One more post from last Sunday's outing. [The other two were Always Looks Different: Turnagain Arm and McHugh Creek] We stopped at Potter Marsh on the way home [as we did two weeks before.]
The only birds we saw this time - and this is not a complaint - were a pair of hairy woodpeckers and a flock of bohemian waxwings.
The woodpeckers were fun. Maybe it's my early introduction to Woody as a kid. Surely the red patch helps, and the tapping noise. And one of my favorite posts, which still gets hits from weird folks like me, is Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Brain Damage?
The waxwings too, but they're more common, and we'd recently had a very close view as they came to feast on the Mt. Ash berries in the tree in front of our house. Here their spectacular colors aren't visible.
This time without such an obvious single food outlet as the Mt. Ash, they were scattered in pairs and small groups around the marsh.
Here's a typical view of the marsh, though the summer tourists don't get to see it with the ice.
The boardwalk has signs prohibiting, among other things, dogs. And as we got back to our car, we saw this one waiting patiently in the car for it's servants.
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