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PostFri Nov 09, 2018 7:25 am 
we have a swarm of hummingbirds wintering in our yard. making friends with this guy. he has no problem being photographed. photographing him, on the other hand, is a problem...

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PostFri Nov 09, 2018 7:33 am 
extended back yard this summer... this is from the hatchery on reiter road. there where 2 of them in the hatchery ponds. flew away when we walked up. never seen a herron up in a tree before.

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PostFri Nov 09, 2018 8:54 pm 
Cool pic. Great Blue Herons nest pretty high up in trees. Here's a pic of a heron rookery in Marymoor Park in Redmond:

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PostFri Nov 09, 2018 8:55 pm 
I saw two Wilson's Snipes yesterday on the Colockum Ridge golf course south of Quincy

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PostSat Nov 10, 2018 5:39 am 
Did a high tide paddle along river-side Jetty Island in Everett last week and saw 9-12 Great Blue Herons at once in several places as they scattered and regrouped upriver. I know rookeries are usually in fairly tall trees, of which there are none on Jetty Island. I wonder where those rascals go at night? Tom

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PostSat Nov 10, 2018 6:04 pm 
tmatlack wrote:
. . . saw 9-12 Great Blue Herons at once in several places as they scattered and regrouped upriver. I know rookeries are usually in fairly tall trees, of which there are none on Jetty Island. I wonder where those rascals go at night?
Great Blue Herons are typically solitary foragers, occasionally in small groups or 2 or 3. As you know, they nest in larger groups. (A rookery aka heronry can have a couple hundred nests). That you saw 9-12 of them suggests a heronry was nearby. I recall seeing a small heronry a few years ago at Riverview Wildlife Refuge 3-4 miles SE of Jetty Island. I wouldn't be surprised if a heronry exists in the Snohomish River estuary. At night GBHs often sleep in trees.

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PostSun Nov 11, 2018 4:48 pm 
I am used to seeing towhees thrashing about in the leaf litter for food. It was a surprise to see one perched in a backyard apple tree pecking away at an apple still attached to the branch. I had been cutting the apples up and feeding them to deer but will leave some for the towhees now that I know they enjoy them too.

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PostSat Mar 09, 2019 5:16 pm 
It's that time of year again. The brants have stopped in for a little R 'n R. Saw a handful of them at Richmond Beach. I imagine they're down by the Edmonds Ferry area as well. Cute little honkers.

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PostWed May 01, 2019 4:52 pm 
Saw something interesting today at Richmond Beach Park. A crow and what I presume was a small garter snake. Not sure if the crow was just messing with it or trying to acquire a meal, but it didn't seem to have much of a strategy. The snake coiled up and struck repeatedly but missed. All the crow did was walk in circles around the snake. It never zeroed in to attack near the back of the head. Some other people walked by eventually and scared the crow off, then the snake escaped to the bushes.

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PostTue May 07, 2019 3:26 pm 
Finally saw some mallard ducklings, little fluff balls, at Boeing Creek Park a few days ago. Only one pair w/ babies but others should be on display soon.

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PostTue May 07, 2019 6:52 pm 
Saw mergansers at the Issaquah Fish Hatchery yesterday different from the usual Mallards.

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PostThu May 09, 2019 2:08 pm 
2 days in a row I've had some Steller's jays in the backyard doing this pose. I've never seen it before. Any ideas what they are doing?

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PostThu May 09, 2019 4:16 pm 
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PostThu May 09, 2019 4:49 pm 
Anting behavior has two expressions, active and passive. The link describes active anting behavior. The display the jay is showing with feathers splayed out looks more like passive anting behavior. I have seen the passive anting with crows on sunny days adjacent to thatch ant colonies. The wood pile likely has an ant colony somewhere nearby.

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