In the midst of a heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest, we decided to spend the day at Ft. Flagler and Port Townsend. Though it was sunny when we left Tacoma, it was completely socked in when we arrived at the beach at Ft. Flagler and were greeted by this White-Crowned Sparrow.
Personally, I thought the fog added to this shot of a Cormorant atop the two piers.
I began to realize the fog was going to be a problem when I tried to get some shots of these Sanderlings and realized that despite being surprisingly close that there wasn’t enough contrast for my camera to focus on them.
I must have ended up with 20 blurry shots, and that’s almost unheard of with my Canon EOS 1D.
If it hadn’t been for the bright white tail, I might not have recognized these birds as Brant.
While photographing the Brant flock, they suddenly all took flight, and I accused Leslie of startling them.
It wasn’t until we started back and Leslie pointed out this large bird on the top of a sign that I realized that they had taken flight because a Bald Eagle had flown by.
They must be even better than I am at recognizing a Bald Eagle by its silhouette.
Even the brilliantly colored male Harlequin duck looked drab on this morning, though it would have been a great shot in sunlight.
This White-Crowned Sparrow seemed almost as happy as I was when the fun finally began to burn off the fog nearly two hours later as we headed to Port Townsend.
