On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Rowan and I spent some time out looking for birds today. After not seeing anything unusual in the Channel, we went out to Starrigavan. The tide was up pretty high, reaching the full flood while we were there. I checked along the upper part of the estuary and did not find any unusual sparrows. While … Read more
Every so often a crow shows up around town with some pale feathers. It’s fun to try and keep track of where they go, as the feathers make them much easier to identify as an individual. A couple of weeks ago I first noticed this crow with pale feathers at Swan Lake. Since that time … Read more
Even totally motion blurred in flight, a juvenile Sabine’s Gull is not hard to recognize I was looking out the window from class at UAS this afternoon when I saw a very distinctively different looking gull flying out over the Channel. My thought was that it was probably a Sabine’s Gull, so I suggested my … Read more
It seems like every fall I spend a little time making special note of some of the pockets of color that I find, and this year was no exception. On a mid-October trip to Starrigavan Estuary I noticed there were several Pacific crabapples (Malus fusca) with yellow leaves tucked between the dark green boughs of … Read more
Overnight I woke up multiple times to sound of wind and rain, so eventually things did pick up. I took a look at the wind map for last evening and 6pm and 9pm (local time). It was interesting to see the tightly wrapped winds (presumably around the low) at 6pm south of Baranof Island (see … Read more
Forecast was for strong winds this evening and overnight, but as I came home after visiting Marge (over an hour after the advisory took effect) it was very calm, almost strangely so. It actually made me wonder if we were in the eye of the low pressure or something. When got home, I pulled up … Read more