The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us.
A few mornings past, when we had one of those rare nice mornings, birds started showing up en-mass at our beach. They were coming from all over the Straits, headed toward us. Que the Alfred Hitchcock theme.
The tide was approaching full, and the gulls who arrived first commandeered the best seats. The water just off these rocks is only about 3' or 4' deep at this stage of the tide.
Still more coming, Red Breasted Mergansers, a few Harlequin ducks and I think a couple of late Surf Scoters. The RBM's lead the charge for the diving birds and got down to serious fishing. More birds arriving, and even more steaming at flank speed straight at us.
Then everybody left, What the....
Oh, a bully, breaking up the party. Red in tooth and claw, sure, but he's just messing with folks now.
Nice rock you punks got there, be a shame if anything happened to it.
And there he sat, Master of the Point, di**head.
There has been some fine aurora the last couple of nights, I got a couple of poor shots. The excuse is I am still learning the buttons. The reason is that I went to bed too early.
Gonna' steal some photo's and get back to you on that subject.
What's going on in your backyard? I hear it's already Spring in places.