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  1. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    Thanks JWN....It's their ability to accelerate and stop on a sixpence that jaw drops! I never ceased to marvel at their manoeuvrability, especially when I saw 2 individuals (believed to be Rufous and Anna's) "toying" with a soaring Cooper's Hawk...It was made to look most pedestrian by...
  2. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    Glad you liked the shots Chris....and quite right a photographer should never leave home with just the one card! :t: Am still jet-lagged to the point of "double-taking" every time I pass a "hanging basket". :-O
  3. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    The concluding part to this report. During the trip I'd spent countless hours attempting to image the magenta iridescence on the male Anna's Hummingbird throat. Without the benefit of access to a regular feeder, I had to track and find the subject bird, this in itself took many an hour, then...
  4. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    The next 3 days were kinda flat due to the high temperatures, however I'd planned my last trip to Washington Park which lies in NW Portland for Sunday 21st. the day before departure. An early rise had me on station in the park at 8am using the bus/max and legs....for the final ascent, which...
  5. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    As we left our watering hole, then crossing the road to access the ''campus'' with it's c100' Douglas Fir, redwood and Oak sentinels, an Anna's Hummer was seen nectaring on one of the town's hanging baskets. How blissfully serene it was in the shade of these towering trees beneath which lay a...
  6. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    Thanks guys...glad it's shaping up :t: In stark contrast to yesterdays aerial display (not unlike Wednesday's absence). Today Friday 12th again at low tide...Just Common Murres in the air, with no sign of TP on high, or on the cliff outside their burrows!!! Whether this represented an overnight...
  7. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    An early start on Thursday Aug.11th had me heading North along the beach to Ecola Creek, as the first leg of the loop, returning back South to Haystack for the low tide mark at c2pm. En route heading North, I encountered Western and Californian Gulls, Double-crested and Pelagic Cormorants...
  8. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    Thanks Chris....:t:
  9. KenM

    Land of the Tufted Puffin, 6th Aug-22nd, 2016.

    It's been three years, since we last visited Portland, Oregon where my daughter lives, thus a trip was almost overdue with BA to Seattle (9hrs.10 mins.), then connecting with Alaska Airlines for the final 35 minute transfer South to Portland. Upon arriving we found it un-seasonally cool and...
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