Sunday, April 29, 2012

Images from Grays Harbor Field Trip!

Brown Pelicans over Grays Harbor, with the Olympic Mountains as backdrop.
BIOL 444 students admiring a flock of Brown Pelicans over Grays Harbor from the Westport Jetty.

Portraits of Wandering Tattlers. Note short yellow legs and barred belly and flanks.

Mr. White-Crowned Sparrow confronting danger and ready to kick some rump on his home turf...
Brownheaded Cowbird

Marsh Wren gathering nesting material from a cat-tail




The striking wing patterns of the Black Turnstone in flight





Joel Williams doing some extreme birding, looking for the Wandering Tattlers

Ribes (currant) in bloom on the Westport Jetty






Peer TA Annica Carlson, giving an impromptu lesson on bird internal anatomy.

One of the many thousands of Dunlin that pass through Grays Harbor every year on their way from South America to the Arctic and back again.

Pelagic Cormorant. Note white rump patch.

A regal-looking Savannah Sparrow.

Female Surf Scoter

Male Surf Scoter

Nape of the Male Surf Scoter

American Robin

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Black Turnstone

Bufflehead male and female

Caspian Tern hangout.

Common Loon in alternate plumage.

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