Today after a little more housekeepingI got out to catch some of the partly-sunny cool day birding. First stop was my third try for the Harris’s sparrow at the 11th Street Bridge, with success this time. Several birders were leaving as I arrived, and Bryan Hansen got there right after I parked. We got on Read More…
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Clark’s Creek Park on a Break from GSH
About 11 AM today Kay shooed my out of her hospital room so she could visit with Patty, and I stopped for a walk around the Clark’s Creek and DeCoursey Parks area. It was generally dry and some passerines were calling, I saw Common and Hooded mergansers in the pond by the GBH rookery, and Read More…
Too Cold to Paint So Birding it Is
Today on waking up and seeing that it was not raining and that weather reports promised a temperature over 50 degrees by afternoon I decided to try to put 2 coats of paint on Brett’s doors. When I got to Brett’s it was 46-47F and I had read you can paint in temps of 50F Read More…
AM Birding Today
This morning I got out for a couple hours of birding before focusing on getting materials for our “shed raising” tomorrow at Brett’s. First stop was “the Gog” where I was not able to find the Lapland longspur found last evening by Michael Charest. On my first loop around the middle pond, on the far Read More…
Scouting for WOS Trip to Skagit/Samish Flats
Ken and I agreed to lead a trip for the WOS convention on Saturday to the Skagit and Samish flats, and today we headed north to check scout the area. We have both birded this area many times in the winter, but are relatively unfamiliar with migration birding here. Overall we had a great day. Read More…
Paradise Hike
Today Alan and I headed for Mt. Rainier to hike the Skyline Trail out of Paradise while Kay and Jean stayed behind for some Mother – Daughter time. We got there about 8 AM and headed up the east side of the trail. It was remarkably alive with birds, with flocks of DEJU and sparrows. Read More…
Chambers Bay Beach Access for Sanderling
Today, finally, after hoping for the last 2 days that the Sanderlings, found by Bruce Labar and since seen by seemingly all the other Pierce County birders, I got down to Chambers Bay to try for them. I was also hoping the Black turnstone Bruce had might still be around, but since others had not Read More…
Pectoral Sandpiper at Levy Pond
I happened to check my email around noon and saw a very recent (hourly) eBird needs alert for Pierce County that Christopher Clark had seen a Pectoral sandpiper at Levy Pond. Kay and I headed right there, and the PESA was feeding near two Long-billed dowitchers on the sand bar. It moved around a from Read More…
Black Phoebe While Shorebirding
Today I made three quick stops, primarily looking for share birds while Kay was at her book club. At the Freeman Road mitigation the water is nearly dried up and not many birds left. At Levy Pond the mud was good, the SBDO remained, but otherwise just the usual peeps. At 56th St. Stormwater Ponds Read More…
Chamber’s Bay Beach Access
Yesterday Bruce found a Ruddy turnstone at Chamber’s Bay beach access so this morning I waited until low tide in late AM and headed over. From the bridge area I scanned north, and saw what looked like a pale below dowitcher. I headed straight that way, and in the first larger cove-like area with green Read More…