the water continues to rise, slower now as there is a vaster area to fill, also there have been some pretty cool evenings of late although today and tomorrow that won't be the case as temperatures are rising to way above average....
No, what is strange is that about 4 days ago my husband was over at the park and noticed a swan of some sort way out.... due to the distance and the fact he was having to fend off a number of off leash dogs he couldn't make out what kind of swan or even get a photo of it. Yesterday I managed to spot it way over near where the arm of the Chehalis river joins the estuary....
got this very distant photo and then drastically cropped it and by the head and bill shape it is a Trumpeter Swan. Why is it here by itself, or could there possibly be a pair that has decided to nest here??? I guess only time will answer that question.
Now to add to the confusion, when my husband walked over to the park this morning he could still see the trumpeter way over in the same area, but then he spotted this...
out off of the area of the log bay....this also spotted him and came in towards him so he got a good look...
this is definitely a Mute Swan. You will recall that a pair were seen out there early last fall, probably the same pair that have been seen in the slough at Deroche off and on all winter...Mute Swan are not native to our area although I understand there is a small population of them becoming established. It is too bad, in a way, that as of Friday we will be away from here for a month or so, it would be interesting to see how this swan thing plays out.
It wasn't just swans that my husband spotted recently at the park...
this Coyote was over there the other day. We know, of course that there are several packs of coyote in the area and with the rising water their area to roam gets condensed.
The sunshine of the last few days is certainly making the....
Tree Swallows happy, there have been lots of them flying over head chirping away...spotted this guy yesterday letting those over head know that this spot was his!
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