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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...

Got sumthin on your beak... gross! ;)

Lousy pics but finally snapped one of the warblers that hide in the brush. Pretty sure this is a Wilson's.

Some feeder shots this AM.

Stumbled onto this must see stop in Victoria for dino-nerds. Dino Lab Inc. https://share.google/luOoancHJTnaR6aY6

PNW sunsets galore. Sunset in Victoria last night.

A few more from our Victoria trip.