It's been rather nice the last few days, sunny and cold enough to keep the small amount of snow from melting. I'm wearing the giant, calf length coat, two pairs of gloves and a scarf across my face for the commute. It takes me a bit of time to acclimate.
If I remember right the snow fell on Wednesday and Thursday. The bayliner's fuel lines froze on Friday, that skiff seems to succumb every winter, fortunately the aluminum skiff remains functional. It took a good 10 minutes to untie the boat on Friday because of frozen lines. Swan lake was still open on Friday (finally got a good look at the Canvasback), by Sunday morning only a bit of open water remained. There was a bit of thin ice at the harbor mouth on Saturday.
The full moon was pretty spectacular, both at night rising over the Sisters or Verstovia (depending on my location) and setting in the morning. It set over what I assume is a peak on the north end of Kruzof, or maybe toward Partofshikof island. I thought that the moon seemed a bit larger than normal that morning, presumably it looked on the cinematic side because of not only being full, but also at perigee (221,560 miles).
The full moon was pretty spectacular, both at night rising over the Sisters or Verstovia (depending on my location) and setting in the morning. It set over what I assume is a peak on the north end of Kruzof, or maybe toward Partofshikof island. I thought that the moon seemed a bit larger than normal that morning, presumably it looked on the cinematic side because of not only being full, but also at perigee (221,560 miles).
The fungi are frozen. The only creature I collected this week was a Xylaria from a Sitka alder. Haven't dissected it yet for spores, some seem flat and divided like hypoxylon others were round like something different.
This week I left the house a bit earlier and the slightly darker conditions added a bit of a challenge to identifying gulls, so I had to make use of the gull spp category.
| Common Loon | 12/8/08 8am | 12/9/08 8am | 12/9/08 2:30pm | 12/10/08 8am | 12/11/08 8am | 12/12/08 8am | 12/13/08 8:30am | 12/14/08 10:00am |
| Common Loon | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Double Crested Cormorant | 5 | |||||||
| Pelagic Cormorant | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Great Blue Heron | 1 | |||||||
| Mallards | 3 | 4 | ||||||
| Harlequin | 1 | |||||||
| Long-tailed Duck | 2 | |||||||
| Surf Scoter | 25 | 16 | 29 | 12 | 13 | |||
| Barrow's Goldeneye | 18 | 27 | 18 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 18 | |
| Bufflehead | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| Common Merganser | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| Glaucous-winged Gull | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Gull spp | 1 | 11 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Bald Eagle | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Raven | 2 |
The feeder remains popular with nuthatches, juncos and chickadees. Stood out near it for awhile Sunday afternoon trying to get a photo of a junco. No luck, but did notice that the chickadees taking off from the deck rail sound alot like a cat purring. I assume that it is there wings that are responsible for the sound.
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