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Daily Bucket: Friday Double Sequence: Wood Duck, unlikely encounter. Least Sandpiper. [1]
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Date: 2023-09-08
I have always thought of Wood Ducks as elegant ducks eating mostly tubers. I have been so wrong!
1. Wood Duck location — just across from the Union Bay Natural Area, my main birding location 2. Least Sandpiper — part of the Union Bay Natural Area
What does the Wood Duck see down there?
You’ve got to be pulling my leg (I thought as I watched the Wood Duck pulling at the frog’s leg).
What is the Wood Duck going to do with that frog? I can’t imagine that it could swallow it.
After the juvenile, apparently bored, left the frog on the shore, an adult female tried her luck. She vigorously shook it over and over, but also couldn’t get the frog down.
And now for my second sequence — an unusual bird at our usual birding area, the Least Sandpiper.
I had been seeing Spotted Sandpipers around the area the last few days. Yesterday, I took a peek at a newly muddy area due to the water level receding. Two little birds were busily pecking at the mud. I had to look it up and check with the Merlin app to make sure that it was a Least Sandpiper.
I wonder if the sandpiper sees itself in the reflection?
It was very busy searching for food.
It captured something long and worm-like.
The sandpipers enjoyed both deeper water and muddy shores.
A pair of Least Sandpipers searching for food.
Now as a special bonus — Your Tax Dollars At Work. Practice makes perfect. The Coast Guard in action.
3. Location of Coast Guard helicopter to boat practice on Puget Sound off Discovery Park only a couple of miles from where I grew up in Magnolia.
They make it look easy but can you imagine the skill and practice it takes to hone this skill?
Now it’s your turn to make this a rich experience for everyone. Add a comment, photo or dance a jig like FF did once. It’s all for fun and education.
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