June 4, 2009

  • just gorgeous

    We have had the most incredible weather.

    And nowhere to go due to no car.  So we've hung at the river with a vengeance.  WE head there at about 9, and come back for lunch.  Take a wee down time, and back there until dinner.

    I could live this way all summer. 

    But I know better then to plan for that. 

    Anyhow each day on the way to the river I walk under this beauty.


    And we head to this hole.

     This is KK's favorite ocupation at the river floating on the sail board.  I picked this up a couple falls ago on Freecyle knowing it would be perfect for the river.  It is.  I even play on it sometimes.  And tip myself off of it accidentally.  LOL

    Jamari sunbathing.   Yeah that's the bridge to the main highway.  Its actually funny cause you can't see us playing down here.  I know I've looked from up there.  But its where the best hole is this summer.  We've swam here other summers, but last summer there wasn't a hole there at all.  And this summer is the best, because due to the river knocking down some brush, we can walk straight to it, rather then wading up the river for a 1/2 mile like we did previous summers. 

    Zeria is still my biggest swimmer.  She LOOOOVES the water.  But Jeremiah is offering her some competition.

    We also met another swimmer.  A bird that is apparently hard to spot on the Peninsula.  But after hanging in the same place for several days running, we even found their nest, and have gotten to see peaks of the babies.  The parents have no fear of us. 

    This is the American Dipper.  I had to spend sometime with my bird book and online before I truely identified it.  And then I was psyched to realize there are only two KNOWN nests on the Peninsula.  I emailed the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society my pictures, and he emailed me right back this afternoon and asked permission to use my pictures.  *too cool*

    They are really hard to get pictures of due to how gray they are, they just blend into the river.

    See the parent peaking out of the nest.  There nests are apparently unusual due to the sideways nest hole.  Very cool  I might sit under the bridge tomorrow on my chair to see if I can snag pictures of the babies.  We shall see.

    This afternoon we got to see one of them swim.  They are the ONLY American song bird that swims.  They dive in the river and swim using there wings.  Very fun to watch.

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