Three things for Monday
28 Apr 2025 07:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhiker.... Because Sunday ended up quite busy.
1. Linnea's race yesterday didn't go as well as possible. The wind picked up a lot just as they were starting and they're a light boat (could probably race in a lightweight category if anyone was still doing that, sight) so it's harder for them. They came in 4th, about a second off of third. So yeah. Still, not bad. I just hope the coach doesn't decide to make boat changes based on that: we've already bought (refundable) tix to go to Nationals, as have most of the other parents.
2. Saturday late afternoon we drove down to Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. Heard a few new to use birds but did not spot them. We walked all the way out of the end of the boardwalk, it's such a pretty walk, the to the river, then back. In a treed area on a boardwalk over wetlands/a stream (as opposed to tidelands) there was a group of 6 birders, with probably a collective quarter of a million in gear. We couldn't pass so we stopped and after a while one of the birders who was taking video called us over to check out what they were looking at: a rufous hummingbird mama on her nest. Totally awesome. Then yesterday afternoon we went up to the Skagit Valley to check out tulips. Things were a bit bloomed out, grr, but it was still gorgeous. Weather was great. We took my MIL, and I think she had a good time. I'll probably be posting photos on Flickr, I'll link when I do.
3. There is a natural area near us. It's about an hour there and back, walking, and I'd done it a few times, but dh hadn't. We went yesterday in the morning before Linnea's race, which was cool. Nothing really exciting just a very calm, very undeveloped pond with a petering out path around it, LOL, but a nice quiet walk. The road to there is now closed and they've put up gates, so we can walk it more easily.
1. Linnea's race yesterday didn't go as well as possible. The wind picked up a lot just as they were starting and they're a light boat (could probably race in a lightweight category if anyone was still doing that, sight) so it's harder for them. They came in 4th, about a second off of third. So yeah. Still, not bad. I just hope the coach doesn't decide to make boat changes based on that: we've already bought (refundable) tix to go to Nationals, as have most of the other parents.
2. Saturday late afternoon we drove down to Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. Heard a few new to use birds but did not spot them. We walked all the way out of the end of the boardwalk, it's such a pretty walk, the to the river, then back. In a treed area on a boardwalk over wetlands/a stream (as opposed to tidelands) there was a group of 6 birders, with probably a collective quarter of a million in gear. We couldn't pass so we stopped and after a while one of the birders who was taking video called us over to check out what they were looking at: a rufous hummingbird mama on her nest. Totally awesome. Then yesterday afternoon we went up to the Skagit Valley to check out tulips. Things were a bit bloomed out, grr, but it was still gorgeous. Weather was great. We took my MIL, and I think she had a good time. I'll probably be posting photos on Flickr, I'll link when I do.
3. There is a natural area near us. It's about an hour there and back, walking, and I'd done it a few times, but dh hadn't. We went yesterday in the morning before Linnea's race, which was cool. Nothing really exciting just a very calm, very undeveloped pond with a petering out path around it, LOL, but a nice quiet walk. The road to there is now closed and they've put up gates, so we can walk it more easily.
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