The following post was written on April 20 in honor of Earth Day. -fg
In honor of Earth Day, we held our annual Earth Day Yoga Retreat this past weekend. We were fortunate enough to have our friend, Brent Matsuda, as our resident biologist. He drives over from Vancover, B.C. every year for our Earth Day Yoga Retreat event and shares his wonderful knowledge of wildlife with us.
Brent compiled this list of birds we saw (or heard, such as our elusive pheasant) over the Earth Day 2014 weekend. The pristine environment here provides a wealth of wildlife!
Bald Eagle1
Bufflehead1
Canada Goose1
Caspian Tern1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee2
Common Loon1
Cormorant (species unknown)1
Dunlin1
Eurasian Collared-Dove2
Godwit (species to be confirmed)3
Golden-crowned Sparrow1,2
Great Blue Heron1
Greater Scaup1
Gull (species to be confirmed)1,3
Horned Grebe1
Killdeer1
Mallard1
Marbled Murrelet1
Northwestern Crow1,2,3
Orange-crowned Warbler2
Peregrine Falcon1
Pied-billed Grebe1
Pigeon Guillemot1
Ring-necked Pheasant1
Song Sparrow1
Surf Scoter1
Yellow-rumped Warbler2
1Damon/Protection Point (stormy day)
2Seen/heard around Little Renaissance
3Pacific Ocean Beach (sunny day)
What I emphasize for the Earth Day Retreat is the theme of Evolution. The evolution of each individual person represents a lifelong process of developing character, traits, kindness, mindfulness, fine tuning, and becoming the best we can be. The yoga sessions over this past weekend included poses imitating roundness of earth, as well as the half moon and crescent moon, trees, reptiles, birds, mammals, and finally humans such as Warriors and Archers.
You guys are bird brains (compliment, ask a crow), I love it. Very impressive list and great pictures. It feels good to be subscriber to the FGB again!
I believe the godwit to be the marbled godwit. Nice work, Frannie!
Rick