It has been an interesting weekend…
yesterday, took this shot of the estuary, mainly to show the snow line on those distance mountains – the first snow of the season…
little did I know that this morning I’d be taking pictures of the first snow of the season on the lower, local mountains!
it was even almost half way down Mt. Woodside! Seems early for that!
water levels have dropped a bit from their high level on Friday….so lots of bird activity…Bald Eagles above with lots of gulls in the background…
this picture sort of sums it up, Mallards, Great Blue Heron and gulls and eagles…there was even a Northern Harrier being chased by a Raven (not in the picture)
an assortment of eagles in the ‘eagle’ trees too – still so many leaves on the trees that they are hard to see…
another heron and some more mallards, there were also American Wigeon and quite a few Common Merganser out there today..
some Canada Geese decided to fly past as well.
in the afternoon we drove down to one of the fish hatcheries…
lots of Salmon – my husband informs me most of these are Chinook..
spotted an American Dipper…
a few gull around, including this which I think is a first winter Glaucous-wing Gull. It was sticking close to an adult so I suspect the adult was one of it’s parents.
later in the afternoon we took another walk at the estuary…most of the eagles had left the flats and were riding the thermals over head.
seemed to be a lot of activity in the bushes….including Song Sparrow…
and the Pacific Choke Cherry fruit continues to attract…here a Spotted Towhee, but there were also lots of Robins and Varied Thrush enjoying the fruit.
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