Clear and cold this morning. Overcast by the afternoon and remaining cool. Light snow this evening.
I spent most of the day at the Made in Sitka Market. It ended up being my second best day in terms of revenue. However, it felt a bit slow and I had fewer sales than most other days (though sold proportionately more larger prints). From the sounds of it, yesterday was much better. This doesn’t surprise me. I would have signed up for both days, but I was too slow about deciding and Saturday was full by the time I did.
The picture of a pair of Cedar Waxwings has been a popular one
With limited daylight this time of year, I did not have much opportunity for getting out to make some observations (to continue my iNaturalist streak).
Fortunately after getting my stuff down to the market, I had enough time for a short walk around the area.
My eye was drawn by the waning gibbous moon over St. Michael’s. I took a few pictures, and then looked for some birds.
Around town ravens are frequent. I only saw a couple in the large cottonwood where I’ve previously noted they gather in the morning. I suspect they still do, but had already mostly dispersed.
As the sun was just peaking over the mountains, a flock of crows flew across library cove and began to forage on the exposed tide flats.
Behind the Centennial building I noticed a raven poking around in the grass. A couple of times it held something in its beak that I think may have been food. I didn’t follow up to see, but I suspect the raven was caching food.
I think the raven pushed some food down in the grass, but I didn't get a photo when it was holding whatever it had in its mouth
Coming around the building, a raven on the peak of the roof kept opening its wings almost like it was catching its balance. I didn’t hear any calls when it did that. However, it began making calls and different gestures shortly later. It’s hard to imagine the raven was losing its balance, so I am guessing the movements were meaningful in some other way.
It's difficult to capture in a still image, but the way the raven opened its wings made it look to me like it was catching its balance. However, I doubt that was the case
Fading light with skies of gray greeted me as I loaded up my stuff after the market.
This evening we had a small turnout at ultimate, but did play catch while visiting for an hour.
I enjoyed seeing a long string of tracks that had almost certainly been made by the Sandhill Crane. It had landed in center/left outfield and walked over to the right field line.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
