As you can tell by the snow in the background of image 1, this isn’t a photo from this week. But I was lucky to get both of these visitors to the same tree. I thought they made a nice couple. (although I didn’t care for the way a couple of them killed a birch tree in my front yard years ago, by girding the tree with their holes.
When I visited Haines, Alaska a couple times, I stayed in a small cabin close to the ferry terminal. As I was out for an after-dinner walk, I got this image of an old truck with one of the Alaska ferries in the distance. This is one of the smaller ferries that usually runs between towns, not the larger vessels that make the run from Bellingham, Washington.
The cabin had a number of grouse living in the yard. They were quite tame and I think were looking for handouts. I gave them a copy of my itinerary, but they didn’t seem interested in that type of handout.
Or, maybe it’s a Hairy Woodpecker. Still nice to have it visit my feeder.
it is a hard life trying to find adequate food in the high country in winter. I shared some organic grains with the gray jay (even though it’s against the rules). That attracted the attention of the raven, but it was much too shy/wary to come so close.
Another sunny day at the beach in the middle of winter along the Washington coast. There’s nothing quite as nice as a winter beach walk in the sun.
