Last week in LC
Two weekends ago we headed back out to Lincoln City for the first time since the wind storm and Echo Mountain fire not knowing what to expect. Amazingly our house had no damage despite a billion small branches covering every square inch of our property. Some of the alders were blown completely leaf-less making it look wintery and weird for late summer. A lot of our neighbors were not as lucky with huge trees down all over and one neighbor's shed had blown out the back of their yard onto a sidewalk (below).
We fit in some birding between all the cleaning up, like an afternoon visit to the Salishan Nature Trail. We walked out to the beach where a lot of birds were relatively close in for once.
Red-throated Loon Pacific LoonWe had some good shorebirds on the beach like a couple of Black-bellied Plovers and a Baird's Sandpiper. During the week I visited the Salmon River Estuary a couple more times hoping for more shorebirds though there are many other distractions there.
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We fit in some birding between all the cleaning up, like an afternoon visit to the Salishan Nature Trail. We walked out to the beach where a lot of birds were relatively close in for once.
Red-throated Loon Pacific LoonWe had some good shorebirds on the beach like a couple of Black-bellied Plovers and a Baird's Sandpiper. During the week I visited the Salmon River Estuary a couple more times hoping for more shorebirds though there are many other distractions there.
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