26 November 04

A Day of Birds and Salmon

Rock wren barn owl burrowing owl bus driver who got out of the bus (to the airport) to see the burrowing owls glaucous-winged gull thousands of chinook salmon breaking themselves apart to get upstream merlin nailing a white-throated swift over the rapids and hauling it off for lunch, when most people were there to see the salmon ferruginous hawk ALBINO red-tailed hawk (this was the magic bird today) Lewis’s woodpecker western bluebird phainopepla FERRUGINOUS HAWK sandhill crane greater yellowlegs lesser yellowlegs snow goose eastern phoebe sunset behind Mt. Diablo sandhill cranes white-fronted geese, v’s in opposite directions veggie lasagne and some central heating, washed down with a pinot gris far above our means donated by someone who’s moving back east…

Posted by at 06:08 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. WOW! (Especially the albino red-tailed hawk.) I can see why you resorted to a list format: pretty overwhelming.

    — Dave    27. November 2004, 03:53    Link
  2. Thank you. I’m going through a hard time. This list was restorative to me in a way nothing else has been lately. Thank you so much.

    — mahala    27. November 2004, 16:13    Link
  3. Yes WOW! and what a lovely day. I just l-u-r-v those kind of days. Especially when others get interested – it adds yet another dimension. What a great list. Oh I do need some new sightings at the moment. I was woken by a very strange irregular squawking last night – an owl, probably a tawny, but it had something different to say. And my mother thirty miles away also reported strange tawny owl squawking last night.

    — Coup de Vent    30. November 2004, 11:48    Link

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