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Took some advice from a buddy and played hooky to ignore home projects this morning. He was right that I needed to recharge my batteries. No fish were hooked or seen, but there was one spot that really set off my summer-steel spidey sense like it hasn't in ages. 30 years ago there would've...

Fishless, but nice morning on the crick. One surprise was a small flock of cedar waxwings hanging out on a logjam. Ran into one other fisherman upstream of me, but he took off before I could ask how the fishing was.

Wasn't thinking about McManus (thanks for the reminder) but thats kinda where I was headed with that!

Really good bird morning today. Just missed a Pileated on this snag - dammit! At least Merlin caught it.

Good bird morning here in SWW. One solid new Merlin ID with a band tailed pigeon. And possibly a new raptor. Maaaybe a Cooper's, but the white edge feathers on the tail look weird?

Weird indeed. Seems unlikely something would suppress the total return by roughly an order of magnitude. AND, compress it into a single spike vs something resembling a normal bell curve... Or maybe I spend too much time looking at process control charts. :rolleyes:

Fledgling chickadees, towhees and nuthatches at the feeder this week. Some still dialing in their flight training. Last night a young BC chickadee was coming in hot to the feeder, missed and landed on my wifes head for a second.

^ That'll never work ;)

Seafood freezer section dinner tonight. Balsamic/honey glazed sockeye, mussels, with sautéed wild oyster mushrooms. Salad is simple romaine with pickled red onions, green olives in a balsamic/avocado oil vinagerette.

Copy that. I have near constant inflammation in my hands and back. Nothing debilitating yet, but dont need additional issues from over dependence on ibuprofen. I started drinking nettle tea a while back and it definitely helps. Maybe not as much as 2 ibuprofen, but enough I'm taking it a lot...

No time for mushroom hunting but found this flush of fresh oysters today when clearing some brush.

Haven't seen this little guy before. He was very accommodating by posing for a close-up this morning. Clearly hungry and looking a bit bedraggled (maybe just got in from a long flight). Only guess I have is a Lincoln's Sparrow, but iffy. Most distinctive features I see are the long tail and...

I was waiting for that!

Let the mocking begin! 😉 This fancy bit of red-neck engineering has been a surprisingly effective aid in expanding the Merlin ID range of my cell phone. Just a simple conic section sound collector fabricated from cardboard and (what else) duct tape. I didn't go so far as to do a true...

32 feet per second squared til TTV. For (similar?) comparison, human body terminal velocity is roughly 125 mph (183 fps). Safe bet any release on El Cap is TTV.

Huge respect to those that can do this, but OH ... HELL ... NO!!! Hmm, I think you'd have to take into account windage, elevation, and TTV (Turd Terminal Velocity.) So something like a WWII Norton bombsight might be needed to avoid unpleasant surprises for those on the ground. Since TTV is...

Atlantic salmon! (sorry had to). Not a fly (Diptera) since it looks like more than 2 wings. Guessing some kind of wasp?

If cold killed them it seems like they'd be far worse on the wet side of the Cascades. Makes me wonder if a (relatively) mild climate somehow represses large population swings. Not sure of the correct ecology term, but basically similar to how the arctic selects for high populations of limited...

Thanks. We had a dozen or so BHGBs up briefly about this time last year. They've been back for a few weeks now. Not as many but they are sticking around, so suspect they are nesting nearby. Had to look up the rose-brested GB. Clearly none here out West, but what a beautiful bird. And yeah...