Today I met Ken and Bruce and we headed north to meet Blair Bernson in Marysville and go see the Blue Jay that has been hanging out at a feeder in Bow. The fellow who owns and stocks the feeders was very obliging and welcoming, and pointed out the jay under one set of his Read More…
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…
Painted Bunting!
This morning Bryan Hansen and I headed north leaving the Poodle Dog at 5:15 and got to the La Connor Boy’s and Girl’s Club at about 7:20, just as it was getting light. We easily found the tennis courts, and thanks to the PABU-> sign easily found the two Redwood or Sequoia trees to look Read More…
A Weather Break in the Afternoon
Today was a rainy morning, but when I figured out the TV/WIFI problem before the Comncast guy was due at 2 PM and so I took advantage to try again for the Redpoll at the Gog. No luck at all, really pretty quiet there, but on the way back I stopped at the gull bathing Read More…
Local Rarity Chases Today
Today Ken came over to chase the Glaucous Gull and Common Redpoll that had been seen near the Puyallup River recently. I made a really quick stop for the gull at the 11th Street Bridge without luck before meeting Ken and Bryan at the Gog. We chased two good sized flocks of PISI around for Read More…
Two More FOY and One County Lifer Today
This morning I headed out just after daylight in hopes of seeing the Snow Bunting located yesterday at Brown’s Point. On arrival Bruce, Peter and a Seattle birder were standing about 20′ from the SNBU near a blue trash can just off the beach. It was another super-easy Pierce lifer. Bruce agreed to go over Read More…
Rough-legged Hawk at Gog-li-hi-ti
Late in the day yesterday Michael found a Rough-legged hawk at Gog-li-hi-ti and this AM Heather and Bruce relocated it. Bruce texted and I broke away from my pledge to help Kay pack up the kitchen stuff prior to our renovations that now start this Saturday. I dashed quickly and as I walked in Bruce Read More…
Neah Bay Day 2
Today after a really nice continental breakfast at The Inn at Neah Bay, Ken and I headed out birding. First we did a quick drive through the Raven’s Corner area looking for TRKI on the wires, and a brief cruise of town seeing if anything jumped out. It didn’t. Next we returned for a few Read More…
Neah Bay Day 1
Ken and I met at his house today at 6 AM, and headed for Neah Bay while snow fell fairly heavily at his place. We drove through off and on snow until past Port Angeles, where there was about 2-4 inches of accumulated fresh snow. Once past there it quickly dropped off and there has Read More…