Mostly cloudy with light winds. Frosty overnight, but temperatures into the 40s.
A closer-to-yellow-shafted Northern Flicker landed on the neighbor’s roof not long after I was up and about this morning. Most of the ones I see here have red shafts (though face/head markings are more consistent with what’s expected on yellow-shafted). Only rarely have I seen shafts that look closer to yellow (not striking yellow, but definitely more orange than red). In those cases, face/head markings have been more consistent with red-shafted.
I was not feeling too ambitious today, but did go for a drive late this morning.
I saw 13 Trumpeter Swans at Starrigavan. Also Green-winged Teal. I’m not surprised some are around, but I hadn’t noticed any since we settled into the more winter season.
Three Canada Geese flew over when I was parked at the kelp patch pullout.
Swan Lake was apparently cold enough that a layer of ice covered over 95% of it after just one night of near freezing temperatures. Considering the forecast, I expect it will melt off again this week.
Last night I got my Christmas Bazaar photo sales into my spreadsheet. I ended up having 15 images that were first time sales. Of those, 3 were brand new for this market. Most of the rest had probably been available for all the markets.
Today I struggled a bit trying to get an ordering page set up for my calendar. I went a more complicated route this time. I worked on setting up WooCommerce on my website. In principle, if I get that going, I can sell stuff there. Alternatively, I could set up an online shop through Square (which is the point of sale vendor I use). I had previously tried to set up a pay-now link through Square to keep things simple, but I couldn’t work out a way to allow for shipping for out of town orders and no shipping for local orders. I ended up having the same issue with the setup on my website.
I also was slowed down a little by issues with my site. It may be due to a bloated database. I began looking into suggestions for cleaning it up. Hopefully that will help. If not, then I may consider trying to reinstall the site from scratch, but given the 15+ years of posts and photos, that could be a lot of work.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
