Month: January 2023

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Trip

Hanford Airplane Ride

8-22-2007

The green circles are crops that are irrigated.
Columbia River
Dark area burned.
Dark areas burned.
Mountain burned while I was there.
Columbia River.
Ripples caused by the massive glacier runoff that was 1000 feet deep here.
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Daily Blog

January 2023

January 22, 2022  Beautiful day, we saw four dolphins, Marain went with me.

Snowy on the left and right, Ibis in the middle at dawn.
Snowy with fish for breakfast.
Brown Pelican
Ibis
Great Blue Heron
Two Storks
Little Blue
Palm nuts
Juvenile Ibis
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Cormorant
Snowy
Cormorants
Marian

January 19, 2023  Finally a warm morning, it has been 40 degrees in the mornings but today was 60 degrees, much more conducive to paddling! Cloudy at first but full sunshine later. 

Lots of Brown Pelican photos today.
Young Cormorant.
Cormorant with breakfast!
Fish starting down.
Egret
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Snowy
Male Mallard Duck
Red Tailed Hawk
Kingfisher
Anhinga drying his feathers
Cormorant
Sanderling
Osprey standing in the water, they do that to clean their claws.

January 9, 2023  Another beautiful day! Upper 50’s, lower 70’s, full sunshine, light breeze.

Marian took this photo of me this morning!
More beautiful White Pelicans today!
Marian in her kayak.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Juvenile Night Heron
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Osprey
Great Blue Heron
Juvenile Great Blue Heron
Cormorant
Male Mallard Duck
Sandpiper
Egret
Little Green Heron

January 6, 2023   Beautiful weather!! Upper 50’s, lower 60’s, full sunshine, light breeze.

The white Pelicans were here! They do not soar and come down fast to catch fish, the go in a group and dip their beaks at the same time, in harmony!
Our usual Brown Pelican
I saw at least a dozen dolphin, all over the place, one almost knocked me over with his wake!
Great Blue Heron stalking his prey along the shore.
Juvenile Little Blue - it takes three years for them to get their blue feather in.
Adult Little Blue.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned in deep shadow.
Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Sandpiper
Stork flying by.
Osprey flying by.
Anhinga in the mangroves.
Young male Anhinga.
Cormorant
Cormorant checking to see if I have fish for him, I never do, but I think some people do feed them.
Ducks
You never know what you are going to find paddling up Bear Creek.
Turkey Vulture
Little Green
Downey Woodpecker
Kingfisher
Snowy
Juvenile Ibis
Adult Ibis