{"id":1949,"date":"2022-05-31T02:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:52:54","slug":"monday-may-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/monday-may-30-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, May 30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good day, but frustrating…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temp in the 40s, overcast with a few rays of sunshine late in the day, Winds light, East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Pine Siskins continue to visit my feeder and there is another one over at the High School Spruces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Bramblings have been seen for two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my usual morning route, I stopped at the Airport Ponds and there was the Tufted Duck! This is where he truly belongs. I should have named these ponds Tufted Duck Ponds, because I have seen more here than anywhere else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tufted Duck, Airport Ponds, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then decided to go up to where the other guys had the Wandering Tattler two days ago in hopes of adding it to my trip list. I planned to walk the northwest shoreline of Clam Lagoon. I got there and started walking. After about a third of a mile, I found it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wandering Tattler, Clam Lagoon, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wandering Tattler, Clam Lagoon, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wandering Tattler, Clam Lagoon, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time that I have had both Tattler species on the same trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I continued my way back down the lagoon, a Marbled Murrelet came closer than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marbled Murrelet, Clam Lagoon, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And here is the Annual Mandatory Eagle Head Shot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bald Eagle, Seawall, May 30, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The other guys went out on a boat trip today and had all of the auklets and a bunch of other stuff. I met them upon their return and told them about the Tufted Duck. Although not a lifer for any of them, it was an Alaska bird for them. So we went over and got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They then went home to lunch and I headed back up to Clam Lagoon (I had only done the west shore this morning).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I got to the south shore, I spied the godwit flock in the same place as yesterday. I did a quick count and it was the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continued around the lagoon, eventually to Candlestick Bridge, turned around and proceeded on the loop back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped a few hundred yards north of the bridge and scanned the flats. There, I saw a flock of seven godwits (which had not been there a few minutes before when I scanned it on the way to the bridge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first thought was “Where are your buddies?” I scanned for more, but could not find them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More interesting is that two of these godwits were noticeable smaller than the others!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hudsonian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were closer to the west shore and the lagoon channels made it impossible for me to get close from this side and the heat waves were too bad for a photo, so I chose to race around to the other side and approach them from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got back around to the South Lookout in about ten minutes. Not bad without breaking an axle! The road around Clam Lagoon is not in very good shape…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I scanned, the flock of 35 godwits was right where I saw them an hour earlier and the two Black-tailed were back in the southwest corner feeding where they originally had been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no sign of the seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to walk out the flats anyway, just in case they flew back in. No luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After spending some time there checking the previous flock (and recounting it), I decided to go back around to the east shore again in case the seven had flown down towards Candlestick Bridge and out of sight from where I was now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I waited and waited and scanned and scanned, to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am confident that they were probably two Hudsonian Godwits and five Bar-taileds, but I will never know for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just another “one that got away.” I’ve had a lot of those out here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trip list is 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s list can be seen at https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S111778274<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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