Yesterday, it was a nice sunny day…
a perfect morning for putting the canoe in the water…
so here are some pictures of the park from a totally different perspective! This is where the path that we normally walk is…somewhere down there..
instead of walking the forbidden path…we canoed it…
there is the viewing platform….
you’ve never seen it like this before!
even the deck of it is still under water…
continuing on along the foreshore…
I don’t know what this Bald Eagle was after, but there were a lot of very unhappy Red-wing Blackbirds after it and they finally drove it off. Lot’s of bird sounds the entire way but very little visible…a few of the nesting boxes on the pilings had Tree Swallow families in them and Bullock’s Orioles and Spotted Sandpipers were calling…
coming to the log bay now…
there is the bench…
from there we turned back…
and headed out to open water – had heard a Loon calling out here but never did spot it…there were 2 Seals out here as well but the pictures I got weren’t worth keeping…
started to head up towards one arm of the Harrison…
there was another Bald Eagle perched over here…could hear Osprey and there were lots of Swallows flying around..
turned into a quiet backwater…kind of a weird sensation to be canoeing over the tops of bushes and grass…could hear a family of ducks in here but never did spot them…and all those shrubs were full of Yellow Warblers as well as other unidentified species.
in the middle of all this water there was a log floating that was covered in vegetation, including the native For-get-me-not flowers…
headed up one arm of the Chehalis River for a ways…have never been on the Chehalis before when there has been this much water…
One more look as we turned back and headed towards home. With so much water there was very little visible in the way of birds…no need for them to be out in the open when they can stick to sheltered areas…also all those bushes standing in water are full of little bugs so lots of food. Spotted Sandpipers flew back and forth across the river, saw a few Robins, heard lots of Swainson’s Thrush, saw a pair of Chickadees, heard a Woodpecker, probably a Hairy…but that was about it…a lovely trip just the same.
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