This morning I got up and headed over to the airport.
I walked over the bridge and saw some pine Siskins in some Alder trees by the road.
I walked over to the old airport road. I walked down the road and watched for birds but I did not see any.
I walked back up and over the bridge and headed for the lake.
I walked to the lake and saw some Mallards, Ring-necked ducks, a couple American coots, a few American wigeons, some Northwestern crows and one frozen duck. After that I walked home.
Today when I went down to the park for the second time, it was cloudy, but not all that cold.
When I was near the breakwater, I saw the loon that’s been there for awhile again, it was fairly close to the rocks on the harbor side.
When I was out on the breakwater, I saw some sea gulls.
When I was nearing the entrance of the park, I saw about twelve moths on the visitor center’s wall under a light.
When I was out at the battle side bench, I saw some more sea gulls and it was high tide.
When I was on the trail by the river, I saw two eagles fighting over what was probably a few scraps of fish, and one was hanging upside down while the other was on the top of the branch. Before I could get some photos, the one hanging upside down flew off and shortly after, so did the other one. There were also a bunch of crows and about seven other eagles in the trees near where the two eagles were.
I also saw a few swans, ducks and mergansers on the other side of the river.
Why was the one eagle hanging upside down?
Why were there so many moths?
Why were the crows there?
Today when I went down to the park for the first time, it was wet and a bit cold and some slush was still on the ground.
When I was out on the breakwater, I saw a kingfisher and the common loon again. I got some photos of both of them. I also heard some shorebirds but I couldn’t see where they were.
When I was out at the battle site bench, it was high tide and I saw some harlequins out on the water.
When I was on the trail by the river, I saw a few common mergansers and ducks on the other side of the river. I also saw a seal out in the water by the grass, it stuck around for all the time I was watching it and was still there when I left.
When I was on my way back home going by sage beach, I saw some black Turnstones on a few of the smaller rocks by sage rock and I figured that they were the same ones I’d heard before.
Why is the loon still in the harbor?
Why was the seal hanging out by the grass?
Why is the loon around the same area when I see it?
On Sunday I walked down to the park and looked around. I saw a couple of Trumpeter Swans and some mallards and other ducks. When I looked through some Wigeons that were out there, as I looked through them I saw one with a bit more red/brown head then the others around it and it looked like a female Eurasian Wigeon that spent the winter here last year. I took some photos and looked at when I got home and saw that it was a Eurasian Wigeon.
On Monday When Grandpa and I got home from hunting (we did not get anything but we did see one deer) Dad told me that Rowan had seen the Purple Finch again so I went out to look for it.
I walked around the neighborhood looking for it. As I walked Jeff Davis Street I saw a Sharp-shinned Hawk go down into a tree after some birds but it did not look like it got on. As I walked up to try to get photos of it I saw a small warbler take off out of a little bush by the sidewalk and go across the road to some bushes on the other side. I crossed the road and looked for the warbler I found it in some small Hemlock trees and I got some photos of it and it looked like a Wilson’s warbler. 
As I walked back towards home I saw a bird in a big Spruce tree that did not look right. It was about the size of a junco but the coloring looked off so I looked through my bino’s at it and saw that it was the Purple Finch. I got my camera snapped off a few quick photos then texted dad about it. Just after I texted dad as I was going to try to get some more photos of it it flew away. As I was turning around to watch where it went I saw a medium size gray bird sitting in tree I way about to raise my camera to see what it was when it took off and I saw that it was an adult Northern goshawk. And by the time turned back to look for the Finch it was gone. I walked down in the direction where I had seen it flew but I did not fine it, so I went home.
Later this week dad told me about a Canvasback at the lake I walked down there to look. The lake was partly frozen over but I saw the Canvasback. I took some photos of it then I looked through the gulls, and I found two immature Glaucous gull so I took some photos of them.
Canvasback
Glaucous Gull
It was started snowing today. When I was headed to the park and out on the breakwater in the morning, I saw a loon close to the breakwater in the harbor where I saw it yesterday. I had forgotten about it so I had not brought my camera, though I wished I had.
When I was nearing the battle site bench, I saw a squirrel huddled up in a tree.
When I was at the battle site bench, it had started snowing a bit harder.
When I went out onto the small side trail just before the river, the snow was blowing in so I couldn’t look strait out or I would get a bunch of snow on my face. I saw a few sea gulls out on the water though.
When I was on the trail by the river, I saw a few ducks and mergansers.
When I was by the foot bridge, I saw a swan and a few mergansers nearly underneath the bridge. When I went out onto the bridge, I saw about eight swans and a bunch of mergansers around them. I also saw a few ducks and one sea gull.
Why was the loon still there?
Why were there so many sea gulls by the swans?
Was the squirrel cold?
This morning Grandpa and I went up Indian river hunting.
We left shortly after the sun came up.
There was snow coming down Gavan hill a little ways.
We walked up the trail it was a bit ice in place especially on the boards. We walked and got off the trail a bit before one of the big bridges, we walked back up the valley to some open timber.
We walked up through the valley in the open timber looking for deer.
I saw quite a few fresh deer tracks in the dirt but I did not ever see one.
Today when I went down to the park for the second time, it was still cloudy and raining a little bit.
When I was out on the breakwater, I saw a couple of sea gulls and a eagle on the poles.
When I was in the park at one of the opening areas, I could see some of the sun through a small hole in the clouds as it was setting.
When I was at the battle site bench, I saw some sea gulls out on the beach, and I also saw raven land by some seaweed near me.
When I was near the trail by the river, I saw some more sea gulls and a few ducks.
When I was on the trail by the river, I saw a bunch of mergansers and ducks near the grass on the other side of the river.
When I was at the end of the trail by the river, I heard a Pacific Wren somewhere in the bushes.
When I was on my way back, it was sill raining, but it was still fairly light out.
Why did the raven land by the seaweed?
Why do the sea gulls and eagles perch on those poles?
Why were there a bunch of mergansers on the other side of the river?
Today when I went down to the park for the second time, it was sunny and windy but not too cold.
When I was going out on the break water, there was a raven on the boardwalk, it flew off as I walked past. When I was at the end of the break water, it was colder and windier and I saw a few sea gulls and shorebirds on Sage rock.
Just after I got off the break water, I saw some Harlequins in the water by where they catch the fish.
When I was out at the battle site bench, it was really windy and I was glad I had decided to ware my coat.
When I was on the trail by the river, I saw some ducks and mergansers on the other side of the river.
I decided to go out on the foot bridge and when I looked down the river, I saw a few eagles, a kingfisher and a merganser. When I looked up the river, I saw two dippers and two ducks. I also saw a white cat right by the river walking up the bank. I went to get a better look, but by the time I got there it was gone.
Why was it windier out at the battle site bench?
Why was the cat by the river?
Where did the cat come from?
Yesterday morning I got to dad’s a little earlier then normal so that grandpa and I could go hunting.
It was quite windy when I left for dad’s place I walked over there and got there about 8:20 or so am. We made our lunch and dad got the rifle out. I got my pack packed and we left.
We walked down to Indian river trail head and when we got there I unstrapped the from my backpack and put the clip in it then put the rifle over my shoulder and walked up the trail.
As we got close to one of the big bridges we went off the trail and took a side trail back into a valley with open timber. just as we got into the I looked and saw a small crowbar poked in a tree so I walked over and pulled it out and put it in grandpas pack. We walked up the valley slowly looking for deer. It was snowing a little on and off but nothing stuck, it was very windy up there and the strong winds were swirling in the valley where we so I did not have much hope for seeing a deer but I continued to carefully watch for any deer that we might see. As we walked up the valley I heard something that sounded a little bit like a deer call I stopped and looked around and saw that it was just a tree moving in the wind.
We were getting far enough up the valley that I was starting to head down to cross and dry river bed and head back on the other side when I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw a deer trotting away across the dry river bed. I stood atop the river bank and raised my rifle. I looked through the scope at the deer as it went behind a tree. It had slowed to a walk by the time it had gone behind the tree I waited with the rifle raised for a few seconds then I lowered it. I watched and a few seconds later I saw the deer walk out from behind the tree a little further up then I expected but I raised the rifle aimed at the deer it was about 75 to 110 yards away and quartering away quite a bit but I aimed right behind the front shoulder and shot. I saw the deer jump a little and went up under a clump of trees a bit. I could see that one of its legs was broken. I quickly ejected a shell and put another one in the chamber and aimed again as it was limping away towards the woods. I aimed for the neck this time and missed. Grandpa asked if I had hit it and I said yes, and it was a big buck and that it had went into the woods, he said to go slow and keep an eye out for it. I slowly walked across the river bed and walked up to where I had seen the deer after I had hit it and looked for blood on the rocks but I did not see any. I slowly went over to the edge of the forest to look for its tracks, by that time grandpa was just about to me. I looked and saw some fresh dirt that had been kicked up I went up the hill and saw a few more places where it had been kicked up. I was slowly moving looking for tracks when grandpa called me back to show me some blood on the ground. I turned and went back to look he said all this was blood, he was using an end of a stick and was moving it in a circle. Since I am a little red-green color blind it was hard for me to see blood on a greenish background but I eventually saw something that looked wet and saw that it was a bit different shade from its background and I saw that it was blood. We made our way looking for blood. It was quite hard for me to see the blood so grandpa told me to keep an eye out for the deer and he would look for the blood. We walked a bit further then ran into some big old trees that had fallen over. Grandpa figured the deer would go around so while he was looking for blood I went and got up to where I could see over the logs and when I did I saw the deer sitting on the other side with only its head and part of its neck exposed. I told grandpa I found it and when I said that the deer turned and looked at me. I raised the rifle and took a head shot. the deer went forward and I told grandpa I got it. I climbed over the the logs and got to the deer. When grandpa got over there we dragged it to a spot that was a bit more flat and open where it would be easier to gut it. It turned out I had hit it in the rump the first time we would not be sure how bad it was until we got it homed and skinned. Once we got it gutted we started packing it out. I tried to carry it out all by my self but it was just a bit to heave so grandpa and I look turns caring it.
Once we got home I got it skinned and saw that I had only got one hind quarter and the other one was fine which was a good thing.
Two days ago, Dad called me when he was done with work and asked if I wanted to go watch the whales. It was sunny out and I didn’t really have anything better to do, so I decided to go.
I was ready and outside a few minutes later, it was a bit windy so I went and stood in the sun to wait for dad.
When I was going to get in, Dad asked me if I really wanted to go without my coat and told me that it was windy out at Whale Park, so I went back inside and got my coat.
When we got to the park, there were quite a few cars there and a few people in the viewing shelter. As we parked, a few other people, who I’m guessing just got there, ran over to the viewing shelter.
We didn’t go to the viewing shelter, instead, we walked down the path a little ways and down multiple sets of stairs. When we got to the end of the stairs, I went out on the platform and dad went down to check out the rocks below, then called me down.
There were a few other people already there on the other side of the rocks out of sight. There were also a group of Sea lions out a little ways that stayed pretty much in the same area throughout the two hours that we were there, though a few did move away now and then.
It was windy, but the sun kept me warm. Dad claimed the only good sitting spot where we were in my opinion and I was stuck sort of leaning on a sloped smooth part of the rock or crouching down, though he moved later and I claimed his spot.
While we were watching the whales, some split off from the main group and headed our way. Two times, they breached, the first time I was looking away, so didn’t get a picture and only saw the middle and end of it. The second time I was looking, but I still didn’t get a picture, though dad did. Those whales went out of sight.
The group that was in sight, but farther out did some bubble net feeding, which I got a few photos of, and they lunged a few times, most of which I was looking the the other direction because it looked like the gulls were gathering.
There were two boats out on the water as well, which hung around where the bubble net feeding whales were.
A few of the whales that had gone out of sight came back towards the group that hadn’t gone out of sight. I don’t know if all of them had rejoined by the time we left.
While we were out there, I also saw some loons and got a few photos of them.
By the time we left, it had been about two hours and the whales had gone out pretty far.
I forgot to mention that the sun reflecting off the water was bright, and was most of the time in the corner of my vision if I didn’t block it with my hands, so my eyes hurt from squinting and I wished I’d brought some sunglasses. Someone who was there did. They left before we did.
