On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Shorebirds have been showing up over the past few days, but today was the first time I got good looks at any that aren’t typically seen over wintering in the area. There was a single Black-bellied Plover (though 3 were reported yesterday, I didn’t get a chance to see them), a couple of Dunlin, and … Read more
Despite overcast and light rain, I decided to see if the hybrid duck would be up along the shore with the high tide around noon. It was there, but never came particularly close to me during the time I spent on the beach. At one point I saw over a dozen American Robins fly up … Read more
Today was the first low tide that seemed like a good spring tide. It wasn’t all that low at a predicted -1.2 or so, but it occurred in daylight hours in the morning. Rowan likes to search for things at the beach, so I joined her for a while this morning and managed to find … Read more
Another day of active cloud formation over the mountains. They were not really moving fast enough for me to observe directly, but I suspect there was more motion than I realized and decided to do a time lapse sequence of the clouds over Mt. Edgecumbe at John Brown’s Beach. I was originally hoping that the … Read more
Although it’s officially the first day of spring and despite much of the last couple of months having above freezing temperatures, we received some snow and temperatures down into the 20s. Today sunny skies prevailed and as has been the case on several days over the past week or so, I noticed there were fresh … Read more
Yesterday I noticed quite a few gulls at Swan Lake (many Thayer’s Gulls in particular) as well as numerous gulls near the base of O’Connell bridge. I suspected an influx of migrants, but regrettably did not think to take a picture at the time. Today they seemed to have moved on. I noticed my first … Read more