We headed to Damon Point to
see the Snowy Owls. Oh, wait. That was late winter. We are now in late summer.
Let's say that we were after the Brown Pelicans instead. Before I get to what I
can remember, I will give a quick list of everything else. This will give me
more time to forget everything and annoy you. We saw Cormorants and Crows.
Oops. I meant to say Crows and Cormorants. We saw Glaucous-winged some of them
Gulls. I mean Gulls, some of them Glaucous-winged. We added whatever Loon is
supposed to be short for, a bunch of generic Ducks (I might have a Surf Scoter,
Wigeons, and Shovelers on my list), a couple ? Sandpipers, a couple ?
Sandpipers (different listing), Double-crested Cormorant, a different type of
whatever Loon is supposed to be short for (species was not written), SaSps
(Savannah Sparrows), GB Herons, Cormorants relisted, and ? + Barn Swallows. Now
to the parts that I should have forgotten by now. We started with 10 Deer
(That's right, I can actually read my number), but they don't count. We saw
them from the car before we even reached Damon Point. We saw at least 2 types
of Terns. One was our familiar Caspian Terns. The other is an unknown species
that I hope has a better picture (probably mariganally so) than description on
my paper. We also saw much larger numbers of Pelicans today. If my notes are
correct, they were BPlcns. More than likely, I got some BPlcn shots worthy of
uploading to Flickr in the next year or two when I finally catch up to today.
Grays Harbor National
Wildlife Refuge was next. On second thought, Bowerman Airport was next. We had
to walk along a service road to reach the trailhead. While there we saw
horrible scribbles. Sorry, it's my notes again. Let's try this again. We saw
Barn Swallows, Starlings, Savannah Sparrows, Gulls, Black-crapped Chickadees -
I mean Black-capped Chickadees, Crows, Deer, Steller's Jays, Song Sparrows, a
Black-headed Grosbeak, and a ton of specks - I mean distant unidentified
Sandpipers. It looks like I tried to note some of the flowers on this one. We
can record Asters/Daisies and Dandelions.
Next up was Bottle Beach. I
have some good news and some bad news for this one. The good news: This is a
new page of notes, and it's far more readable. The bad news: Outside of some
weed whacking, it was a quiet walk. We saw Dragonflies, Asters/Daisies,
Dandelions, Garter Snakes, a Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Butterflies, Gulls, and
Caterpillars.
We made one final stop at
Westport. There were actually two state parks that we visited. I only wrote
that we went to Westport (even with notes I'm bad at this). We saw a lot of
Gulls, Cormorants (it looks like they nest out there), more Brown Pelicans,
Crows, Western Sandpipers, a lot of Least Sandpipers, Rock Pigeons, at least
one Caspian Tern, and Dragonflies. Flowers included Clovers and Dandelions.
Perhaps I should screw up my
notes more often. It seems like I have more interesting things to say that way.
NOTE: My pictures revealed something that my notes didn't. I missed reporting a Harrier at Damon Point.
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