With predictions of 60-degrees and much sun, I planned to go visit the
Stanwood Snowy Owl site on Thur. It stayed cloudy and not too warm in
Seattle, until after I finally left to head up there, at around 2:45!
The weather sure does vary - up near Stanwood, it was sunny, but
breezy and became quite chilly, as it usually seems to up there in the
late afternoon/early evening. I dug down in the pile of 'layers' (of
clothing) in my car and pulled out a few things to cover up the t-
shirt I had hoped would suffice.

Scant birdage - 'just' the regulars - Red-tailed Hawks, N. Harriers,
Bald Eagles (lots out by the shore), a GBH or two, Song and Fox
Sparrows, Marsh Wrens, Red-winged Blackbirds, Western Meadowlarks
(singing a the sun was going down), American Robins, duck spp, gull
spp, a crow or two, thousands of Snow Geese (and maybe a Ross' Goose
or so) and, lastly but not leastly, 2 Snowy Owls. No Rough-legged
Hawks or Short-eared Owls seen either at Eide Rd or in the Thomle field.

As usual, I was transfixed by both my scope image of the one dike owl
(much better than my photos through the scope!), the 'wild waves' of
Snow Geese and the colors and designs in the sky as daytime changed
over to evening. Mmmmm - I'm going to miss these special moments when
there are no more white sentinels popping up onto the dike... Nature
therapy at it's finest.

To share in some of the beauty of that evening, see my photos on
Flickr: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjyxv8SC

Cheers!


Barb Deihl

North Matthews Beach - NE Seattle

barbdeihl at comcast.net
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