This afternoon, a neighbor from across the road, told us about a long-billed dowitcher that had been in their neighbor's backyard. This neighbor with the backyard, has a grassy, open lawn, and the edge of it is the bluff extending down to Cook Inlet. The dowitcher was in the backyard poking its bill up and down "sewing machine" style, as if it were walking around in a wetlands. This happened about a week ago, so this dowitcher might be a late-stayer, as I would imagine most shorebirds have gone south, at least as far as Homer.
We have seen some waterfowl out on the Kenai River Flats this past week, as there were some extremely high tides and the flats have been flooded several times. We did not take the time to look at them with binoculars.
In our yard today, we were once again visited by a spruce grouse, who made his/her way down our boardwalk and then flew to a spruce tree and sat there long enough for me to see him/her, after I returned home.
Freezing almost every night, and possible snow in the forecast. We heard that there are "millions" of swans on the upper Moose River.
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