This morning when I was on my way to dad’s place I walked underneath a road bridge to check to see if the dippers were were working on a nest. I watched the dippers nest under that bridge for the past two or three years. I sat down on a rock and watched the nests for a little while. I watched two dippers caring up nesting materials, but the funny thing was that they cared the nesting materials to two different nests. As I was watching the dippers work on the nests I noticed that there was a kingfisher sitting on a rock in the river. I then watched it fly down to another rock. It looked to me like it might have had a nest in the river bank some where along there, but it was getting late and I had not gotten to dad’s yet so I left and went to dad’s.
Once I got there I left for the park.
I walked down along the harbor felt the wind in my face. I walked out on the breakwater and looked at the water and birds that were out there.
I walked down to the entrance of the park and walked into the forest. I walked out onto the beach and walked along the top of the beach then back into the forest once I got to the river. I walked up along the river and stopped about where the kingfisher had been hanging out earlier that day. Just as I stopped to looked across the river to see if they were there. I saw one kingfisher fly out of a hole in the bank and another one fly off a stump that near by. After I crossed the river I walked down along the bank and saw that there were two holes along the bank. I went back across the river and looked around while I was waiting for the kingfishers to come back. After a while one did come back but it was the male and I did not see it go into the hole. It was getting later so I got up and started heading back to the house. On my way back I saw a wren getting nesting materials. I saw where it flew and followed it. It flew to a big tree stump that had fallen over. I walked around the back of it and as I did the wren flew out of a hole. I looked by where it flew out from and found the nest. I went a little ways back and watched the nest for a few minutes but I did not see the wren come back so I left.
- Question are the kingfishers going to nest along this part of the river this year?
- Question is the wren going to use the nest this year?
- Question which nest are the dippers going to use?
