with no rain the water levels are way down again but it isn't stopping the Chum Salmon, they have now advanced to the 'first bay'
and what water is in the log bay is just alive with spawning salmon. Of course the salmon just don't attract the eagles. Crows, Raven and Gulls are much in evidence now, especially the gulls....
look out on the flats and at times it will look like there are patches of snow out there....large flocks of resting gulls is what they are....most of them, like the majority of the ones in the above photo are the Glaucous-wing Gulls. Easy to identify as they have absolutely no black on them. Mixed in though you never know what you might spot....
this larger gull with the black wing tips and yellow eye is a Herring Gull. A few of these show up every year, this guy was right in the log bay today, swimming in circles to stir things up.
Another gull that likes to stir things up is the smaller Mew Gull. There are always a number of them around, often in the shallower areas where they will stir up the silt on the bottom with their feet and then do a sort of straight up and straight down dive to pick up what ever they managed to stir up. We are pretty sure there were a couple of much rarer (for here) Bonaparte Gulls down there today, but they flew past and disappeared so no photo...maybe another day.
Other than all those mentioned above it has been pretty quiet in the bushes and along the shore although...
Killdeer have been seen running along the shoreline from time to time.
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