Cloudy with rain during the morning hours. Showers with brief sun breaks this afternoon. Temperatures to 50F. Windy.
Today’s rain made it easy to stay inside through the first part of the day. It’s getting to be the time of year when I find it harder to keep up, so I have plenty to work on.
I did spend a little time out this afternoon, fortunately avoiding the showers.
The wind was blowing on shore at Magic Island. The tide was coming up, and the connection between Magic Island and the main shoreline was already starting to be covered.
I hoped to find a Wandering Tattler. The rocky shoreline south of Magic Island seems to be one of the more reliable spots they stop in the spring.
No luck on that front today. Based on ebird reports I saw later, I might have seen more if I had gone to the main beach. A Whimbrel and two Ruddy Turnstones were among the several shorebirds seen there.
Walking down Biorka Street this evening, a call caught my attention. I looked up to see a bird in the top of a pine tree. It sounded like a Red-winged Blackbird. I was walking to the movie theater, so didn’t have my camera or binoculars with me. It was difficult for me to see well enough to confirm its identity visually, but I did the best I could with my cell phone. It wasn’t great, but was good enough.
Walking home at nearly 10pm, there was still light in the sky. Summer is coming, at least in terms of daylight, if not weather.
The paper had an article on April’s weather. With snow often down on the mountains, I would have guessed April was a little cooler than normal. However, it was reported the temperature was a bit above normal. It wasn’t so much a result of daily highs (which weren’t so much above normal), but rather the overnight lows which were above normal. April is still a time of frost when skies are clear. With all the clouds, we didn’t see temperatures dropping so much overnight at sea level (even though it was cool enough for snow down to tree line and below).
Despite yesterday’s efforts running around, my legs weren’t sore today. My knees were, however. Hopefully it’s a minor and short-lived thing rather than a sign of bigger things.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
