To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Pygmy-Owl on Marys Peak
I discovered that the foggy/cloudy conditions in the valley today extended upwards only about 2,500 feet. Above that level (where I was, on Mary's Peak in Benton County) you could see the ocean to the west and the Cascade peaks to the east. But the beautiful weather did not produce many birds up there. Chestnut-backed Chickadees got agitated when I started imitating the call of a Pygmy-Owl, and then the "real deal" showed up, too. There were also Golden-crowned Kinglets and a Hairy Woodpecker, but otherwise it was very quiet.
I discovered that the foggy/cloudy conditions in the valley today extended upwards only about 2,500 feet. Above that level (where I was, on Mary's Peak in Benton County) you could see the ocean to the west and the Cascade peaks to the east. But the beautiful weather did not produce many birds up there. Chestnut-backed Chickadees got agitated when I started imitating the call of a Pygmy-Owl, and then the "real deal" showed up, too. There were also Golden-crowned Kinglets and a Hairy Woodpecker, but otherwise it was very quiet.
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