On Monday, Feb 20, 2017, I began my birding in the yard when I noticed quite a number of birds there.  The only bird I photographed was this Slate-colored Dark-eyed junco.

I next made a little birding excursion with a friend.  As usual, we began at March Point but the significant occurrence there was that we encountered about 30-40 Dunlin on the rocks at a little past high tide.  I hadn’t seen Dunlin there for several weeks until this day.

We continued on to Pleasant Ridge where I took these photos of a female Ruby-crowned kinglet in the bushes beside a road.

We rounded out our excursion with a tour of Fir Island where I photographed this Great Blue heron.