdTvUiVyNuxYbK-NMTtwX_eQXDfZt1J34Axu_bTabDvBSbkgO2BGdS6iqUzXeB14-uqoPw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="2048" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEismmRWSboIGrv2qE8OoplVwF4RVlpzEvC8xQmyFowrTIHokICDHBL4xv-8aVZcjwo1W2uI4150BjwyPDBW4HiwhNirYrGiOitIV-ZEPMCMZkJIXZ3eZ4RRwdTvUiVyNuxYbK-NMTtwX_eQXDfZt1J34Axu_bTabDvBSbkgO2BGdS6iqUzXeB14-uqoPw=w640-h324" title="Gambel's Quail on the Golf Course" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was awake at 4:40 again, and tried to catch up on my
way out-of-date Blog, but the internet was intermittent, so any updates will be
put off for yet another day.<span> </span>The
restaurant across the street was scheduled to open at 7, but folks were going
in at 6:30, so I went over to have breakfast.<span>
</span>$10-12 gets you a large portion, with drinkable coffee.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAzjDdy2kZpwdXNra7-ppQh_oJY05N28KjlVH7DEPMB_UtvHxSP1q2b32FJZVUrnPPQoYBP9MwoJpozV8enK8vJ7V9ksp-vTk79pBLI0d1POe4dY-bwsas1fk2QY4ZZeGJEoMvPfYErc159eGU2C6UVxSK3V12PQfPmN_EA_nboeHpqrscJXH_7Wm5PQ=s827" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="827" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAzjDdy2kZpwdXNra7-ppQh_oJY05N28KjlVH7DEPMB_UtvHxSP1q2b32FJZVUrnPPQoYBP9MwoJpozV8enK8vJ7V9ksp-vTk79pBLI0d1POe4dY-bwsas1fk2QY4ZZeGJEoMvPfYErc159eGU2C6UVxSK3V12PQfPmN_EA_nboeHpqrscJXH_7Wm5PQ=w640-h410" title="Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">That done, I packed, checked out, and decided to go over
to Salome’s <a href="http://www.lapazcountyparks.com/centennial-greasewood.html" target="_blank">Centennial Park</a> to see what birds were in the area this morning.<span> </span>I walked around the golf course and a ‘hiking
trail’ through the desert scrub.<span> </span>I had
clear views of the Bell’s Sparrows, which were split off as a separate species
from the more 'interior' Sagebrush Sparrow by the <a href="https://americanornithology.org/" target="_blank">AOS</a> back in 2013, but sadly couldn’t get any
photos.<span> </span>The “Coastal” (or, “Bell’s”) form
of the old <a href="https://www.surfbirds.com/Features/Bells_Sparrow/identification.html" target="_blank">Sage Sparrow</a> has an unstreaked, rather than streaked, back, while
the interior has - amazingly - a streaked back.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw5JNElKd3xPJQyI-YxSHgje9QKNQwc1FwVNM3ctaEuIWlhnbOb7bH7TVOySics7IamzBZg7faT0mr7FB3QddZahNt9UL8a62Ht2I_KSGSFhAoX2u3leRsTBzr7wTfJt6q6bKlc0nDjZmvR6Ax1tdcfGCaNpl68GJM9gJtLZZGL1TMWDhLlsFQT6DqeQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw5JNElKd3xPJQyI-YxSHgje9QKNQwc1FwVNM3ctaEuIWlhnbOb7bH7TVOySics7IamzBZg7faT0mr7FB3QddZahNt9UL8a62Ht2I_KSGSFhAoX2u3leRsTBzr7wTfJt6q6bKlc0nDjZmvR6Ax1tdcfGCaNpl68GJM9gJtLZZGL1TMWDhLlsFQT6DqeQ=w640-h426" title="Mouth of the Bill Williams River" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I drove across to the Bill Williams River NWR, where the
river enters the Lake Havasu reservoir of the heavily-damned Colorado River
behind Parker Dam.<span> </span>There is a cattail
marsh at the confluence, where birders had recently reported Ridgway’s
Rail.<span> </span>This is another bird that had been
determined to be a species separate from the Clapper Rail back in 2014, and one
that I’d never seen nor heard.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK3MSsEeOAtRil1LdjyfBUU6p-LtKf6KKANBVj-_L-qLnDs7ByyJPrw-KlPIR4VRCIrdcc46Ts6RJVKvMDa-1N8vtiIgg2V1669V7uwB06G2qHa-oPNeGN7KzllZMmAe3XO8JOJ2JHhzffPinp64JczNzl5rAFO81qMX7IfUCePB0_Hj8COK9ZMGWygA=s934" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="934" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK3MSsEeOAtRil1LdjyfBUU6p-LtKf6KKANBVj-_L-qLnDs7ByyJPrw-KlPIR4VRCIrdcc46Ts6RJVKvMDa-1N8vtiIgg2V1669V7uwB06G2qHa-oPNeGN7KzllZMmAe3XO8JOJ2JHhzffPinp64JczNzl5rAFO81qMX7IfUCePB0_Hj8COK9ZMGWygA=w640-h380" title="Drake Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>I walked
from the Visitors’ Center along the Delta Trail, hoping that the path would get
close enough to the marsh for me to have a chance at the rails, but the trail
stays up on the hill without approaching the marsh, and I did not hear or see
this skulking species. This was a good place to scope for ducks and grebes, and I got good views of both Clark's and Western Grebes.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBA6qoQUIVeGbrS7mxOcGcazbCOHgyBlwh9cOPhWrIwXNdspzEZnASL_1AYh2TyFWjXVRgpnhygWgAJzYQ6JxIGBniwXU78dJu7KYVf2bKxFT0QblIZGmyhw36Vag5k23fEibhojv-GQStg0xLxo-2fXEATcS3y7BomO5Ojc909owQt5Pbo4X0frRRPA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2048" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBA6qoQUIVeGbrS7mxOcGcazbCOHgyBlwh9cOPhWrIwXNdspzEZnASL_1AYh2TyFWjXVRgpnhygWgAJzYQ6JxIGBniwXU78dJu7KYVf2bKxFT0QblIZGmyhw36Vag5k23fEibhojv-GQStg0xLxo-2fXEATcS3y7BomO5Ojc909owQt5Pbo4X0frRRPA=w640-h372" title="Turtles in the Reservoir marsh, but no tortoises . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I recommend this short hike; especially if you’ve been
driving for a ways. <span> </span>Returning to the
parking area, I stopped to check out the desert tortoise habitat, but the
reptile must have been hiding in his "man-made cave."</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifjshhc7DPuZ1Vf9KAAYcSi5czfWbW1s9bgwXFK9bQv2ARI0gv6yrHjp3GNrQjczrv5f2tGdvnRaWmf0yaJnxENHdmCdc7kDFQLQFn9k3F0fZxw1EO7lLnOuem3r32yTSPqVZ-lRq-I2aGbSDHm1cmpjcRl-tvMuf-_JHTXx23-hud5ob3speH_BmP5A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifjshhc7DPuZ1Vf9KAAYcSi5czfWbW1s9bgwXFK9bQv2ARI0gv6yrHjp3GNrQjczrv5f2tGdvnRaWmf0yaJnxENHdmCdc7kDFQLQFn9k3F0fZxw1EO7lLnOuem3r32yTSPqVZ-lRq-I2aGbSDHm1cmpjcRl-tvMuf-_JHTXx23-hud5ob3speH_BmP5A=w640-h426" title="Desert Pupfish pool" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span><span></span>Next
to the tortoise habitat is a "refugia" pond where desert pupfish (<i>Cyprinodon
macularius</i>) are raised.<span> </span>This species
was listed as endangered in 1986, due to the loss and degradation of its habitat,
so establishing such ‘captive’ populations is very important to their survival.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTg4iDnn2Xxusqz3CeKpXQhuAwO26aoxflYneTLwI1ROaO9omXiMjS2TDYs2Emifl-bBdTLMwGOXdiDfes5FN_NC1mcgFjV9MQyTzx8pYiffUThPI4-JUvL0zeriK_VGq_t4CsoK45fUprRCklCSkGwpCCrSzv1pm0fOSIgYyBog_SXofxquZwnSbdhA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="2048" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTg4iDnn2Xxusqz3CeKpXQhuAwO26aoxflYneTLwI1ROaO9omXiMjS2TDYs2Emifl-bBdTLMwGOXdiDfes5FN_NC1mcgFjV9MQyTzx8pYiffUThPI4-JUvL0zeriK_VGq_t4CsoK45fUprRCklCSkGwpCCrSzv1pm0fOSIgYyBog_SXofxquZwnSbdhA=w640-h412" title="Male Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEc1I1wlaFi262CW6RcUqZC1O8OgPO-Vn_e9qlY22KTf7yw2OB1AbTlPx-MIAoqALkP0BM8h-hu0I9wmYuUUj7Mv6oE8oc8DgWnE1RdmMZsSxzFEvZMDoukVAxvdzSZ9AObEBUA_BAI--ts6TruT-R55EKf1EnR3ise5gVZY3jqGXtEmFEsIcYb-nMow=s1328" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1328" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEc1I1wlaFi262CW6RcUqZC1O8OgPO-Vn_e9qlY22KTf7yw2OB1AbTlPx-MIAoqALkP0BM8h-hu0I9wmYuUUj7Mv6oE8oc8DgWnE1RdmMZsSxzFEvZMDoukVAxvdzSZ9AObEBUA_BAI--ts6TruT-R55EKf1EnR3ise5gVZY3jqGXtEmFEsIcYb-nMow=w640-h366" title="Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus)" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I also drove three miles up the auto tour road, but bird
activity there was light this late in the afternoon, and off-road, there is
little access to the marsh without pushing through mesquite thickets.<span> </span>There were a few quail and wrens around.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaF1KcXFS016W4oNJwDjbUEs_g77oYIQKI_m8mUZhJDKw5FQBmuOL9Lcw0Kv-2bJvviAnI-MgfE8s7UTuSQW41dd_j0Fu1D8h2hTWjtkEF0b0D9A12EtkcekW6Lce5I8LprA9mlW19b4DyVCJXIxqDhQ0bgw-R3p0Xy97CtrhiPXafxFFt8DfsJmw7yQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaF1KcXFS016W4oNJwDjbUEs_g77oYIQKI_m8mUZhJDKw5FQBmuOL9Lcw0Kv-2bJvviAnI-MgfE8s7UTuSQW41dd_j0Fu1D8h2hTWjtkEF0b0D9A12EtkcekW6Lce5I8LprA9mlW19b4DyVCJXIxqDhQ0bgw-R3p0Xy97CtrhiPXafxFFt8DfsJmw7yQ=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I made a few miles in the afternoon, leaving the land of
the saguaro cactus.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfKss4fCrc3oTPY428o4NkD_vfEtlomPbFjTjDsrDGe-2ryPYkncf4PBWqCY32MngblNV6zuLnWUdCrDmtq96LfDbNFc91-jUhIw1By7ozibrEJGeRAZHGgGX0QfgIfUggemhwLV3ig2mxawcXSsNn-aeX0pQxSi6oMNCW4m4qN7T3Fcrqeeo4NXhoog=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfKss4fCrc3oTPY428o4NkD_vfEtlomPbFjTjDsrDGe-2ryPYkncf4PBWqCY32MngblNV6zuLnWUdCrDmtq96LfDbNFc91-jUhIw1By7ozibrEJGeRAZHGgGX0QfgIfUggemhwLV3ig2mxawcXSsNn-aeX0pQxSi6oMNCW4m4qN7T3Fcrqeeo4NXhoog=w640-h426" title="You Can Check Out, But You Can Never Leave . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I ending up entering the little village of Nipton, California at
dusk.<span> </span>On a dark desert highway, in the
shimmering light, I noted that the lodging place was called Hotel
California.<span> </span>My head grew heavy and my
sight grew dim; I had to stop for the night.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLISyt5vjYnktIoyvVvCnpQfXPftdiefQZ2WQediliAb1Iq4AExZJCjdAvedAFMxAYKs6_EF6c6n1qw2N_8BTjV4tsaSuzxRL0R-yxqUcYHtg7NGipifCNiE0Bh97CA9-TbPm-uDUkfQua2cEdHLtqx1txPFlBjmh5_SN2yp_Zikn9iEtYfvPjcHrcPA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLISyt5vjYnktIoyvVvCnpQfXPftdiefQZ2WQediliAb1Iq4AExZJCjdAvedAFMxAYKs6_EF6c6n1qw2N_8BTjV4tsaSuzxRL0R-yxqUcYHtg7NGipifCNiE0Bh97CA9-TbPm-uDUkfQua2cEdHLtqx1txPFlBjmh5_SN2yp_Zikn9iEtYfvPjcHrcPA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was checked in at the Magical Nipton Trading Post by
“Mayor Jim”, and given Room Number 3 - the Clara Bow room.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span><strike><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCGVCXBeQrKM9NGk9EBYDHuzeVmtOIwyB7XlTIzZUnBY0SnlpJ7YhJQ7KaZbvRW1GflNLrUQAjk6JqCXJhVanb1PDulbUFrZ6NLs6cMN70Aa9ntsK-G2OcyubVtTJozVqP-JVoAg94LuQZ5FEC9enW4haKXCpXbtiO6NasY-CyKZBuZG-1xzfDaTmBWQ=s612" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="612" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCGVCXBeQrKM9NGk9EBYDHuzeVmtOIwyB7XlTIzZUnBY0SnlpJ7YhJQ7KaZbvRW1GflNLrUQAjk6JqCXJhVanb1PDulbUFrZ6NLs6cMN70Aa9ntsK-G2OcyubVtTJozVqP-JVoAg94LuQZ5FEC9enW4haKXCpXbtiO6NasY-CyKZBuZG-1xzfDaTmBWQ=w640-h418" title="Clara Bow - The "It Girl"" width="640" /></a></strike></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I knew about <a href="https://www.biography.com/actor/clara-bow" target="_blank">Clara Bow</a> from my interest in silent
films.<span> </span>My own family had a silent movie
star, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279038/" target="_blank">Margarita “Babe” Fisher</a>, who was an aunt on my Dad’s side.<span> </span>After talkies came out, many of the starlets
didn’t make it.<span> </span>Clara was said to have a
high, squeaky voice and the ‘frenetic’ acting style that didn’t fit with the
new format.<span> </span>So, she and her husband Rex
Bell bought a ranch and moved to the desert.<span>
</span>This was the closest railhead for Rex to drive his cattle for shipment. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Clara ostensibly stayed in Room 3
when she came to town for her fan mail.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3ONqqs_LTJK8KkbIrjoVjIQk42k1Vg2epxFGuUCKY4vnKpDP0tfmyPQLdB232tFu73F-qNBeWwsl7s7Z1DVw1L9PxtklNx_93oqQypdxr5305XFuLC6IoKHMSxXqshnWYzmbE0gD995Nyb_4ZmWtfCtszGb2t4jMrDeNP2-qz7rYx9H3MfYnVs56zfA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3ONqqs_LTJK8KkbIrjoVjIQk42k1Vg2epxFGuUCKY4vnKpDP0tfmyPQLdB232tFu73F-qNBeWwsl7s7Z1DVw1L9PxtklNx_93oqQypdxr5305XFuLC6IoKHMSxXqshnWYzmbE0gD995Nyb_4ZmWtfCtszGb2t4jMrDeNP2-qz7rYx9H3MfYnVs56zfA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I ate at the Whistle Stop Café restaurant and bar, which
has burgers and ‘light fare’ along with several local brews.<span> </span>I had their <a href="http://niptonbrewingco.com/" target="_blank">Amber</a>, which wasn’t half bad!<span> </span>The ‘crowd’ at the Café wasn’t too loud; I think
most of the other hotel guests were “mellowed out” by the time I went to bed.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpmCX1-GgRlAUD1copVYYjui4nSFv9m0Paik9udaad-0hEz9XM7YElZ84fxKAAY6CtoRYZKh5_B_YWIMkfTkjlDPnPtyhLNB2o2B_Pp4BP_wnsoioSm6edr9-aY0pZZJNSaiFVFgq2iWz1OxNm-ZUtUbiEqXiGCmayuXbd9S4Ijmee_i5gm3uc84nJuA=s1040" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpmCX1-GgRlAUD1copVYYjui4nSFv9m0Paik9udaad-0hEz9XM7YElZ84fxKAAY6CtoRYZKh5_B_YWIMkfTkjlDPnPtyhLNB2o2B_Pp4BP_wnsoioSm6edr9-aY0pZZJNSaiFVFgq2iWz1OxNm-ZUtUbiEqXiGCmayuXbd9S4Ijmee_i5gm3uc84nJuA=w640-h480" title="Clara Bow's Room No. 3 - about the way it must have been in the 1920s" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The town was bought by American Green, Inc. and its subsidiary CannaWake
in September of 2018 and developed into a cannabis destination spot, but Nipton has once
again been <a href="https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/tiny-town-for-sale-in-california-looks-to-future-after-marijuana-idea-goes-up-in-smoke" target="_blank">put up for sale</a> as of 2021.<span> </span>Sweet
Dreams!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh24yOBNKS1ivvW21yRu3Sz0Ms-e_YqzYCxPxbbOTsuQ7YJTqCa1ndKtKC5aaZ3mC2JsIT_J4r3soCPSNceOMkjGUQEHS3MYCgtKsTx8v5khz2xO00cUaiJhwLhs_TLH8PI8v37x0IA6NRfVw8JCGzfLjK-jMuOOb_gUqYTyVvRRIV8WTTjUy78A9-zmw=s450" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="450" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh24yOBNKS1ivvW21yRu3Sz0Ms-e_YqzYCxPxbbOTsuQ7YJTqCa1ndKtKC5aaZ3mC2JsIT_J4r3soCPSNceOMkjGUQEHS3MYCgtKsTx8v5khz2xO00cUaiJhwLhs_TLH8PI8v37x0IA6NRfVw8JCGzfLjK-jMuOOb_gUqYTyVvRRIV8WTTjUy78A9-zmw=w640-h628" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Salome Centennial Park eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61650837" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bill Williams River NWR HQ eBird Checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61657104" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bill Williams River NWR Planet Ranch Road eBird Checklist
is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61657099" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><i>NB</i>:<span> </span>Interesting
that on this date in 1963, the Right-wingers assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy.<span> </span>Now, they’re in power.</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg369V_zKADAD1xrL1ZMlrUdTFpoAOKjFuCw5pM10PILODUNq28O0K6n8CZfJwmbR3BYIl5x650JnMLqaujwsreB1aPvgCI918Wco0MwRWOw4J0G0cvV13JO1hhEMXhPQtHrinDOD2XvpDaPJowTwXKuy-WXcc3ootBrZCzojVqm3oxPeb0OOOmhhsSYQ=s1924" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="1924" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg369V_zKADAD1xrL1ZMlrUdTFpoAOKjFuCw5pM10PILODUNq28O0K6n8CZfJwmbR3BYIl5x650JnMLqaujwsreB1aPvgCI918Wco0MwRWOw4J0G0cvV13JO1hhEMXhPQtHrinDOD2XvpDaPJowTwXKuy-WXcc3ootBrZCzojVqm3oxPeb0OOOmhhsSYQ=w640-h414" title="A foraging Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) - common in the desert" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>
<br />Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86406, USA34.272715 -114.04582755.9624811638211526 -149.2020775 62.582948836178844 -78.8895775tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-22364175732951584312021-10-15T16:25:00.000-07:002021-10-15T16:25:08.160-07:00November 21, 2019 - Becard Success<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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maker in the El Dorado Inn’s rooms, and their office doesn’t open for coffee until
6:00.<span> </span>So, I used the weak connection to
the Internet to upload yesterday’s photos of the Ruddy Ground Dove to the eBird
checklist.<span> </span>I left the motel at daylight,
vowing to give one last effort to see the Becards.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibwF8wimcxYQRt5k3CROVQzsAKl6alOY5Yu8PnB60miMLjfYbMEoYQ9z5j98LpoFgki_GxJYZCzVVgi_wA4Hm1FE-pDycXFR2J3pVFLNoVNwy0rRg4yoaiS8EN8t9cFaSrpmZBVc0OyUij7JDaG7nvBjFNgIXHB-3SIvtVU6Nt5BM_dHRaX1nBhCosBw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibwF8wimcxYQRt5k3CROVQzsAKl6alOY5Yu8PnB60miMLjfYbMEoYQ9z5j98LpoFgki_GxJYZCzVVgi_wA4Hm1FE-pDycXFR2J3pVFLNoVNwy0rRg4yoaiS8EN8t9cFaSrpmZBVc0OyUij7JDaG7nvBjFNgIXHB-3SIvtVU6Nt5BM_dHRaX1nBhCosBw=w640-h426" title="Santa Cruz River running high" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">It had stopped raining but was threatening another thunder storm as I stopped at <a href="https://www.nps.gov/tuma" target="_blank">Tumacácori National Historical Park</a>, looking for the birds along the riparian zone.<span> </span>With last night’s rains, the Santa Cruz River
was high and muddy.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4VXJMPFMwKCq-Fj1wLhOVuBDd8kToG_1T6Rrd7tqHIOxky6wnxkFG9PkPxcNZg1X8swUtIFt2mRClbnR2DAvmodyUEog1FlAwykKAdWjD74X1pZXC1o3mxIMUB8gfn2I_u9fkeaMjOcjxC6L6Ngdg3zqbB1m2PTfIFR3OcBfMoNY160mzEAYMeKzENA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4VXJMPFMwKCq-Fj1wLhOVuBDd8kToG_1T6Rrd7tqHIOxky6wnxkFG9PkPxcNZg1X8swUtIFt2mRClbnR2DAvmodyUEog1FlAwykKAdWjD74X1pZXC1o3mxIMUB8gfn2I_u9fkeaMjOcjxC6L6Ngdg3zqbB1m2PTfIFR3OcBfMoNY160mzEAYMeKzENA=w640-h426" title="Last season's Rose-throated Becard nest" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A couple birds of the species has recently been seen
around last season’s nest, but I had no luck here.<span> </span>The Becard builds a hanging “football” shaped
nest which is fairly easy to see.<span> </span>The
birds are more cryptic.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPsryEr3z8yjnuTPvJpFTrWgxr9ZdyCZLl6oQEt0o2atWLiO-T_eqfeZ7ve0uNIPwFn4jY1dUFpZGEhCj0r-Dyhjt3t8zD2leiVE4Jr5OwASoBWGaZy9azk33GOR6M-JmaanTsBsMHaE5YEIUXZyXuniLnfjAZbufN1gCt1evaNg3wBXMt0x5sFm70Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPsryEr3z8yjnuTPvJpFTrWgxr9ZdyCZLl6oQEt0o2atWLiO-T_eqfeZ7ve0uNIPwFn4jY1dUFpZGEhCj0r-Dyhjt3t8zD2leiVE4Jr5OwASoBWGaZy9azk33GOR6M-JmaanTsBsMHaE5YEIUXZyXuniLnfjAZbufN1gCt1evaNg3wBXMt0x5sFm70Q=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I left the Monument and went south to the town of Tubac, and
parked along Bridge Street at the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historical Park
trailhead.<span> I had read on eBird that the nest area was marked. I didn't realize that it would be marked with cans and bottles!</span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU5lRomoaTeyQhTwDaKWLt5sYvchyjiMeQ2TJQlCdwwxSDV2v9kI0gNMLmm7YYoRwfVVAlrj6y2wUohw0txffqZO6DbeTs8MeJvcjv2PzMyqMBeSRe58Z4FnUmbJyuOX0oco48nsPv8PvI3_B3e0nhaqJ-Q0INGWPPK0_IZDKHrTiyx4JEPKZciAoJ3Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1495" data-original-width="2048" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU5lRomoaTeyQhTwDaKWLt5sYvchyjiMeQ2TJQlCdwwxSDV2v9kI0gNMLmm7YYoRwfVVAlrj6y2wUohw0txffqZO6DbeTs8MeJvcjv2PzMyqMBeSRe58Z4FnUmbJyuOX0oco48nsPv8PvI3_B3e0nhaqJ-Q0INGWPPK0_IZDKHrTiyx4JEPKZciAoJ3Q=w640-h468" title="Looks kind of like the Becard nest at Tumacácori" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I walked down the east side
of the river 0.4 miles from the bridge to the area where the Becards have
nested in the past.<span> </span>There, I saw another
nest hanging from a branch in the canopy.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCMDKiBes3xPcSt__YdwS1ZV1pjh0Y8xDp21Cd_mxQjqMhO7iBcOEgVRO9oN62nPzwXmpZH4X-xqYf2cEGyfXhVlVxB1FOSdnbbwL7Nfg5ONz-IyUT95ApbWQSMz1HEgfAU-eLwFEsj4OqnErUsSz4Pq3i7uFqL3Vq1JG0E9Hx7hJ3ifFTuRAFxLr_FA=s890" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="890" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCMDKiBes3xPcSt__YdwS1ZV1pjh0Y8xDp21Cd_mxQjqMhO7iBcOEgVRO9oN62nPzwXmpZH4X-xqYf2cEGyfXhVlVxB1FOSdnbbwL7Nfg5ONz-IyUT95ApbWQSMz1HEgfAU-eLwFEsj4OqnErUsSz4Pq3i7uFqL3Vq1JG0E9Hx7hJ3ifFTuRAFxLr_FA=w640-h412" title="That's not a Becard! That's a Ladder-backed Woodpecker . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">After about a half-hour of wandering around, I heard the
chittering call of the Becards, and got decent views of a male <b><span style="color: red;">Rose-throated Becard</span></b>!</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqBPB1HpzgMN3Axb_V2KmLApcGKL0OTxE8VRg1NiU2HBGtS5j-fIWUT9l6kNWCzHfsS0ngRD9XyONAv-FD00D5mIZVeKwf0ugf-nv7aWD6uqkWxEYaak5WBkByZ5E-WWNA6OjiiYzmQSG4K4BwbSQK76elqhHEKxPOZVICN3lTanDx8mLL8NiJHlEdmg=s982" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="982" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqBPB1HpzgMN3Axb_V2KmLApcGKL0OTxE8VRg1NiU2HBGtS5j-fIWUT9l6kNWCzHfsS0ngRD9XyONAv-FD00D5mIZVeKwf0ugf-nv7aWD6uqkWxEYaak5WBkByZ5E-WWNA6OjiiYzmQSG4K4BwbSQK76elqhHEKxPOZVICN3lTanDx8mLL8NiJHlEdmg=w640-h396" title="Heavily-cropped shot of the Rose-throated Becard - Pachyramphus aglaiae - but you can see the rose throat!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">A second bird flew in, giving me a brief view of the
female.<span> </span>Yay!!</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ9-XadZtAZvGBIDTVCLuBbXuB7hPef7pCv5QK7O1DDpyQDJWPK08KzprY88vKmCLeGk1G6BGE7Auu_zlfWvgQO0hET99QkxHLtdRMguz6wdpBxuIaSgO2--KCHpHv3WEzo4ovVm5SXBcZ7Y1mKkmm4QjdffQvTdcNwCC-14pwrmwj7TE3_VOfAQrFIQ=s868" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="868" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ9-XadZtAZvGBIDTVCLuBbXuB7hPef7pCv5QK7O1DDpyQDJWPK08KzprY88vKmCLeGk1G6BGE7Auu_zlfWvgQO0hET99QkxHLtdRMguz6wdpBxuIaSgO2--KCHpHv3WEzo4ovVm5SXBcZ7Y1mKkmm4QjdffQvTdcNwCC-14pwrmwj7TE3_VOfAQrFIQ=w640-h452" title="Rose-throated Becard (Pachyramphus aglaiae)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>This was my 603rd species for my
“Peregrination” year, and my <b><span style="color: red;">ABA “Life” Bird No. 664</span></b>!!</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMPZtgj1_8rTYLgo2fdQsDDF6cfmKPnT9Mb4-iu61nR7ANLijpnKqS-NBPsQmez01rLW7qw21FtDg9lAgw6q3JoOn9HhAcNNFtMHaJENpE5WhjPpiP_BDbsqMF-aAhRTiKAna2qELNyBKMP6bNG8uV1QqxbOPHFKUS9Y4fBoqtwdQUEtqAf9f9Tk40Wg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMPZtgj1_8rTYLgo2fdQsDDF6cfmKPnT9Mb4-iu61nR7ANLijpnKqS-NBPsQmez01rLW7qw21FtDg9lAgw6q3JoOn9HhAcNNFtMHaJENpE5WhjPpiP_BDbsqMF-aAhRTiKAna2qELNyBKMP6bNG8uV1QqxbOPHFKUS9Y4fBoqtwdQUEtqAf9f9Tk40Wg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I spent a while after the birds flew off in exploring up
and down the river bank.<span> </span>I was intrigued
with the knobs at the bases of the leaves that had fallen from the towering Frémont
cottonwoods (<i>Populus fremontii</i>).<span>
</span>These are the galls caused by the cottonwood gall aphid (<i>Pemphigus
populitranversus</i>).<span> </span>Growing up in the
Willamette Valley, I’d find falls on oaks that contain only a single egg/larvae
of a wasp or fly. <span> </span>These galls on
cottonwood leaf-stems (petiole) contain a big group of <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5351722.pdf" target="_blank">petiolegall aphids</a>, and
may be of more than one generation.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfqn-dKOd8uXMI5AhQPDp24-rEYxRu6Bm5sjgcQqPb2_--GGXYd2dzhNZUWHGlDGmktJEyPdTgbWhyAxvjI1XrXShfSel9zTiLTFHquszUFu6Brq2dn54q3XALboBxu6t-rTA2tJnYDsZp8-giLmLDKIWZnVVMZVoI5dUUjQE7wKcOg4fZqizxe6ZU3w=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfqn-dKOd8uXMI5AhQPDp24-rEYxRu6Bm5sjgcQqPb2_--GGXYd2dzhNZUWHGlDGmktJEyPdTgbWhyAxvjI1XrXShfSel9zTiLTFHquszUFu6Brq2dn54q3XALboBxu6t-rTA2tJnYDsZp8-giLmLDKIWZnVVMZVoI5dUUjQE7wKcOg4fZqizxe6ZU3w=w640-h480" title="Cottonwood leaf petiole gall" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Aphids seldom have straight-forward life cycles. <span> </span>These over winter as eggs on Cottonwood twigs. <span> </span>The eggs hatch in the spring and the nymphs
feed on developing leaf petioles through their tubular, sucking mouth parts.<span> </span>This feeding induces the host plant to produce
a swollen growth, called a gall.<span> </span>Then
the insect moves inside to continue feeding until it becomes a winged adult and
exits through the slot in the gall’s side. <span> </span>They complete their life cycle on the roots of
cabbage, turnips, or another member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) - Another
common name is Cabbage Root Aphid. <span> </span>The
aphids complete their life cycle by flying back to Cottonwoods and depositing
eggs on the twigs or bark.<span> </span>Cool.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFcALUYtdVJZqUVI6opsv5InOG5VZYfY3JXONSc-lUqfGoT5-4BaAN5TejIlB5BCEZpAe-pUDOf7SW23d5HFep0pu_GMRTODPJadFL9T2XtDvdvFKpwtEodaaiWLM6km1nrDuWfGYEmTyOKHxduju3FOt2rRHDFZu531efDtc1pFm-V-5E4LMwmvhasw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1213" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFcALUYtdVJZqUVI6opsv5InOG5VZYfY3JXONSc-lUqfGoT5-4BaAN5TejIlB5BCEZpAe-pUDOf7SW23d5HFep0pu_GMRTODPJadFL9T2XtDvdvFKpwtEodaaiWLM6km1nrDuWfGYEmTyOKHxduju3FOt2rRHDFZu531efDtc1pFm-V-5E4LMwmvhasw=w380-h640" title="Say's Phoebe violating the 'Handicapped" statutes . . ." width="380" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Elated with knocking a “Nemesis” bird off my list, I headed
back to the parking lot, where a Say’s Phoebe hunted from the parking lot.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQobw2HJl8s0WZSAPB7Pp9-4cGguaTng_JPk1cRIwWXjBplGVTmYrQo3rpFzLliVbBemSeloPBlNVXDO37QuDWMAKlHRTqT2LVTCFyOGO9Vxhi2L2Fjg4Z3wbuSfff9ZHWvIg5GEK4qSIww8cfWTHzqDlbghiP_82gagFaIhrESzcfGFy9UdOPOmvfig=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="2048" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQobw2HJl8s0WZSAPB7Pp9-4cGguaTng_JPk1cRIwWXjBplGVTmYrQo3rpFzLliVbBemSeloPBlNVXDO37QuDWMAKlHRTqT2LVTCFyOGO9Vxhi2L2Fjg4Z3wbuSfff9ZHWvIg5GEK4qSIww8cfWTHzqDlbghiP_82gagFaIhrESzcfGFy9UdOPOmvfig=w640-h572" title="“western horse lubber” grasshopper (Taeniopoda eques)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Also in the parking lot was this cool “western horse
lubber” grasshopper (<i>Taeniopoda eques</i>).<span>
</span>The vernacular “lubber” refers to the flightless terrestrial status of
the grasshopper subfamily Romaleinae.<span> </span>I
don’t know what the reference to “horse” is . . .<span> </span>The grasshopper secretes a noxious, frothy
substance from the thorax, meant to deter would-be predators from trying to eat
it. <span> </span>The grasshopper also drops to the
ground and 'hisses' when it is disturbed!<span>
</span>Kind of surprising!</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOWjFScNrt6tgMd481sroAXjHBv_0kPbFaF8AbTjWRCGz1lg-DZ43Gx9GKuTaTmStT0YuLC75fFUCquznBYanOMlhuBaWX-OD7efN4kIyv1gIzfieHUTaxiRlVN3GcWuPR2i4xV4fEoD4rhaYZp7lbo98gjM9bgpjIECYBT9zMNqXsAc_klGmQFl21eg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="2048" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOWjFScNrt6tgMd481sroAXjHBv_0kPbFaF8AbTjWRCGz1lg-DZ43Gx9GKuTaTmStT0YuLC75fFUCquznBYanOMlhuBaWX-OD7efN4kIyv1gIzfieHUTaxiRlVN3GcWuPR2i4xV4fEoD4rhaYZp7lbo98gjM9bgpjIECYBT9zMNqXsAc_klGmQFl21eg=w640-h388" title="Isn't it about time that *all* of the U.S. went metric?" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I got back onto the freeway, and headed north and
west.<span> </span>Interstate 19, which is entirely
in Arizona, is an oddity among U.S. interstate highways. <span> </span>This freeway, which runs from Tucson to
Nogales, is the country's only continuous highway that lists distances in
kilometers, rather than in miles.<span> </span>It is
a legacy from the Carter Administration’s efforts to move America into the 20<sup>th</sup>
Century, and a sad reminder that Americans are still using a measurement system
different to the rest of the civilized world.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV9UHMbB2ew9Ad4MOtWe904H4bP3Hoqy3xsidfoHz5MjtToeIFAg8D_KSZ5iErlkfeEpryDMPaV-wgDU-eyHnVHEL7ZY6gD30zwj1lI1kuM4mDpNGHewBYw-4hrwIgK5v7e7iJBm_b9HjSlItiykCrAjOvKP4U57tPc9eenDrT7ss7gKhvAeCTICMJSw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV9UHMbB2ew9Ad4MOtWe904H4bP3Hoqy3xsidfoHz5MjtToeIFAg8D_KSZ5iErlkfeEpryDMPaV-wgDU-eyHnVHEL7ZY6gD30zwj1lI1kuM4mDpNGHewBYw-4hrwIgK5v7e7iJBm_b9HjSlItiykCrAjOvKP4U57tPc9eenDrT7ss7gKhvAeCTICMJSw=w640-h426" title="Adiós Customs and Border Patrol checkpoints!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Continuing north, besides leaving behind the only
‘official’ use of the metric system, I left behind the Customs and Border
Patrol inspection stations.<span> </span>I always
feel as though I’m a foreigner in my own nation when I have to stop and
identify myself at these damned things.<span>
</span>Thank God, I’m a male Anglo, rather than someone with Brown Skin, trying
to travel around in my own Country.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpZ1_HtNPsETQyWj3HwnIv1BY00GB1MsjsFC3YyZAVCec60Al6KdXp1d99GNuE7x3GOC5nsl6lpiMr_pSHRToHVokYLw8JAZqAVkBYvkl6cpAkm6Bg-da35w9tgbuoj8MfpD3iw8ucuyI8Y6ISNuw7EBmbSEVbcUjWpw3lgfpinB_FhO_gfknMUJwj2g=s647" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="647" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpZ1_HtNPsETQyWj3HwnIv1BY00GB1MsjsFC3YyZAVCec60Al6KdXp1d99GNuE7x3GOC5nsl6lpiMr_pSHRToHVokYLw8JAZqAVkBYvkl6cpAkm6Bg-da35w9tgbuoj8MfpD3iw8ucuyI8Y6ISNuw7EBmbSEVbcUjWpw3lgfpinB_FhO_gfknMUJwj2g=w640-h574" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I drove back to Sierra Vista to check with the manager of
the Magnuson Hotel for my brand-new (and somewhat spendy) Coleman cooler.<span> </span>I’d called earlier, but the desk clerk said
I’d have to check back (!) so I figured I’d just stop in to pick it up.<span> </span>No such luck.<span>
</span>The manager appropriately (?) backed up his employees.<span> </span>On the other hand, I know that I’d left the
thing in the room yesterday morning, so am <i>pretty sure</i> that someone on the cleaning
staff just got themselves a new cooler, a 6-pack of good beer, and a quarter
pound of cheese.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkIGD6HasD28tp8DYJDXPNH_kXMB6_BqZlwK7Wsokk7j1fj9elZX-RbMSAQSI-Ci4XDEGXxULr0AZF1LthgqO5YlVwt1Xg2V0GUd8kyGL-VW5pXq24BkvTzc7Ha28vbSVqd0lUYlbEbBqn_qHEuO2DZGbOD5d6gtxX1L8Oq0Z7aEdjmvL2a8NEf6QpOA=s1010" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1010" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkIGD6HasD28tp8DYJDXPNH_kXMB6_BqZlwK7Wsokk7j1fj9elZX-RbMSAQSI-Ci4XDEGXxULr0AZF1LthgqO5YlVwt1Xg2V0GUd8kyGL-VW5pXq24BkvTzc7Ha28vbSVqd0lUYlbEbBqn_qHEuO2DZGbOD5d6gtxX1L8Oq0Z7aEdjmvL2a8NEf6QpOA=w640-h404" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">My homeward journey took me as far as Salome this
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was comfortable and clean enough; the shower never did heat up enough to use it,
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiKZliVZ-FHI929eWm5b1uLgxO65OXAY0pvBNJqG5kz_BTkItAhfN3oZyRN0_o1c7cpuhvSlH8ed8HHFJe3o6PeMFVfugMzy7Yvy0dNTsOnl145X3qNw4cpDsEIiGYq7Tb2_SDb1zPQQdWa69kRSZtOt1DS3SOm9terlnxYvAz1NMVx9tCJlM1pMmMug=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiKZliVZ-FHI929eWm5b1uLgxO65OXAY0pvBNJqG5kz_BTkItAhfN3oZyRN0_o1c7cpuhvSlH8ed8HHFJe3o6PeMFVfugMzy7Yvy0dNTsOnl145X3qNw4cpDsEIiGYq7Tb2_SDb1zPQQdWa69kRSZtOt1DS3SOm9terlnxYvAz1NMVx9tCJlM1pMmMug=w640-h426" title="Rainbows at dawn always seem to portend a great day!" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I was awake at 4:30, so made myself a cup of coffee and -
because the Magnuson Hotel had no breakfast - some instant oatmeal before
running out to the San Pedro House, where the Friends of San Pedro maintain
feeders, and docents from the <a href="http://sanpedroriver.org/wpfspr/" target="_blank">San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area</a>
conduct weekly birding walks.<span> </span>Pete
Siminski was there when I arrived, beginning the bird count, and hoping for a
view of the Ruddy Ground Dove that has been seen recently.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8gKZ04bjQolYiMxBaHdeyxRZHQS5kH-00_b9FdF552RMOjBNt8_vfYaXgWEvBskRzVe6M34Ogb8ls8eSoitbQjt5GttgisCO9Suobs7L-4coKQXH1u9sMBC8Kf3m0n_7GV1X3dbEdTA4RRVRS9xRfcrWGxSOplrZ0hF5WDmccFur3rfx3ocHEOgnuhw=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8gKZ04bjQolYiMxBaHdeyxRZHQS5kH-00_b9FdF552RMOjBNt8_vfYaXgWEvBskRzVe6M34Ogb8ls8eSoitbQjt5GttgisCO9Suobs7L-4coKQXH1u9sMBC8Kf3m0n_7GV1X3dbEdTA4RRVRS9xRfcrWGxSOplrZ0hF5WDmccFur3rfx3ocHEOgnuhw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The House was originally a ranch house, and now houses
the Friends’ visitors’ center, a gift shop and offices.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTvZj8rztIJvFcpyykIYo4jOkh0DPLYWbldJVUJND0H_oSAs7eRBXrt0qLvQnfdUjL6viL7jte3PEyXSefStzXyQIbfb98MIXfngHG-ki5anWqDb2dcH0nEL1HrpDSXnwnkkVI5WeGxQs1rZtF1fL5oMss9K7qYNU5W1LIXZiqZdAt59hiS54IVqwgFQ=s765" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="632" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTvZj8rztIJvFcpyykIYo4jOkh0DPLYWbldJVUJND0H_oSAs7eRBXrt0qLvQnfdUjL6viL7jte3PEyXSefStzXyQIbfb98MIXfngHG-ki5anWqDb2dcH0nEL1HrpDSXnwnkkVI5WeGxQs1rZtF1fL5oMss9K7qYNU5W1LIXZiqZdAt59hiS54IVqwgFQ=w528-h640" width="528" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The San Pedro riparian area is administered by the US
Bureau of Land Management, contains about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro
River, was designated by Congress as a <a href="https://www.blm.gov/national-conservation-lands/arizona/san-pedro" target="_blank">National Conservation Area</a> (NCA) on
November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and
enhance 57,000 acres of the desert riparian ecosystem along 40 miles of the San
Pedro River.<span> </span>This is a bare remnant of
what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the
Southwest.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBt09zCtKtJmJqeXqkvCu4FXIuWyW7XwDGhA18LadZjQDGfFPonfQKKw8ySoBs64fcyS1xuo_wF-h7TKsrcupG4aBTccwwP_VTk7jYeuTaFJhlpYJoNokuHp4_5mOlUnxnsXOKBbooA3FWC7d-nmjzqRsCTx5C25-N-1xe5K3_e0EmHaLM1BSyUoHLsA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBt09zCtKtJmJqeXqkvCu4FXIuWyW7XwDGhA18LadZjQDGfFPonfQKKw8ySoBs64fcyS1xuo_wF-h7TKsrcupG4aBTccwwP_VTk7jYeuTaFJhlpYJoNokuHp4_5mOlUnxnsXOKBbooA3FWC7d-nmjzqRsCTx5C25-N-1xe5K3_e0EmHaLM1BSyUoHLsA=w640-h426" title="Big Sacaton (Sporobolus wrightii)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There was a native plant garden at the House.<span> </span>I had to learn this species in my OSU Range
Ecology class back in the 70s:<span> </span>Big
Sacaton (<i>Sporobolus wrightii</i>) is a warm-season perennial bunchgrass,
generally found on floodplains and alluvial soils.<span> </span>It can grow to 6 feet tall, and used to form
extensive grasslands in the Southwest prior to the introduction of livestock
grazing.<span> </span>As an aside, warm-season
grasses are known as C4 Plants. <span> </span>This is
because they use the four-carbon compound called Phosphoenolpyruvate, or “PEP”,
carboxylase in photosynthesis. <span> </span>In
grasses PEP carboxylase is a photosynthetic enzyme that can “attract” CO2 more
efficiently than cool-season “C3” plants, and allows the stomata of the plant
to be closed more often.<span> </span>Having the
stomates closed more often makes the plant more drought resistant which allows
it to grow in the southern regions where there are higher temperatures.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRRW3xqIYZOGeaORvVYv2-xq-jLVCMieltmEivjoWRfMaasRGB149Ko8z_MJV2D3h6HRwfrdysdD_7WT2RqpxA_E8RoIyMTDu54l3r10cct_RE4R-rUAazApEwHLF1SugurUNLAtz8Dihejl5xE2no2yUe__FQ0E4p7xw70i9nsiaSUTI25-q2-8xz6A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRRW3xqIYZOGeaORvVYv2-xq-jLVCMieltmEivjoWRfMaasRGB149Ko8z_MJV2D3h6HRwfrdysdD_7WT2RqpxA_E8RoIyMTDu54l3r10cct_RE4R-rUAazApEwHLF1SugurUNLAtz8Dihejl5xE2no2yUe__FQ0E4p7xw70i9nsiaSUTI25-q2-8xz6A=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We searched around the feeders, looking for the dove, but
this morning’s wind kept many of the sparrows and other birds holding tight to
cover.<span> </span>So, we walked the birding route which
loops south past a couple of ponds that remain from historical gravel mining,
parallels the San Pedro River, and returns to the House.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjE_H2MLpCKh6LjduKcBi25UyKqzz7G62UJ30cdvun87NZ7DRMkWPOAiCSVJFMUdeXkRqHJQuW0r53y4L3dbou0RwLw2jcwltEegfw2ypsDSYpj2pmnLpTCNlc1f2NC1vfFrIPsb8zoP6V5OsnuAU4n92jd9Nom6GTch-U5WDglx6ECRhfMvpi2FgBhZw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjE_H2MLpCKh6LjduKcBi25UyKqzz7G62UJ30cdvun87NZ7DRMkWPOAiCSVJFMUdeXkRqHJQuW0r53y4L3dbou0RwLw2jcwltEegfw2ypsDSYpj2pmnLpTCNlc1f2NC1vfFrIPsb8zoP6V5OsnuAU4n92jd9Nom6GTch-U5WDglx6ECRhfMvpi2FgBhZw=w426-h640" title="Scarred by flooding" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The San Pedro River is the last remaining undammed river
in the southwest United States, and supports some wonderful biological
diversity in this desert land.<span> </span>The river
currently is running slightly high due to the recent monsoon rains, but it is
obvious from the scarring on the riparian trees that when the floods come, they
can be swift and violent.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0cBJMkc1Q-aD_vLWQHnQnihi6HxxnlR1N0JWOUzvgAqdhJZYgmsIQmoTJ3dq4ehluDKc_VdZpspMOOvJpjfMYc-oqYIRoqPzsfuh5xJgVO0tnQzFMmb3wAyjgSF85hxZC5JH8X0h42si3GtJcj7q2oKt4GyBT2J4Kaja0s_D2iJpGCGU-mO6Ie4NeNw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0cBJMkc1Q-aD_vLWQHnQnihi6HxxnlR1N0JWOUzvgAqdhJZYgmsIQmoTJ3dq4ehluDKc_VdZpspMOOvJpjfMYc-oqYIRoqPzsfuh5xJgVO0tnQzFMmb3wAyjgSF85hxZC5JH8X0h42si3GtJcj7q2oKt4GyBT2J4Kaja0s_D2iJpGCGU-mO6Ie4NeNw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">As can the winds.<span>
</span>There had been a few storms with enough gusts to have taken down some of
the trees altogether.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir6hm0IAXiLukaKNEMhR_C6zmevmu7t63qprPiOC5qPLkpijVaPZC69ke-JmvqLiYX1q7eYAjSjry1Vp7j2TCps2TWAM4Inpk71kHctpgBvK8hYVFBAmEtY3LuZTuMVwhYqJ5tnLkjSPCTRPSE-6WcnxEPNT7FBV1NjZSYBa5Xr8xe6TXTxWSDt0eJ9A=s1466" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1466" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir6hm0IAXiLukaKNEMhR_C6zmevmu7t63qprPiOC5qPLkpijVaPZC69ke-JmvqLiYX1q7eYAjSjry1Vp7j2TCps2TWAM4Inpk71kHctpgBvK8hYVFBAmEtY3LuZTuMVwhYqJ5tnLkjSPCTRPSE-6WcnxEPNT7FBV1NjZSYBa5Xr8xe6TXTxWSDt0eJ9A=w640-h394" title="Black Phoebe - these are now regular in western Washington" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1suh6Z8OtxJc4LWBdaHketQz7z9-o9vn9G93xMPGnOkE9GaAdD1zwZeGZXkGDVc5CFFdSMFKt6A4ECIKc5QqDTUDU79C9gt76Jk41UiZxLeVH8EB4BWjgjgj5A9AUBLTOsqnCjecux7DdaG8uTzYy46ZP8Sn7z7W8S65GHoSs0SSk6PVP45NmFISgFw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1439" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1suh6Z8OtxJc4LWBdaHketQz7z9-o9vn9G93xMPGnOkE9GaAdD1zwZeGZXkGDVc5CFFdSMFKt6A4ECIKc5QqDTUDU79C9gt76Jk41UiZxLeVH8EB4BWjgjgj5A9AUBLTOsqnCjecux7DdaG8uTzYy46ZP8Sn7z7W8S65GHoSs0SSk6PVP45NmFISgFw=w640-h450" title="Anna's Hummingbird - these are now common in western Washington & Oregon" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">We saw a number of the ‘common’ local birds, many of
which are not seen commonly anywhere near my home in western Washington State.<span> </span>Some are.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUg20fVDB7eUaWlZpPigX5x95ez5h9xMbbg8RegghmtQ-xjqhPMUo3sAguZrLzlNWT7zXPnvuzvci0J0kbnwKNxAnO7-RUgikFWimf2bys6m8LlipF7rcxMq4MUftI8VNpTyOunEmvxFq8DUN-R0gsS1EqVBJBcQtxnkEX8hQ4XWbrrd8MAC0JG5bJeg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUg20fVDB7eUaWlZpPigX5x95ez5h9xMbbg8RegghmtQ-xjqhPMUo3sAguZrLzlNWT7zXPnvuzvci0J0kbnwKNxAnO7-RUgikFWimf2bys6m8LlipF7rcxMq4MUftI8VNpTyOunEmvxFq8DUN-R0gsS1EqVBJBcQtxnkEX8hQ4XWbrrd8MAC0JG5bJeg=w640-h366" title="Aphonopelma sp. tarantula" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The wet monsoons have contributed to conditions favorable
for the local tarantulas, which go into breeding mode with the fall rains.<span> </span>This one might be the <i>Aphonopelma vorhiesi</i>,
as it is much darker than others (c.f. the Arizona “blonde” tarantula <i>A.
chalcodes</i>) I’ve seen in the Southwest.<span>
</span>Hard to say.<span> </span>The <i>Aphonopelma</i>
of North American are poorly known. <span> </span>Although
many species have been described, few specimens can be properly identified
either by using available keys or by wading through species descriptions. <span> </span>Most of the identifiable specimens belong to
species found in Mexico or Central America that are easily recognized by unique
color patterns. <span> </span>Correct identification
of specimens collected within the United States is often suspect since
determinations must be based on the process of elimination using collection
dates and locality data in combination with coloration, coxal setation, and
metatarsal scopulation.<span> </span>Can’t get that
from a photo . . .</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfIqAk9QOaV-IweVIKIxXkr5IxKcA0QdpRwUwYUc-1bm6mvclUsFbAnj3t7qxVqGLWFlB7apHNYyEdAUXqG29mut8_yM4w7RI-M_VjYBECPdojPObEHnH47ctYkQuPzFYimap6-6fGjAzd0rPCRr_mspivHQ7HXHVrp7mO4YJ_DZ6fpPdAsLVDcJjOmQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfIqAk9QOaV-IweVIKIxXkr5IxKcA0QdpRwUwYUc-1bm6mvclUsFbAnj3t7qxVqGLWFlB7apHNYyEdAUXqG29mut8_yM4w7RI-M_VjYBECPdojPObEHnH47ctYkQuPzFYimap6-6fGjAzd0rPCRr_mspivHQ7HXHVrp7mO4YJ_DZ6fpPdAsLVDcJjOmQ=w640-h426" title="Juno Buck Moth male - Hemileuca juno" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Another arthropod out in fair numbers today was the Juno
Buck Moth <i>Hemileuca juno</i>.<span> </span>In the
fall, adults emerge from their cocoons in the morning and mating occurs in the
afternoon. <span> </span>Females lay eggs from late
afternoon until sunset; the eggs overwinter and hatch in April or May. <span> </span>Young caterpillars feed in groups on mesquite buds
and flowers in the mornings, usually resting among branches during the
afternoons. <span> </span>Development is rapid, and
caterpillars spin cocoons in leaf litter in May or June. <span> </span>Most of these will emerge as adults the next fall,
but some may delay emergence for up to 4 years.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWtW_03C7YciYIynl1SJGxWv08t904QwDNHZ2dLLKaWSpktltPIz-xKdDRK8YvuZykBE7dI3SL95Xn4GG6UpwgDOj2nlzgyJ6UiVZL0-J33_rfd34aHrPBRPtEdnhlvxUdbTIvA2IyBYk6tQ2wly3gowgv4EtxtJtCWrW3OJ7FAxkZFhYQOeogkiRE5Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWtW_03C7YciYIynl1SJGxWv08t904QwDNHZ2dLLKaWSpktltPIz-xKdDRK8YvuZykBE7dI3SL95Xn4GG6UpwgDOj2nlzgyJ6UiVZL0-J33_rfd34aHrPBRPtEdnhlvxUdbTIvA2IyBYk6tQ2wly3gowgv4EtxtJtCWrW3OJ7FAxkZFhYQOeogkiRE5Q=w640-h434" title="The Inca Dove - Columbina inca" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The group of birders returned to the San Pedro House to
find, roosting among a few Inca Doves, a female <b><span style="color: red;">Ruddy Ground Dove</span></b>, my <b><span style="color: red;">Life Bird
No. 663</span></b> in the ABA area.<span> </span>There has been
a male of the species accompanying her, but he, the brighter ruddy-colored of
the two, wasn’t seen by us today.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCcmq4ffX_G0I1O_I2jBOz7y0S28uQotJL4ZwkUwi6XerIzaXkbVuaHwW1lSvZkTBDAaoC6HvlQHzhzWQTXOGg6dRs8b9RUDWSs7D_WgozDZM_xnV7an5qwBOJXmgyT1JFPqtAZlu9N8lGmq6DP7kEnGlvx0cs1QrGhuVcOVyjIzz7MWDjjdoQnqCPlw=s1730" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1730" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCcmq4ffX_G0I1O_I2jBOz7y0S28uQotJL4ZwkUwi6XerIzaXkbVuaHwW1lSvZkTBDAaoC6HvlQHzhzWQTXOGg6dRs8b9RUDWSs7D_WgozDZM_xnV7an5qwBOJXmgyT1JFPqtAZlu9N8lGmq6DP7kEnGlvx0cs1QrGhuVcOVyjIzz7MWDjjdoQnqCPlw=w640-h430" title="My "Lifer" Ruddy Ground Dove - ruddy ground dove (Columbina talpacoti)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This species is a fairly rare wintering bird along the
southern tier of United States, although being fairly common from Mexico south
as far as Argentina.<span> </span>The species’ “Latin”
name is <i>Columbina talpacoti</i>, with <i>talpacoti</i> apparently being an
indigenous name for the bird.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6n3-BAL8aX8_aXZl9xUEn1GTk482zJIMP8AF8cXylLoagtVCJFvgBmySY-uIYgxof-UySNAqlsvX6s8hiB8-wAcIuqUiMEeMWrzQik4KlQN_u7uWCHeETQ7wLHT1AMkOtWGjEvCwHO44Fq8p3DYL8dtuMWAdHH2HOQi38hDB3FcBqVhkbkz1Ne8EZKw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6n3-BAL8aX8_aXZl9xUEn1GTk482zJIMP8AF8cXylLoagtVCJFvgBmySY-uIYgxof-UySNAqlsvX6s8hiB8-wAcIuqUiMEeMWrzQik4KlQN_u7uWCHeETQ7wLHT1AMkOtWGjEvCwHO44Fq8p3DYL8dtuMWAdHH2HOQi38hDB3FcBqVhkbkz1Ne8EZKw=w426-h640" title="The feeder area seemed 'modest', but attracted a lot of birds" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Our group saw 46 species today, and I was pleased to meet
<a href="https://robsbigyear2019.home.blog/" target="_blank">Rob Woodward</a>, who is doing his own birding Big Year.<span> </span>He keeps his Blog much more up-to-date than
I’ve been able to, and was apparently among the throng of birders at the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival two weeks ago.<span> </span>We didn’t have the chance to bird together
then, but made up for it today.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGgMMFDMKPEMk8zKiVZ9C_bHi4gNHDwbVUdTIXoWpWRudnXzukk7_BJvLA4B2hf_fZiDUnu9wVmfRFTsldGoBpvIIGpxiiNnvCU9XY-A55Wr2LjH9iJiMhXAZG1x15sUxpqqQK7MT6dGh6KoOjBNrPot4ieEth2b_Z9qW_Q3QuTvov3hdW6xaw6vpEHQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGgMMFDMKPEMk8zKiVZ9C_bHi4gNHDwbVUdTIXoWpWRudnXzukk7_BJvLA4B2hf_fZiDUnu9wVmfRFTsldGoBpvIIGpxiiNnvCU9XY-A55Wr2LjH9iJiMhXAZG1x15sUxpqqQK7MT6dGh6KoOjBNrPot4ieEth2b_Z9qW_Q3QuTvov3hdW6xaw6vpEHQ=w640-h426" title="San Pedro Riparian forest" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The walk was over a little before noon, so I made the
drive over toward Tubac, Arizona, where the Rose-throated Becards have been
seen recently.<span> </span>This will be my last
attempt to find this “nemesis” species for me this year.<span> </span>I arrived at the Anza Trailhead on Bridge
Street and walked north where a pair of the Becards has nested the past few
years.<span> </span>The wind was blowing pretty
strongly, and I saw few birds of any kind - and could hear practically none
over the rush of wind in the cottonwood leaves.<span>
</span>In fact, I was sort of concerned that the gusts might bring down some of
the trees.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLVIDCciYnJdWDRKtnDwsO0BrmF1jj0Kyk184TRWj1q9_OtaTTO416gwzf8a0Yhb5lthHGSzvmBPwnRPHAOoh_ZuBpqq6IjXG6l1OBHM98AT-9WbgNhzPE3xwiRsdzR_quCoiV9SIMSXGqynVDcoXbbp9VgwY9hfT251EgZ1xkPmBN7VXkqS_HZcyBSA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1253" data-original-width="2048" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLVIDCciYnJdWDRKtnDwsO0BrmF1jj0Kyk184TRWj1q9_OtaTTO416gwzf8a0Yhb5lthHGSzvmBPwnRPHAOoh_ZuBpqq6IjXG6l1OBHM98AT-9WbgNhzPE3xwiRsdzR_quCoiV9SIMSXGqynVDcoXbbp9VgwY9hfT251EgZ1xkPmBN7VXkqS_HZcyBSA=w640-h392" title="Inca Dove" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I gave up at dusk, and drove into Nogales, checking into
the El Dorado Inn.<span> </span>This place is clean,
but pretty bare-bones.<span> </span>It was at this
point that I realized I’d left my new Coleman cooler and drinks (beer!) in my
room in Sierra Vista when I checked out of the Magnuson Hotel this
morning.<span> </span>I called their front desk, but
the cleaning staff had not reported a cooler (!).<span> </span>I was tired and hungry so went down to the
nearby Denny’s for supper.<span> </span>If you eat
here, note that they will not let you know that they partner with AARP to offer
seniors a discount…<span> </span>You have to “remind”
them.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">San Pedro RNCA eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S61612503" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tubac De Anza Trail eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61614898" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAA-tU8sF_r6DvgSVfglkckfBxvtuDt-8KVev5x5yVova4jBdxXkzq-rdm7ZlBcN3Y1zAaoVANep5d3viDV077t_O-oAst1-XoRe5uHpq6jvGPfzLz6_-A7BLsHnt6x3_zZ0RxPV5nYneHl2NfAkCl8kj1Wppinj4YCwHUp0_L3ZmKMzryJA6VfD8foQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAA-tU8sF_r6DvgSVfglkckfBxvtuDt-8KVev5x5yVova4jBdxXkzq-rdm7ZlBcN3Y1zAaoVANep5d3viDV077t_O-oAst1-XoRe5uHpq6jvGPfzLz6_-A7BLsHnt6x3_zZ0RxPV5nYneHl2NfAkCl8kj1Wppinj4YCwHUp0_L3ZmKMzryJA6VfD8foQ=w640-h426" title="San Pedro House Birding . . ." width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0San Pedro House, Sierra Vista, AZ 85650, USA31.5480151 -110.14153073.2377812638211552 -145.2977807 59.858248936178846 -74.9852807tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093029693159546212.post-6933844350741020772021-10-10T11:20:00.001-07:002021-10-10T11:20:26.337-07:00November 19, 2019 - Where The Sand Is White<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig09DpjiC4YMSO_k6Th6LOZ6KJr8jYAbwHDIWp6gQ8zo8YJV5uB-H1FyHAoapyH66-zqnOpp42zkLNbxh55Ls5W2CA6parAgAEzumV4e2pe-svryIWc6xKh9EN_9LOGlvV8WcGCrFbmjLXrHE1-sS7UOKj9pEKGiRhBlibuHhymxEv2o9GZgRgeSZW9A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig09DpjiC4YMSO_k6Th6LOZ6KJr8jYAbwHDIWp6gQ8zo8YJV5uB-H1FyHAoapyH66-zqnOpp42zkLNbxh55Ls5W2CA6parAgAEzumV4e2pe-svryIWc6xKh9EN_9LOGlvV8WcGCrFbmjLXrHE1-sS7UOKj9pEKGiRhBlibuHhymxEv2o9GZgRgeSZW9A=w640-h426" title="Mexican Canyon" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was awake around 4:30 to an overcast, 47<span>º</span> morning and finally left the <a href="https://summitinn-nm.com/" target="_blank">Summit Inn</a> around 8:00 after a ‘breakfast’ of a piece of sausage and coffee… there's no breakfast at this Inn.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJuc30PMW2RVGNsJk_698VXZDZoENXZsN2iLUlGTC6yxToyRubUseQWEpSrK5667OwjPMZJu-EF3ta0jeD3AbvYlArHNCALmMwNMIBjwWw-LDJfwxO0lPCsgBPBpIqXs5KUoKLu2rz-BWwZq5elrXTRZpSOjCeNvEElmwFiHMWNwnMsRjfTo9CBHh0Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJuc30PMW2RVGNsJk_698VXZDZoENXZsN2iLUlGTC6yxToyRubUseQWEpSrK5667OwjPMZJu-EF3ta0jeD3AbvYlArHNCALmMwNMIBjwWw-LDJfwxO0lPCsgBPBpIqXs5KUoKLu2rz-BWwZq5elrXTRZpSOjCeNvEElmwFiHMWNwnMsRjfTo9CBHh0Q=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I stopped at the old Mexican Canyon Railroad Trestle
overlook, where in 1899 Charles Eddy built the “Cloud Climbing Railroad” into
the Sacramento mountains to extract the timber resources, and also developed
the tourist town of Cloudcroft.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9khfjo8Lb6a7JhuJ1VeMICcDtdXflI1IMzuNO79PUN0-rGhaJshoyQcFFFzcmtDyfOnLIMa5aA0hM3Z7UhCsM6Ujunj9m6O1ooJFaRBKVXjN9UnPLFllYSF8Bpy8B3bzEdkSIWlz_utWMY1HvmTEWU7XXhxhYcTiKYuxUDvz9Y-kF9zOFENi5TMuzUA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9khfjo8Lb6a7JhuJ1VeMICcDtdXflI1IMzuNO79PUN0-rGhaJshoyQcFFFzcmtDyfOnLIMa5aA0hM3Z7UhCsM6Ujunj9m6O1ooJFaRBKVXjN9UnPLFllYSF8Bpy8B3bzEdkSIWlz_utWMY1HvmTEWU7XXhxhYcTiKYuxUDvz9Y-kF9zOFENi5TMuzUA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>The
two-tiered wooden trestle is 323 feet long, and is pretty well preserved.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis0FSxEUYmYa_GBICUAOeoOIoCHoP7IO-RAGqIy5kxPr-c-a_X4sPESHTGAhIGQPt6zEALqWiflBy84GVB1q4NzkvJImdtdw-S6awJXXq-EaL0FQ8of2q8qMtt9laR6ghjGe1byRmXCVJ-WC2mppYIQiZ-_9u_KwTa3qsh2bHzGyd6SoyqU6mMNOkLaQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1407" data-original-width="2048" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis0FSxEUYmYa_GBICUAOeoOIoCHoP7IO-RAGqIy5kxPr-c-a_X4sPESHTGAhIGQPt6zEALqWiflBy84GVB1q4NzkvJImdtdw-S6awJXXq-EaL0FQ8of2q8qMtt9laR6ghjGe1byRmXCVJ-WC2mppYIQiZ-_9u_KwTa3qsh2bHzGyd6SoyqU6mMNOkLaQ=w640-h440" title="Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambelii)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Historical sites are always worth a stop, although I
doubt the Mountain Chickadees appreciated the trivia of human efforts.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtyhLyeo3mdaQMU4CpzFTby4a6X2nar9bS-OMDZf6mVTAAdAPl5vLhYi8J7JFbHNaTqUCcFIlboiR5t3Ya2eUJPidSuE1BoHZ9K5oOk80EQub0DBTucSL3UteKObXlCl-Wcv8lBCg1CFCJf7mXdHwhXgtjRr_CE4Qa_tMFKBG4Uu1-IYQDW0wvYo7_MA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtyhLyeo3mdaQMU4CpzFTby4a6X2nar9bS-OMDZf6mVTAAdAPl5vLhYi8J7JFbHNaTqUCcFIlboiR5t3Ya2eUJPidSuE1BoHZ9K5oOk80EQub0DBTucSL3UteKObXlCl-Wcv8lBCg1CFCJf7mXdHwhXgtjRr_CE4Qa_tMFKBG4Uu1-IYQDW0wvYo7_MA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I dropped down the mountain to Alamogordo and visited the
White Sands National Monument, to spend some time walking some of the trails
and driving the loop.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9JI9xNQXzMO2SOzgj1TKp5H4d_dHjAAO_pY9T0zBtyN5kcNYuRZSRSeA8nVg6WTZqcCP_GyZLod9raHzy2wmd293O5RqoXtIe-qBKiILhioVINttUQ-99DKSb1ejHToCDd4EtdT0EcgdJCZ5qGrZQ64AH5uUlgQAPBz-LL4DYErVc7esjrs_Zpgvlzw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9JI9xNQXzMO2SOzgj1TKp5H4d_dHjAAO_pY9T0zBtyN5kcNYuRZSRSeA8nVg6WTZqcCP_GyZLod9raHzy2wmd293O5RqoXtIe-qBKiILhioVINttUQ-99DKSb1ejHToCDd4EtdT0EcgdJCZ5qGrZQ64AH5uUlgQAPBz-LL4DYErVc7esjrs_Zpgvlzw=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>The sands are
white because they are made of almost pure gypsum.<span> </span>The 275 square-mile gypsum dune field is the
largest of its kind on Earth, with “… a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes
as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.1 billion metric tons of gypsum sand.”</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkDDIJZEhhPES9FdtQGy8Q0J0Z5G1V5mGUt5APkDfWcCNS2rNxHCSj38EGVa38VjZUY_3XU91HNMC2uaU2IZ_nSDElYT_ylAr1CRmzWp8OzW_VTO-8eLVjmLLBxJMEhqQPzl_eBcE_1wW7nDKsUL_YyaUHpDtZs8_B-X0GdrMbOwvc3ouIEnfZwBm3DQ=s1786" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1786" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkDDIJZEhhPES9FdtQGy8Q0J0Z5G1V5mGUt5APkDfWcCNS2rNxHCSj38EGVa38VjZUY_3XU91HNMC2uaU2IZ_nSDElYT_ylAr1CRmzWp8OzW_VTO-8eLVjmLLBxJMEhqQPzl_eBcE_1wW7nDKsUL_YyaUHpDtZs8_B-X0GdrMbOwvc3ouIEnfZwBm3DQ=w640-h360" title="Sky Hawk - the F-16" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Park is completely surrounded by the <a href="https://www.wsmr.army.mil/" target="_blank">White Sands Missile Range</a> , infamous as the place that the U.S. in 1945 first detonated an Atomic Bomb! The Park is also adjacent to the <a href="https://www.holloman.af.mil/" target="_blank">Holloman Air Force Base</a>, which provided intermittent but regular deafening fly-overs.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqIZg0L9juvVsCISmrESH2VejC23tWxK5O6ahfipJn7oQaqNF8QtxU3mwJbTDbLieoVpKAsQWpobCsWQ0QhzgZMqhZHIJP7PEBvMZmfGtPyO5sbvi4BT31GOTxiEyD8rceOB3jHkOViLvFslBlQ51WYpFelcMlHAniAzNDZ419S1_S43V1SEMC51D9kQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqIZg0L9juvVsCISmrESH2VejC23tWxK5O6ahfipJn7oQaqNF8QtxU3mwJbTDbLieoVpKAsQWpobCsWQ0QhzgZMqhZHIJP7PEBvMZmfGtPyO5sbvi4BT31GOTxiEyD8rceOB3jHkOViLvFslBlQ51WYpFelcMlHAniAzNDZ419S1_S43V1SEMC51D9kQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I started along the Dune Life Nature Trail, where the
path is marked by what are, surely, temporary trail markers.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaPc-sdkJ8NkPmeUMYGYlo2UJ8eKVywStCqduzaI4JNM-ZY8QAzUVxuYDEmL6TI5ni4KCPZpEVCpselX2o9otpHkCoRkxzqjtoyq-vmcNlbW7AXVLZPII-oOhi9Nhznxvayao7E9iwhwGfOheeVroJ9PijmbnurXvxfJsL_eMkb4TO7N9Nll_NfDeaPQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaPc-sdkJ8NkPmeUMYGYlo2UJ8eKVywStCqduzaI4JNM-ZY8QAzUVxuYDEmL6TI5ni4KCPZpEVCpselX2o9otpHkCoRkxzqjtoyq-vmcNlbW7AXVLZPII-oOhi9Nhznxvayao7E9iwhwGfOheeVroJ9PijmbnurXvxfJsL_eMkb4TO7N9Nll_NfDeaPQ=w426-h640" title="Soaptree Yucca" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The plants and animals of White Sands must survive in a
constantly changing landscape compared to other arid environments.<span> </span>A good example is the Soaptree yucca (<i>Yucca
elata</i>), which adapts to the shifting dunes by its rapid growth.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbw03AeByJJ3yxvUbUzWIqHOY1dBEBKoCX4h5bJiz3gjumjt3LBvHKwxiEOJMV1IdqueAgByIXJp8E_8GMHyu0gH7mHKMivkAGkq65VrL_eI_qC25-4zK-HWB5n8QnWY2xUSzpTq5t6ZdLKu6aqgt1CoFyVmFozCJ3TLNOLSsNAY_Nccq3FYYLZSOK-g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbw03AeByJJ3yxvUbUzWIqHOY1dBEBKoCX4h5bJiz3gjumjt3LBvHKwxiEOJMV1IdqueAgByIXJp8E_8GMHyu0gH7mHKMivkAGkq65VrL_eI_qC25-4zK-HWB5n8QnWY2xUSzpTq5t6ZdLKu6aqgt1CoFyVmFozCJ3TLNOLSsNAY_Nccq3FYYLZSOK-g=w640-h350" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yuccas first take root in the inter-dunal soils.<span> </span>As the dune edges up and over the plant,
pushed by the constant winds, it elongates its stem to keep its leaves above
the sand for photosynthesis.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP_tp8S-SnVHHJPjhEk0C6I-3pOev_G2GifLK-cabBju7Bl3ezGByv-GjNBUX6tm2kPvCykwswa2yZWy3YDmslXNjItS_GVFwJv-smpq1V0UhfbL56unF9NXWWgKvNZSlv9KYZeQYQCFR9iEtp9M5sD5fX8J28M5kqYP9rpwyD0eHicj5TF-jNK3T27Q=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP_tp8S-SnVHHJPjhEk0C6I-3pOev_G2GifLK-cabBju7Bl3ezGByv-GjNBUX6tm2kPvCykwswa2yZWy3YDmslXNjItS_GVFwJv-smpq1V0UhfbL56unF9NXWWgKvNZSlv9KYZeQYQCFR9iEtp9M5sD5fX8J28M5kqYP9rpwyD0eHicj5TF-jNK3T27Q=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">What may look like a 4-to-6-foot tall yucca growing on
top of a dune is actually much longer, with a long stem connecting to its roots
in the inter-dunal soil!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLYqj8TpNELXLtX7gSB2N7kE5VGKf79ydL0cnj6rCuJHBQ5Xis8E_QMpvMwJWogeD2gDb8xyFYpvDVt0cFgg30Jr3HQ-kV6g4P_y16fl1lNM07gVEu4OKZOOsbpUCSi43b-p_uA2Edf-FsmyJxog_9rkRhYGv5RUw12zitDV477fqqLxN5lcal4GmoFw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLYqj8TpNELXLtX7gSB2N7kE5VGKf79ydL0cnj6rCuJHBQ5Xis8E_QMpvMwJWogeD2gDb8xyFYpvDVt0cFgg30Jr3HQ-kV6g4P_y16fl1lNM07gVEu4OKZOOsbpUCSi43b-p_uA2Edf-FsmyJxog_9rkRhYGv5RUw12zitDV477fqqLxN5lcal4GmoFw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Other trees attempt to make their living among the dunes.<span> </span>I believe this is a Rio Grande cottonwood (<i>Populus
deltoides wislizeni</i>).</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxKKjg5Q0382yrwE9xhjetBnU1smsKsrNxXH8N0FFf-y3OXqUSG3IWrkZliXWDSQU628rfSgL5PDPBhnZBRP6katz_uV-UPnEWPpmxqHPRpDwXBOMdpJcVljWpkwYc_zS6vxJjPIXShGjhoI-ONkscGChRRDeVA8qwBWonEwD6NyoQCgkF1MCT78XZ5A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxKKjg5Q0382yrwE9xhjetBnU1smsKsrNxXH8N0FFf-y3OXqUSG3IWrkZliXWDSQU628rfSgL5PDPBhnZBRP6katz_uV-UPnEWPpmxqHPRpDwXBOMdpJcVljWpkwYc_zS6vxJjPIXShGjhoI-ONkscGChRRDeVA8qwBWonEwD6NyoQCgkF1MCT78XZ5A=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Some fail at the task.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7d-_JonfjVGsMEJrif7R_BJxBbLm4MsW3j2a4ofFgAlcVn-tvimeBZdP1fF_tuZ2b31ovCtzuCkD1UApCrdjn_9PJAdAPPFwl9Rsh5QNWAG1zeTcLhv20QJFDTwBwy4yn5ozHZRYx84qwfIrE9L9hZvArk7x0RMfFG3x248TE-vFF7HNFis-LKZx0BA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7d-_JonfjVGsMEJrif7R_BJxBbLm4MsW3j2a4ofFgAlcVn-tvimeBZdP1fF_tuZ2b31ovCtzuCkD1UApCrdjn_9PJAdAPPFwl9Rsh5QNWAG1zeTcLhv20QJFDTwBwy4yn5ozHZRYx84qwfIrE9L9hZvArk7x0RMfFG3x248TE-vFF7HNFis-LKZx0BA=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Playa trail is a level half-mile walk with, yes, more
interpretive signs.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvEQf9nI5aBzdCLnmatDxJ0nJCmf9k2_IxCBkAYvfHi6eCmEUf7tU3uFZdv7iqGwOa5rEao6sPdKm7F4wGNBqFAa3Gs3MudsSxFgTMl7pt-w8Y6XFed4lz-K38f7Zv2j5V5XLwIydayF3HAfWbiqEPU9LgkwWOMTFCJ_Rg9-gLd4tS4lqK9ZZCJL67Wg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvEQf9nI5aBzdCLnmatDxJ0nJCmf9k2_IxCBkAYvfHi6eCmEUf7tU3uFZdv7iqGwOa5rEao6sPdKm7F4wGNBqFAa3Gs3MudsSxFgTMl7pt-w8Y6XFed4lz-K38f7Zv2j5V5XLwIydayF3HAfWbiqEPU9LgkwWOMTFCJ_Rg9-gLd4tS4lqK9ZZCJL67Wg=w640-h426" title="Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens)" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4GckdLqX4jSF4pn4x-M3moW6H4arCifqJc1U_7P83LfTF5eCIq6BY2CuftlBCedWPS04PUP9Yi8MyErV4QsMk0IJwwx66poK55QRfG23ytPmVHEk5MdTA-XxWgBym0eCYSSHaU5wKN6sS6eLDv28dHru4t4fLyqUd3UCuA1V5eM315lhW2t7f-Y_IlA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4GckdLqX4jSF4pn4x-M3moW6H4arCifqJc1U_7P83LfTF5eCIq6BY2CuftlBCedWPS04PUP9Yi8MyErV4QsMk0IJwwx66poK55QRfG23ytPmVHEk5MdTA-XxWgBym0eCYSSHaU5wKN6sS6eLDv28dHru4t4fLyqUd3UCuA1V5eM315lhW2t7f-Y_IlA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">One sign highlighted an old friend of mine from my days in southeastern Oregon, the four-wing saltbush. <br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbLgrUxI1aUSJ2z1eLCfLYRGcCfL0Qia5x4iyrxzXcNjXL7f5nrj9KiDE2Y8IqWDZtSWwApr91Ah7zoO4qbFyOIbOCkruP9oFgKtcMwMIWHuVPhWvD5Nd85X_8jqXmu7V3sCMKR5l4RUVhcXoa_SUYMkd5EFrSCS92huBUGOev9nWIfXR5inpCQhO9KA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbLgrUxI1aUSJ2z1eLCfLYRGcCfL0Qia5x4iyrxzXcNjXL7f5nrj9KiDE2Y8IqWDZtSWwApr91Ah7zoO4qbFyOIbOCkruP9oFgKtcMwMIWHuVPhWvD5Nd85X_8jqXmu7V3sCMKR5l4RUVhcXoa_SUYMkd5EFrSCS92huBUGOev9nWIfXR5inpCQhO9KA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>The evaporation pan
was white when I visited, but it may be brown, filled with water, or have
growing selenite crystals.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwVGHHc6B2UzZYbWrT9mMcVHIKE1V2s5TZOmmAo_cDkgYfVM8Gfr_k6plI0SfHYQDfLskFG7bseXoZmsTHUtJ4GUNTMgsrmS_APAXHKe74MZwrXUeAata5ioZ-XdxTaO3fOhqQxgRYa8Jz_zwPe6S_Y7M4I6RRY9i44lM4Z4T8ebw0OjIwvt_sopIOPg=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwVGHHc6B2UzZYbWrT9mMcVHIKE1V2s5TZOmmAo_cDkgYfVM8Gfr_k6plI0SfHYQDfLskFG7bseXoZmsTHUtJ4GUNTMgsrmS_APAXHKe74MZwrXUeAata5ioZ-XdxTaO3fOhqQxgRYa8Jz_zwPe6S_Y7M4I6RRY9i44lM4Z4T8ebw0OjIwvt_sopIOPg=w640-h360" title="Photo stolen from the US Government: https://www.nps.gov/places/finding-footprints-interpretive-sign.htm" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">One of the signs indicated that the tracks of mammoths,
dire wolves, camels and American lions have been found here, but that the wind
quickly erases all trace of the exposed remnants of the Pleistocene tracks.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHdg9K4vYrqKtSU15P8IC-4WcYqNO669lU739upT-ZoPTdJBrDA9ezmZ7MiCdHWsooNatGg23JLMoKrtTKcC8xPV_IJ5Eit6QpY6YN7AE5ep9keFLv5X4F-djN-P6JDxJYtp_vFBVP-XwuKraSE-bpQpbLia1du7r5SAPNbvqbCcXQy01T1SpByGVrwQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHdg9K4vYrqKtSU15P8IC-4WcYqNO669lU739upT-ZoPTdJBrDA9ezmZ7MiCdHWsooNatGg23JLMoKrtTKcC8xPV_IJ5Eit6QpY6YN7AE5ep9keFLv5X4F-djN-P6JDxJYtp_vFBVP-XwuKraSE-bpQpbLia1du7r5SAPNbvqbCcXQy01T1SpByGVrwQ=w426-h640" title="A Beetle of Some Sort Crawled Across Here . . ." width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXM0fd1oyHvopM6LIY6IhhIWiMdNrufF1mWWzRHrkfZOGTiCJPJE9vaXeXPVq3PCo4zPSHVy_XUQ8oHkBMykz_2gYy5mm_AXYsA7LSViCtKb5gxYUEdd4B9Xq46ACR2C9lF4N9Fff_CU3FPXIfnTmbx1o2xGulYilc0wUINChn-MYEmL3FpooMhlVHqw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXM0fd1oyHvopM6LIY6IhhIWiMdNrufF1mWWzRHrkfZOGTiCJPJE9vaXeXPVq3PCo4zPSHVy_XUQ8oHkBMykz_2gYy5mm_AXYsA7LSViCtKb5gxYUEdd4B9Xq46ACR2C9lF4N9Fff_CU3FPXIfnTmbx1o2xGulYilc0wUINChn-MYEmL3FpooMhlVHqw=w640-h426" title="Tracks of a Bird" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span></span>All I could find were recent tracks of birds
and beetles. These are even more ephemeral than those of the Mammoths.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBxLwnPsvRtmIzQv8sLJuOGX8Ocint-Gbrk5P1QOnkmC3ZAYCXrShQYiutB5e4bZKSEsTgsJ3d5qZlOhh8fJDwu4vkJaadK0xB2JKpMTaYSFJuaCRxcgQxZm-jmASCiOW1Ye1FbdUKO6aOCEBEeaQh0uKyUH-VCR-X8wPj64VuK2doewzJYMHQtEZvgw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="2048" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBxLwnPsvRtmIzQv8sLJuOGX8Ocint-Gbrk5P1QOnkmC3ZAYCXrShQYiutB5e4bZKSEsTgsJ3d5qZlOhh8fJDwu4vkJaadK0xB2JKpMTaYSFJuaCRxcgQxZm-jmASCiOW1Ye1FbdUKO6aOCEBEeaQh0uKyUH-VCR-X8wPj64VuK2doewzJYMHQtEZvgw=w640-h398" title="Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">There were pretty few birds to be seen today, but this Horned Lark wasn't too shy.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihCND2oeAh8kIn0Tfrq3F9TG9tqWHTPGlWnI5yIStQwM_-Eh_mr_2DHyWYd90G-dMEYk9QrhJReyjKGXZEP0MLiXoyCTOUBcrU3V3BvKdmXwiY-6J1Amxep57bnv9OY4ihbHTfX14XY8W1Y5o6FCZgexosqq0D3Rrkaw2FGzb8j5ZdlVP7H_7IU7BCyg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihCND2oeAh8kIn0Tfrq3F9TG9tqWHTPGlWnI5yIStQwM_-Eh_mr_2DHyWYd90G-dMEYk9QrhJReyjKGXZEP0MLiXoyCTOUBcrU3V3BvKdmXwiY-6J1Amxep57bnv9OY4ihbHTfX14XY8W1Y5o6FCZgexosqq0D3Rrkaw2FGzb8j5ZdlVP7H_7IU7BCyg=w640-h426" title="Torrey’s Jointfir (Ephedra torreyana)" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">This strange-looking shrub intrigued me. Torrey’s Jointfir (<i>Ephedra
torreyana</i>), is in the same genus as the epinephrine-producing Mormon tea (<i>E. viridis</i>) and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnetophyta" target="_blank">distantly related to the conifer trees</a>.<span>
</span>Like the pines and firs, the plant produces “cones” rather than
flowers.<span> </span>Nearly leafless, the jointfir
photosynthesizes through its pale green, jointed stems.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdE7b64fOJgyjUzVeFJrR4FOaRc8e20GgL3UFfmSY7Hj-YFSxFSz9_GY7siLkbgJ834oG4kbzVU2WMYwQ5Q4PBWbL2XIMafHUcWOM6Z2svLn7we1eYRzFKe3zoZPcpOVSj1fndLY7J_EZA_BLKFOT55oU1fBfQSD0UjsoA9Y5HD7mc6G3NMXELd22ryQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdE7b64fOJgyjUzVeFJrR4FOaRc8e20GgL3UFfmSY7Hj-YFSxFSz9_GY7siLkbgJ834oG4kbzVU2WMYwQ5Q4PBWbL2XIMafHUcWOM6Z2svLn7we1eYRzFKe3zoZPcpOVSj1fndLY7J_EZA_BLKFOT55oU1fBfQSD0UjsoA9Y5HD7mc6G3NMXELd22ryQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I drove out the auto tour route, still amazed at the
expanse of gypsum dunes, and was glad that I “ticked” a visit to this natural
resource.<span> </span>The diversity of life and
habitats in North America continues to astound me.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpgdhrIYSVI6HtYZoFY9Hu0C3HTlE1d0AImEJzXpOSyIi-w0iF69eEzzH2jJmGjf1MhiMdLqVB3I6-Ev4ksP0t4UV2bNBLMIIa-ZvO2Mh1Qzot8rEKjo5azfOCKWZO3dWtyrmSWBOk1sxZArF07aPHMbnDUmBJZCy3qwLByiYWeWL26c--JbeQX-WRUA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpgdhrIYSVI6HtYZoFY9Hu0C3HTlE1d0AImEJzXpOSyIi-w0iF69eEzzH2jJmGjf1MhiMdLqVB3I6-Ev4ksP0t4UV2bNBLMIIa-ZvO2Mh1Qzot8rEKjo5azfOCKWZO3dWtyrmSWBOk1sxZArF07aPHMbnDUmBJZCy3qwLByiYWeWL26c--JbeQX-WRUA=w426-h640" title="Geronimo Surrender Monument" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Leaving the sands, I drove west into Arizona, and had to
stop to check out a large monument along State Highway 80, discovering it
to be the Geronimo surrender monument, built in 1934.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg_6PfXFBHBJ1xVdJwQPbb2OcQYnl8dlCMskXHRl493BiD-aNo3Iq6gaXc_HLNwx2cnu-1WXaVOvLrAKrM4jutuwQaYlNEWcgD1TPzq9ZEjvzjC1Nsn6Xv3TUhaNTLcctpuJzErQbEQE4eGpYE1r7q6hixsAh7hFx9ugiaQKx73Jex29WxjTt5yVDC5g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1579" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg_6PfXFBHBJ1xVdJwQPbb2OcQYnl8dlCMskXHRl493BiD-aNo3Iq6gaXc_HLNwx2cnu-1WXaVOvLrAKrM4jutuwQaYlNEWcgD1TPzq9ZEjvzjC1Nsn6Xv3TUhaNTLcctpuJzErQbEQE4eGpYE1r7q6hixsAh7hFx9ugiaQKx73Jex29WxjTt5yVDC5g=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">On September 4, 1886, the Apache leaders Nachite and Geronimo
and his band of followers surrendered to General Nelson Miles in the nearby
Skeleton Canyon. <span> </span>After years on the run
and guerrilla warfare with both United States and Mexican soldiers, the
formidable shaman and war leader submitted to U.S. custody for the final time.<span> </span>Geronimo, bless his soul, never got to return
to the reservation in his homelands, as the authorities (including Teddy
Roosevelt) feared the animosities of the white Arizonans toward the last of the
Apache warriors.<span> </span>He died of pneumonia in
Oklahoma at the Fort Sill hospital in 1909, as a prisoner of war, regretting his
decision to surrender.<span> </span>Geronimo is
buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery, among the graves of relatives
and other Apache prisoners of war.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigBYmpNt-rxyi4sPDhME1qle2guA4CCOy6vY9k30gHH2L694DA8TqOqnTa-qYRc4JKnMNFc9S8CR3m3Ni0dIshZlF0_hp_qOCwhvIVbAwFGa_hXpgVI9oD_q8VopW0y1SBltkOIvaaWtI0i_C6ZqvJ8tacHWkkEEW8OZu6Ewjo2Gw7V3hM0GzKrV2YMw=s802" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="802" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigBYmpNt-rxyi4sPDhME1qle2guA4CCOy6vY9k30gHH2L694DA8TqOqnTa-qYRc4JKnMNFc9S8CR3m3Ni0dIshZlF0_hp_qOCwhvIVbAwFGa_hXpgVI9oD_q8VopW0y1SBltkOIvaaWtI0i_C6ZqvJ8tacHWkkEEW8OZu6Ewjo2Gw7V3hM0GzKrV2YMw=w640-h478" title="IMAGE: JOHN WILSON" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I stopped for the night at Sierra Vista where I checked
into the Magnuson Hotel, which is a bit older and spartan, but clean and had a
comfortable bed.<span> </span>The gentleman checking
me in suggested that I try the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-German-Cafe-Sierra-Vista-AZ-117977264904346/" target="_blank">German Café</a> on Fry Boulevard.<span> </span>It was only a few blocks away, so I checked
it out & I’m glad I did, because they served a wonderful schnitzel for
supper.<span> </span>And, my waitress had the
prettiest smile.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Mexican Canyon Trestle overlook eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61579766" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">White Sands National Park eBird checklist is <a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S61587697" target="_blank">Here</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjix3U84PR3I99q-9zb3_m99eSt4uWEJFFEr3NOUqG8nZ8QWXclyY9FUAcPBFsIy_Kyt_g6ZxT7w9fzmdq_HD9EmfyDj6LAW4qiN34W46D7ByMV_eN5nVgv6WqqRpL2EedlR95yb-h6sOFKjzKEPr4I9LYz1EC8qH4OZOHFEAs0MiM7wIagKey9dCjAEg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjix3U84PR3I99q-9zb3_m99eSt4uWEJFFEr3NOUqG8nZ8QWXclyY9FUAcPBFsIy_Kyt_g6ZxT7w9fzmdq_HD9EmfyDj6LAW4qiN34W46D7ByMV_eN5nVgv6WqqRpL2EedlR95yb-h6sOFKjzKEPr4I9LYz1EC8qH4OZOHFEAs0MiM7wIagKey9dCjAEg=w640-h426" title="Gray Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) at White Sands Natl. Park" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> </span></span></span></p>Jon. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16006987870301113438noreply@blogger.com0White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA32.7872403 -106.32568164.4770064638211551 -141.4819316 61.097474136178846 -71.1694316