LATELY BIRDS

/ janpriddyoregon

A deer came up our path and pooped just outside our gate.

Those little round brownish pellets in the middle of this picture are deer poop.

The nearest nesting pair of black oystercatchers were out on the sand with their youngster.

The bird at left is an adult (one of the parents. The one in the middle is the other parent. The one at right, with black shading on the end of her beak, is the “baby” already as big as her parents.

The little shorebirds are a mystery. After all these years, I can’t be certain what they are, Least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)? Or something else?

And then the new driftwood growing up out of the sand. Usually the ocean plows them right up in a high tide, but there have been such drift logs that lasted a year or more because they were well planted.

When Portland, on the east side of the coast range, experiences seasonal hot weather, we often have morning fog. It’s been foggy the last few days when we went out for our walk, clearing once the sun is high enough to burn off the mists.

The eagle flew over our heads on its way to what Gary calls the Bird Snag on the headland north of us.

Sometimes a crow perches here a couple of hundred feet above us, but this is definitely an eagle perch.
We usually walk 3-4 miles, but the other day we walked past Arcadia, more than three miles to the north of us, better than a six mile round trip according to my old running measures. And then home.

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  2. Music to find peace by as you walk upon the shore
    from Chad and Jeremy, of course.
    “A Summer Song,” “Distant Shores,” and “Zanzibar Sunset”
    ±nothing better—ever.
    Thank you very much.
    R.I.P. Chad Stuart

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    • There were no eagles when we moved here in 1979. (No ravens either.) Bald eagles have been in slow, steady recovery throughout the country since the banning of DDT in 1972 after Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring (1962) focused attention for the damage it was doing to birdlife. Such wonderful news!

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