Wldlife of Edmonds, WA. 2014

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Bill Anderson

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In many Asian cultures, Friday (4/4/14) was one of the three unluckiest days of the year due to the proliferation of the number 4. Coming up next will be 4/14/14 and 4/24/14. Although everyone else in my house is Asian, their bad luck did not rub off onto me as I made some good catches at the fish hatchery.

A red-breasted sapsucker was tapping away on a tree by Willow Creek. There may have been a second sapsucker in the tree as well, but I was not fast enough to photograph it.
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At least two golden-crowned kinglets were busy going their non-stop kinglet thing by the creek. Both of our local kinglet species are my nemesis birds.
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The kinglet's orange crown is barely visible in these two photos. A perfect kinglet shot would show the orange crown quite vividly. Like its cousin the ruby-crowned kinglet, the golden-crowned only raises its crown when it is agitated, usually by the presence of a rival kinglet.
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Bill Anderson

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The Edmonds Birdmuda Triangle has seen lots of eagles this winter and spring. Here are some from Wednesday (4/2/14).

Second year(?) juvie perching on the tree at the corner of Edmonds St. and Sunset Ave.
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It watched a train pass by.......
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then took off.
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A sub-adult perched in an evergreen on Hanna Park Rd.
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One of the Hutt Park pair perched on their family tree in Hutt Park.
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Bill Anderson

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Meadowdale Park

Wednesday (4/2/14) I went to Maplewood Park in the hopes of hearing/seeing the resident barred owl pair.
http://www.edmondswa.gov/government...rvices/edmonds-city-parks/maplewood-park.html

I struck out on the owls, but I caught a pair of flickers on a spar.
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Farther down the spar, a female pileated woodpecker was pounding away. Look at the size of the wood chips she dislodged.
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She looks as though she found a larva to eat.
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While the Pacific wren is common to my area, I seldom get a shot of one.
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squirl033

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ya know, i have yet to get a decent shot of a pileated woodpecker? not for want of looking, but for some reason, i just never seem to find 'em!
 

Terry O

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That series, particularly the ones you took yesterday in the marsh adjacent to the hatchery, is nothing short of astounding, Bill! I was there - it was dark mostly, and the trees and branches with their new leaves were a tangle. Even seeing the red-breasted sapsucker(s), let alone photographing one, was amazing. You are the man!!
 

Joemeche

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Speaking of Pileated Woodpeckers, here's a digiscoped shot from about 200' away and across a gorge. This particular nest is just below an active Osprey nest.

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Bill Anderson

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That series, particularly the ones you took yesterday in the marsh adjacent to the hatchery, is nothing short of astounding, Bill! I was there - it was dark mostly, and the trees and branches with their new leaves were a tangle. Even seeing the red-breasted sapsucker(s), let alone photographing one, was amazing. You are the man!!

I paid the price when I ventured down the creek. I was trying to get close to the marsh to look for marsh wrens when one leg sunk down to nearly my knee. Luckily I was wearing hiking boots or I probably would have lost a shoe in the mud.
 

Bill Anderson

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Some non-eagle shots from Saturday (4/5/14). Many of the marine birds have started to show their colorful breeding plumage. We have a small window to photograph some of them before they depart for their summer nesting grounds.

This horned grebe is starting to transition.
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The pigeon guillemot is one of the earliest to change color and remains in the area year around.
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A red-necked grebe is finally living up to its name.
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A double-crested cormorant is starting to develop "eyebrows".
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With its feathers resembling scales, a cormorant may be the closest we come to seeing a winged dragon.
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squirl033

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good shots, Bill! i haven't seen a red-necked grebe before! at least, if i have, i didn't recognize it as such...
 

Bill Anderson

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A few from Tuesday (4/8/14).

A red-winged backbird and a spotted towhee provided entertainment at the #3 viewing platform of the marsh.
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A Steller's jay did the same in my backyard.
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Bill Anderson

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Thursday (4/10/14) I caught two horned grebes in mating plumage diving for minnows at Olympic Beach as I was walking out to the fishing pier to look for the orcas.
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When sun, wind, and water conditions are just right, you can see the grebes swimming underwater. They are quite fast.
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Two double-crested cormorants were engaged in a serious struggle for a fish below the fishing pier.
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One resorted to a choke hold, but it could not get the other one to cough up the fish.
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Bill Anderson

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Friday (4/11/14) afternoon I photographed two native Douglas's squirrels in South County Park, located on Olympic View Drive in Edmonds.

After downloading the photos on my computer, I noticed that one of the squirrels appeared to have ticks in its left ear. I have never encountered ticks in this area and I have never seen them on the invasive eastern gray squirrels.

First squirrel. No apparent ticks.
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Second squirrel.
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There appear to be three ticks in its left ear.
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