Mid August is here and the juvenile vagrants are starting to show up in Pierce County. Yesterday I got out intending to do the usual Levy Pond, Fife Saddle Creek Oxbow, and 56th St. Stormwater Ponds loop, but got stalled at Levy Pond where I found a Solitary Sandpiper, and wanted to take plenty of Read More…
Category: Pierce County
The Fife Sha-Dax Oxbow is Perfect Mud
Today birders of Pierce, King and likely other counties descended on the Fife Oxbow wetlands off 39t St where the Snowy Egret was relocated and Eastern Kingbird, Black Phoebe, Lesser Yellowlegs and more were found. I worked all day, but after dinner in waning light donned my rubber boots to check out the area. Usually Read More…
Snowy Egret in Pierce Today
Thanks to a call from Bruce Labar I dashed off to see the Snowy Egret he located at the industrial pond on 43rd St in Fife. It was a county first and a WA second bird for me. Nice! Ken dashed over from Green Mountain where he was watching Gray Jays, Diane Y-Q came over Read More…
Sunrise Mt. Rainier Today
Bruce Labar and I birded Sunrise today, going from the parking lot, up the upper trail to Frozen Lake, then the trail to Fremont Lookout, and then back via the trail through the Sunrise campground. Overall a sunny, very warm day with little breeze. Views terrific, birding overall pretty slow. The best birding of the Read More…
How Technology has Changed a Hobby
Talk at Rotary today. Went pretty well I think, and took Kay, Rick and Cindi’s two daughters to Bradley Lake for a short walk after the meeting. Birding really slow on a warm sunny 2 PM walk, but had nice looks at Black-capped chickadees, Red Admiral butterfly, and Canada geese with goslings. Photos by the Read More…
Great Day, Great Birds, Bad Photos at Lake Eleanor Trail
Sunrise Mt. Rainier Today
Today I finally got my first Mt. Rainier hike in, getting to Sunrise about 8 AM and hiking up the top trail to Frozen Lake, going a bit toward Burrows Mountain until snow stopped me, then going about half way to Fremont Lookout until entering a cloud and turning back. Highlights were great looks at Read More…
JBLM Today for NOBO with Ken
Today Ken and I got out in Pierce to look for Northern Bobwhite at the site it has been seen last month. We initially tried to use Google Maps which took us through Roy to a blocked entry onto JBLM, then circled around going in the Roy Gate, past Chamber’s Lake, Left onto East Gate Read More…
Friday at Paradise
Today Ken and I headed to Mt. Rainier. On the way we stopped at Kreger Lake to see if the Sora and American Bittern I heard yesterday were still calling. It was yes on the AMBI and no on the Sora. On the way through Elbe we stopped to add American dipper to Ken’s Pierce Read More…
Willow Flycatcher Today
I worked a half day today, and thought I was supposed to be at our Bonney Lake office. I got there to open Same Day Clinic at about 7:20 AM and while walking in from the parking lot a Willow Flycatcher was calling it’s Fitz-bew call repeatedly from the trees at the side of the Read More…