Today was the first time in exactly 6 months since we have been out birding, and due to terrible MiFi location, it took far longer to get these images up and edited, so I will post them for now with hopes I will give a real update on our current status.
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While walking back from a small hike, Pauline and I heard a group of American Robins crying in alert, the last time we heard this commotion was when we saw the Barred Owl, so we fallowed the noise and sure enough, we once again spotted the Barred Owl.
He was at first just above our heads, we walked right underneath him without seeing him until he took off into the thicker woods, once he did that, the Robins all started to bombard him, it appeared that the owl was even struck a few times, after a minute or two, the owl flew to another tree, and escaped the wraith of the Robins.
We slowly walked to where we could get a good view, and over a 15 minute time frame, we was able to get about 10′ from the tree the owl was in, he was about 12′ high in the tree, lucky for us, the iPhone took a few decent shots.
We plan to start walking in the area we have seen the owl around 8pm to see if we can get some better pictures of it.
We had a really long day, so I really do not have much to say, but at least we got to see our first Barred Owl.
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We thought we visited Possession Point State Park but as it turns out, we was at the Possession Point County Park. The state park was about 1/2 miles down the road.
Ok, whatever, not like I ever use a GPS or read road signs or anything.
We took a small hike, about 3/4 of a mile, but it was all +/- 300′ and honestly we didn’t see too much to make it worth the time and effort. We did see many American Robins, a few Dark-eyed Juncos and a bagillion Tent Worms which are everywhere, we had so many crawling on us, we got tired of picking them off.
We hiked to the peak and found a nice place to rest, but again, nothing really to see but tree’s and we found a water fountain of all things on the peak but of course, it didn’t work.
We walked around the dock and saw 3 Great Blue Herons and as well as a Osprey and heard a few Rufous Hummingbirds and 4 or 5 rabbits and some deer.
We drove back to Freeland, WA and stopped at the local food truck of Bubba’s Burgers and enjoyed eating them, not the best I have ever had, but I would go back.
We will go to Possession Point State Park soon, the County Park was ok, but honestly, it needed a lot of care to make it look more presentable and less neglected.
~May 28, 2014
We stopped at Fort Ebey State Park on the way home from Deception Pass State Park. We was planning to spend a few hours there, but we had stayed longer at Deception Pass then we had planned and decided to just take a hour or so and see what it has to offer and plan a day in the very near future and just take our time.
From what we saw, we will for sure be coming back, they have 14+ miles of trails as well as other interesting things to see.