This afternoon we headed over to Harrison Bay for our walk.
It was a dreary day with some light rain from time to time but that is actually good as those sort of days often bring more activity, probably due to lack of human disturbance, which was certainly the case as for the first time since probably last February or so, we had the entire place to ourselves!
Started out by finding this Fox Sparrow. These big chunky sparrows are only found here in winter.
Lots of Dark eyed Junco. This one was eating the seeds of the native Rose Spirea shrub.
A few Spotted Towhee in the blackberries as well
There had to be over a hundred and fifty swans out there today, most way over along the far shore, although some were flying around and this little family was just off the beach.
Movement on a tree trunk turned out to be a Brown Creeper, in fact we saw two of them. These guys drop down to the base of a tree and then work upwards, searching for tiny bugs and insect eggs.
A native Alder tree had a small flock of Pine Siskin in it, busy eating the seeds found in the cones.
Of course there were also eagles, somewhere between 30 & 40 along the shore, but more exciting to see was a large flock, 70 or more, of these Lesser Scaup ducks as this is the first time we’ve seen them this season. There were also a few Bufflehead and Mallards were in small groups along the shore.
The sun may not have been shining but all in all it was a very pleasant walk!
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