Friday, July 7, 2017

June-July sightings.

 Lewis' woodpecker at nest hole, 6/30.
First Rufous hummer of the year at my feeder, 7/3.

Various sightings June-July 2017, trying to keep up.

 Black-crowned night heron 6/27. Coyote Cr. beaver dam.
 Yellow-breasted Chat 6/27.
 Warbling vireo singing on nest 6/28.
Bewick's wren 6/28.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, July 2016.

 Map of Anglesey, with Holyhead Island and South Stack off the west coast, and Langefni in the center. Where I'm headed to see Charles Tunnicliffe's bird studies.
 Typical seacoast strata at Holyhead.
 An unknown bird's nest. Anyone know?
 Bronze Age(?) settlement, Holyhead.
Penros Feilw Standing Stones, with Holyhead Mtn, 7/12. Possible burial site.

South Stack Seabird colony, Holyhead, Wales, July 2016

 Guillemots on a ledge, 7/12.
 Razorbills.
Only a few Atlantic Puffins left, post breeding season.
 Mostly Guillemots on one section of cliff, South Stack. The sound so earthy, it seemed unearthly!
 Razorbill in flight.
Guillemot, Puffin, and Razorbill in underwater flight, painted by Philip Snow at the South Stack
RSPB Visitors Center.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Holyhead Wales, July 2016

 First campsite in Wales, the ferry terminal at Holyhead, 7/11.(Later heard it is the most dangerous place in Wales. Something to do with the Irish Mafia? using this place as a transit hub?) I slept well.
 Met my first local.
 Sheep land, en route to South Stack.
South Stack, a famous seabird breeding site on Holyhead Island.