The fog cleared early today and the sun shone for what they say will be the last time for a few days…finally rain is in the forecast!
It was kind of ironic today as one of the daily newspapers had an excellent article on this area and the importance of protecting it and not disturbing the eagles….the ironic part was that today there were virtually no eagles visible…
and this is why….there were people out on the flats at the tower that was erected a number of years ago. Presumably an eagle cam was being set up to show the eagles feeding on the flats (see a few in the background), so I guess today’s disturbance was justified….
with no eagles to concentrate on…
we’ll look at the Salmon as there were quite a few in the area off of the log bay..
but I think the most notable thing today were the numbers of American Robins in the area – the above one, with it’s spots, still being quite young.
Most of the robins are concentrating on the fruits of the Pacific Choke Cherry trees….I’m pretty sure I heard a Varied Thrush today as well, but haven’t been able to actually spot one yet.
I’m going to post one more shot of the human activity out on the flats, to show all the Northwestern Crows that have been around the last few days…obviously disturbed at this point, they are all the black dots in the sky..
there weren’t nearly as many ducks and gulls today either, but this Glaucous-wing Gull had stood fast and was busy having a salmon meal.
Yellow-rump Warblers are still around…along with lots of Chickadees…
Numbers of Dark-eyed Junco are also increasing…
and on the way home spotted this Northern Flicker….it is a hybrid as it has the red ‘moustache’ of the Red-shafted and the red ‘V’ on the nape of the Yellow-shafted….
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