Yesterday I went down to the park. It was a nice sunny when I went down there it was still sunny when I left. The river is no longer smelling like die fish which is nice it makes it nicer to walk around the park when half the walk does not smell like die fish. It was low tide when I was down there and there I saw there were less gulls down there this time then there have been earlier in the fall. The black oystercatchers are starting to move back to the park beach as well they were gone over the late spring and summer and early fall but now they are starting to come back and are starting to grow in numbers. I all so saw a gadwall down there with the mallards. I heard black turnstones and saw and heard bald eagles down there. There also seems to be less bald eagles around the park then there was earlier in the fall. There are no pink or chum salmon alive in the river any more the only salmon that I know of that is alive in the river still is coho salmon which is a later run then pinks or chums. The dark eyed juncos are also starting to come back and are going to feeders more now then they did in the summer. Every thing else though has been pretty slow.
- Question why are there not more nesting black oystercatchers around here?
- Question why are there less gulls here now then earlier in the fall?
- Question Why do black turnstone not nest around here?
