A Day in Port Townsend

With another sunny day and school back-in-session, we decided that it would be a good day to go to Ft Flagler and Port Townsend. I hoped that we would see some Harlequin Ducks and various Grebes, but, as it turned out, we saw extraordinarily large flocks of Glaucous-Winged Gulls like this one.

There were so many gulls that the cormorants usually seen on this perch had gathered offshore.

Though I assumed that the Harlequin Ducks had probably not arrived to their wintering grounds yet, I’m not sure we would have seen them even if the had returned because this Bald Eagle

was patrolling the shoreline.

In fact, the only shorebirds we saw at Flagler was a very small flock of Sanderlings.

Perhaps my favorite shot of the day was this one of yet another Yellowlegs

taken at the lake in Port Townsend.

Things didn’t get better in town where found a lot of our favorite shops, including our favorite restaurant, were closed on Wednesday. Our consolation was that we discovered a restaurant we liked nearly as much at half the price. Life doesn’t get much better than a great meal after a long walk on the beach.

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