Two days after I took this, the lil birds fledged..
Last Free Lunch…
Category: Birds
Wildlife Wednesday- Vigilant beauty
This baldy was following us from tree to tree while we boated around Lake Crescent.
Busy Barn Swallow Hub…
No feed me!
Every year the barn swallows nest in this lil barn birdhouse (perfect home right?) There are often three chicks. One usually blocks out the hole for feeding most of the day. A second will finally get his head out enough to get fed to live and the third often parishes. They wait with their mouths closed. When I see their mouths open I know their parent has just passed overhead and will come in for a landing.
FEED me!
Note the bug in the air between the Dad and the chickā¦
Trumpeter Swans annual visit
Hoards of trumpeter swans come each spring to eat bugs out of the newly cut fields. They fly into the fields from ???? just at sunrise. You have to catch them then because after they land they hang out in muddy fields eating all day.
Protection Island–Eagle
There are eagles galore on Protection Island just off Sequim. I was shooting off a very bouncy boat. No people are allowed on the island. That is actually Mt Baker in the background that looks like a cloud.