I'm in the water and talking to Sandra who is on a towel next to Meghan, soaking up the sun...
Look, Sandra, right behind you...
There's a sandpiper going in and out from under that tiny little foot high fir tree...
I wonder if there are good bugs in there...
Wait, maybe she has a nest...
Yep - four beige eggs with mottled brown spots - almost as big as the bird herself...
Right there on our high water line...
Right there where I have cleared the beach of grass and rocks and the water is great for swimming without having to trek 5 minutes down the sand to Grants place...
Where's that bird book...
Spotted Sandpiper - right - 20 days to hatch...
Sometimes lays more than one nest and one of her male playmates will be left to guard a nest...
So maybe she is actually a he - I'll never know :)
Sigh...
After two weeks of trying to stay as far away as possible, she finally stays in the vicinity and if I sit quietly, she will come back to the nest...
But we had to come home...
And they hadn't hatched yet...
Maybe when they hatch, that great big garter snake Sandra found will be waiting greedily for them...
We'll see what next week brings...
Anyway - we had a lot of luck with wildlife this trip...
Horned Grebes doing their daily bathing right out front...
Loons being noisily chased from a select piece of grassy beach by a Merganser duck...
Wonderful time watching a bald eagle while out in the boat (Rose, hope your photos are good, mine are too far away to see clearly)...
The Red Naped Sapsucker found a friend and the two were chasing each other through the trees for a couple of days...
And the usual hummingbirds at the feeder - but only 3 this year...
Oops - don't forget the bears - Al won't - but at least we found that Katie will actually bark at them - we thought she only noticed tennis balls. Although, she did tree one while chasing the ball, and came home without seeing the bear, but John saw it go up the tree. She'll learn, she's new to all this...
later man, jan
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follow up - when we got back there 10 days later, there wasn't even a piece of shell to be found - sigh...
later man, jan
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