Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
This beautiful bird has been hanging out at my house the past few weeks. He’s super skiddish and I had to take this hiding thru my window. My cat’s always spot him first. I see them freeze while looking up, then I see him. He sweeps his head side to side to look at us. But if I move too fast to get my camera he spooks and flies away.
It took quite a lot of discussion with my birding friends to figure out what he is. He has been identified as a Red Tail Hawk.
He is gorgeous!
You have to be careful drving up to Hurricane Ridge in the spring as tons of baby fawns are running across the road where it’s easier to walk. Their mamas are always herding them back to tasty morsels to eat.
Miss Bon Bon (my siberian) LOVES the snow. She doesn’t get to see it often here in Sequim. But it seems like every two years she get a week to exercise her full Siberian-ness. (I know my high school english teacher is rolling in her grave at my grammar…sorry Mrs. Persons.)
We had a VERY white Christmas here this year with 10 inches initially and about two more this week with temperatures in the teens–and THAT is very unusual.
This is one of many Horse ranches in Sequim Valley.
I am so lucky to have this as a view out my window every day. We still run to the window yelling BALDY/BALDY every time we see them.
On our trip to Tanzania we saw this group of lions who suddenly snapped their head to the left in unison. They saw lunch in the form of a Thompson’s Gazelle!
There is a large RAFT of sea otters in Morro Bay. (Did you know a group of otters is called a raft? Great name!)
If you go in January or February you can see all the new kits.