Posted on October 24, 2022
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My brother and his wife recently visited and we drove to the top of Mt. Walker hoping to get a good view of the area. There were partly cloudy skies. We were fortunate that the cloud cover was high enough to get a decent… Continue Reading “Canada Jays”
Category: puppylife, wildlifeTags: bird eating from hand, camp robbers, canada jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, gray jay, grey jay, perisoreus canadensis, Steller's Jay, whiskey jack, wildlife
Posted on December 9, 2021
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I recently took a friend to Fort Mose Historic State Park and came upon a palm warbler feeding among the mangroves in the saltmarsh. We saw other birds like osprey, great blue herons, and little blue herons. The palm warbler was my best photographic… Continue Reading “Palm Warbler”
Posted on June 16, 2021
by Linda
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Yesterday, I discovered a nest of blue-gray gnatcatchers. I have been hearing the squeaky sounds of blue-gray gnatcatchers a lot lately but they are hard to see. They are tiny birds that flit among the leafy branches looking for insects. I saw an adult… Continue Reading “Blue-gray Gnatcatchers”
Posted on September 6, 2020
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As we described in earlier posts, I raised a baby blue jay, Topaz, last spring and released it in May. We went across country for the summer and came back mid-August. About a week after we came home, we saw the blue jay about… Continue Reading “Local Wildlife Update”
Posted on July 8, 2020
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We left Port Townsend this morning and were sad to leave the Olympic Peninsula. We love the area and it is close to Jason for visiting. This morning, while still camped at Point Hudson, I noticed some river otters in the water. I grabbed… Continue Reading “Otters to Sheep”
Category: travel, wildlifeTags: bighorn sheep in gingko petrified forest state park, bighorn sheep lamb in ginkgo petrified forest state park, Gingko Petrified Forest, juvenile river otter, lamb, landrtravels, Lontra canadensis, ovis canadensis, Port Townsend, river otter family, river otter in puget sound, wildlife
Posted on June 1, 2019
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We had a great time kayaking the Silver River and had more to share than we could in the last post. In this post, I want to share some of the pictures of other wildlife we saw. My favorite experience on the trip was… Continue Reading “More Pictures from the Silver River”
Category: UncategorizedTags: aix sponsa, alligator, alligator mississippensis, american alligator, anhinga, anhinga anhinga, animal behavior, baby common gallinule, bird behavior, egretta caerulea, fledglings, Florida, flying insect on flower, fort king paddling trail in silver springs state park, gallinula galeata, juvenile double-crested cormorant, juvenile wood duck, little blue heron on silver river, nesting birds, phalacrocorax autitus, silver river, silver springs state park, wildlife, wood duck
Posted on May 19, 2019
by Linda
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The baby Red-bellied Woodpeckers can be seen in the nest cavity. Regis got some video today. If you listen carefully, you can hear at least one of them. We can see two babies in the video. Very cute!! You can see that the parents… Continue Reading “Baby Woodpeckers”
Category: UncategorizedTags: baby birds, baby birds in a nest cavity being fed by parents, baby Red-bellied woodpeckers, bird behavior, canon, canonusa, feeding baby birds, nest cavity, nesting birds, nestlings, red-bellied woodpeckers feeding young, wildlife