It actually snowed here again this morning…well ‘sleeted’ at least…Mt. Woodside was very white when the clouds cleared…then it actually got quite nice and sunny although very cool…it was during that ‘sunny’ phase we set out for our walk…what I hadn’t taken into account was the ‘wall of black’ coming around the hillside to the west…
at this spot it was so darn cold and windy I felt sure we were going to get soaked any minute…
but instead it skirted the estuary and headed up the valley…
The weather didn’t deter the birds as there was lots of activity…the Bushtits were back at their nest….there were Ruby Crowned Kinglets from one end of the park to the other…
some American Goldfinch at the viewing platform – there had been House Finch over at the log bay and I’ve seen Purple Finch today too. The Black Cap Chickadees were at their nesting site as well…unfortunately my Canon Power shot Camera, that I love, is in the process of dying and today, 4 times out of 5, just would not ‘zoom’…so very little in the way of bird pictures…maddening especially since there were a lot of Hummingbirds down there today too. An Osprey was flying around, a pair of Canada Geese flew past (first I’ve seen for a bit), a Great Blue Heron flew over…..
I did want to throw this in, just so you can see how ‘green’ everything is becoming…
yesterday I mentioned the robins on the lawn that is being worked on…this is just a very small sample…150 have been counted at one point…
This Band-Tail Pigeon was seen this morning, actually there were two…while the sky was blue and the camera deemed to co-operate by working.
and now, for fun, I’m going to toss this picture in…
This picture was taken on April 19th, 2007 – note the water level…this would be considered more ‘normal’ for this time of the year…. With this continuing cold weather, snow levels haven’t even begun to melt…they just keep getting deeper!
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