On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Yesterday a little before 5pm the tide was just coming off its peak and I decided to see what shorebirds might be present. There was a substantial amount of herring spawn at the park last month, and the there remains a substantial amounts of rotting herring eggs and seaweed that have been pushed up along … Read more
Connor, Rowan and I took a walk around the park this evening not too long after high tide. Connor and Rowan had taken the path through the woods to skip ahead of me while I completed the circuit aound the shoreline from the river mouth to the Visitor’s Center. I was walking past the first … Read more
Took a couple of trips to Totem Park, one yesterday and one today. Yesterday I saw 3 Northern Pintails, 6 smaller dabblers (I thought Green-winged Teal at the time, though they may have been Northern Shovelers), at least 4 Caspian Terns (including a hatch-year bird), many Thayer’s Gulls, Mew Gulls, a handful of Herring Gulls, … Read more