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12/14/23 - Bird Watching at Dungeness DIke We did some bird watching at Dungeness Dike. We saw a few eagles, hawks, a heron and, of course, lots of ducks.	The Dungeness River
The river awash	Gray sky
Two eagles	Two eagles up close
The scene	The marshland
Autumn color	A heron
Ducks	An eagle in flight
A hawk in a tree	An eagle in a tree
Probably a hawk	That hawk again
An eagle in a tree	That eagle again
More ducks	Gray skies bring out the fading color.

Keywords: ducks, dungeness, eagle

12/10/23 - Railroad Bridge Christmas They've been decorating Railroad Bridge in Sequim for Christmas for years now. For years, we have been wanting to see the lights there, but every year we've missed our chance. Christmas season is a busy time of year, so there was always something else to do. This year, we finally made it down to the bridge towards dusk and got to see the illumination. The sky was cloudy and getting darker. It was raining. The Dungeness River was full from the recent and ongoing rain. The lights were beautiful.

	A Christmas eagle


The Dungeness River	The Dungeness River

Keywords: christmas, dungeness, sequim

11/16/23 - Autumn in the Dungeness Highlands We call the Clallam County park area above the Dungeness Spit the Dungeness Highlands or sometimes the Dungeness Headlands. Don't expect us to be consistent. There are some nice hiking paths, and a great place to watch the seasons change.	The scene
Last few leaves	A visitor
Abstract	The field
The path	Some thicket
The path	More thicket
More autumn color	More abstract

Keywords: dungeness

11/15/23 - Playing With the New iPhone These are a few more pictures taken with the new iPhone. It's a pretty good camera. It's not quite good enough to replace our point and shoot with its telephoto lens, but it is getting better.	It does nice things with lens flare.
It has a fairly good telephoto lens.	The software does some nice stuff with contrast.
It also saturates colors.	What you get is very nice.

Keywords: dungeness, software

11/15/23 - Good Day for Hawks at Dungeness Dike It was a good day for hawk spotting on the Dungeness Dike.	Two on a tree
In the air	Again
Late autumn color	Lens flare

Keywords: autumn, dungeness

11/05/23 - Dungeness Dike Dungeness Dike is another great place to watch the changing seasons. The new configuration hasn't been accessible for a full year yet, so we're still getting a sense of it. Meanwhile, we've been seeing a good number of fishermen out for cut-throat trout, something new it seems. They must be in season.	The Dungeness River and a winter sky
The marshy fields	More fields and mountains
Another look	And another
Some fall color	Wetlands and gray skies
An eagle in a tree	Last bit of color
More of the new wetlands	Another view south
The marsh seen with an iPhone	Bright iPhone colors
The iPhone is better at capturing fall colors here.	Another iPhone scene
And another with lots of cloud drama	More color and drama

Keywords: dungeness, eagle, autumn

11/03/23 - Ultra Zoom - iPhone vs Sony We have a new iPhone Pro Max, so we also have a new camera. This model of iPhone has a much more powerful zoom than most smartphone cameras, so we took a couple of pictures with it to compare against those taken by our usual Sony DSC-HX99. They're both pretty good cameras, but at an extreme zoom, 25X, the Sony seems to deliver a better picture. That's not surprising. The Sony has a much better set of lenses and much more space to play with. The iPhone only has a 5X optical zoom, but it has a higher resolution sensor. They both have ridiculous image processing software, but what doesn't nowadays?	The Strait of San Juan de Fuca as a filler shot
iPhone - Port Angeles blowing off steam	Sony - Port Angeles blowing off steam
iPhone - zoomed in	Sony - zoomed in
iPhone - an eagle seen from the Dungeness Dike	Sony - an eagle seen from the Dungeness Dike
iPhone - zoomed in eagle	Sony - zoomed in Eagle

Keywords: dungeness, eagle, port angeles, software

11/02/23 - Dungeness Highlands With A New Camera One of the nice things about living in a place with seasons is that every time one revisits a trail one can note the seasonal changes. We're well into autumn now, and leaves have thinned and changed color. They cover the trails. Rose hips and berries are more prominent. Even the sky is different. We went back to the Dungeness Highlands again. It was further into fall, but we also had a new camera, one of the new iPhones. We usually use a Sony DSC-HX99, but we wanted to play with a new toy. The pictures were pretty good, though distinctly different. If nothing else, the colors seemed less saturated. On the other hand, that could just be another sign of the changing seasons.	Looking towards Port Angeles
A milky sky and bare branches	The thicket without leaves
The path through the thicket with a few leaves still hanging on	A view south along the trail
Basic colors	Looking east
The mountains again and a winter sun	Fading grass fields
A mystery bird, in silhouette	Some final color
Rose hips	Coin flowers
Bare branches, signs of change	More along the trail
A peak ahead	Through the thicket with a patch of blue mountain visible
Another peaceful trail shot	Looking back across the water

Keywords: autumn, dungeness, trails

10/28/23 - The Dungeness Dike in Bright Sun It was really sunny out at the Dungeness Dike today, but it was a good day for bird watching. The autumn colors are coming in, and there were a fair number of fishers out for cut-throat trout. Is this a sign that the restoration is going well? We hope so.	Lens flare over the Dungeness River
Look, no lens flare!	A kingfisher
Another view of the marsh	More of the marsh
A mystery bird	Another view
More lens flare	Less lens flare
A caterpillar of a different color	Some fall color
And more color	Yet more golden leaves
More of the scene	An owl just before flying away
View from the dike	One of those mock birds one spots from a distance

Keywords: dungeness

10/05/23 - Dungeness Highlands Most people explore the spit when they visit the Dungeness Reserve, but lately we've been exploring the highlands. We head inland along the coast, then cut across the road and follow the main bridle path. We make our way to the overlook with a great view of the Olympic Mountains and a picnic table. This almost completes a loop, but it isn't a very long loop, so we turn around and head back the way we came instead. On our last visit, the color was autumn with bright yellow and red leaves, golden grasses and blue sky, blue mountains and the blue of the strait as backdrops. There are parts of the hike that remind us of northern California, but it's definitely a North Olympic Peninsula scene.	A last bit of fall color here
The green tunnel is still green.	The thicket
Autumn fields and distant mountains	A pathway through the grasses
Another field	That field with mountains and sky
More fall color and another tunnel	Another field and mountains
Yet another field	Golden leaves
Gold and the hills	View from the picnic table
Slightly hazy mountains	Another thicket
Another field again	A golden field
The path across	Passing through
More autumn and the mountains	Some more color
A passing snake	The strait

Keywords: autumn, dungeness

06/21/23 - Dunguness Ducklings They are working on the Dungeness Dike again. We aren't sure of what they are doing, but they a "Trail Closed" sign and some heavy equipment doing stuff. We cut our walk short and stopped to watch the ducklings on our way back to the schoolhouse.	Dungeness River flow
The marshlands with secret ducklings	More flooded areas
The trail was closed	Someone racing along leaving a trail of dust
Someone digging a hole?	Duck and ducklings
Quite a few of them	And another duckling photo

Keywords: dungeness

06/20/23 - A Shooting Star

We saw this flower at the entry station for the Dungeness Spit. We usually see this up in the high country, but with the lodge fire closing the road, we haven't been climbing mountains lately.

Keywords: dungeness, dungeness spit, high country

06/12/23 - Bird Watching at Dungeness Dike Eventually, construction will resume at the Dungeness Dike, but, for now, we're going to take advantage of the peace and quiet. The dike offers wonderful views and great bird watching. The birds don't mind the flooding at all. ...	Mergansers
Gray sky	The flood plain
Birds in a tree	A closer look
A red tailed hawk	The fields
Poppies	Towne Road
Another bird	More marsh
Even more marsh with a bird perched	That blackbird more closely

Keywords: birds, dungeness

06/09/23 - Dungeness Highlands When the tides are against us at Dungeness Spit, we'll head inland and stick to the highlands. That's an out and back hike we take along the bluffs, then inland to a viewing point. It's a short walk from there to the parking lot, so we turn around and retrace our steps. There are grasslands, forests, thickets and some wonderful mountain views.	Along the bluffs
Sunny trail	Distant mountains and nearby roses
More sunny trail	More distant mountains
Seen along the way	Heading north
More open country	Another vista
Yet another	Another thicket - They're popular.
Another look at the Olympic Mountains	And another
A tree full of birds	A close up
Back through the thicket	A floral collage

Keywords: dungeness, dungeness spit, tides

05/29/23 - Farther Along the Dungeness Dike We sometimes just take a short walk at the Dungeness Dike. Sometimes we make the full 90 minute loop from the school house parking lot to the south end of the trail. That lets us leave the dike and head down on a trail that follows the path of the old dike. This late in the spring, it's tall grass and green. We even took a short side spur to take a look at the river.	Setting the scene
More of the scene	Mountains and marsh
Along the route of the old dike	The Dungeness RIver
Further along	And further still
The old dike was completely removed	A familiar field
And farther along	Here is where they planted a forest. Give it time.
One of a few lupines	Another lupine
Pattern of stones	Last view before we left

Keywords: dungeness, spring

05/25/23 - Dungeness Highlands We took our usual walk at the Dungeness Spit. We start at the main parking lot and head south along the bluffs then head east across the access road. There are views of the strait from the bluffs and views of the mountains from along the trail. It's a nice trail with a lot of variety, grasslands, forest, brush and salt water.	First mountain view
Grasslands	Mountain view
Thicket	Brush
An arty view of the mountains	Catkins or fluff
A forest peep	Open area
Forest tunnel	Flowers
A miscellaneous bird	The strait
A tunnel along the bluffs	More of the tunnel
Yet more tunnel with a view of the strait to the left	A miscellaneous squirrel

Keywords: dungeness, dungeness spit

05/21/23 - Dungeness Dike - Spring Progress We took a short walk at the Dungeness Dike. Everything was so green.	The new marsh
A California poppy	More marsh
Even more marsh	A robin
Towne Road	A future forest

Keywords: dungeness

05/17/23 - A Beautiful Day at the Dike We've been having some lovely sunny days out here on the Olympic Peninsula. We took a short walk on the Dungeness Dike to soak it in.	Old Towne Road
High water	Old Towne Road again
More high water in the marsh land	Amazing sky
More marsh and sky	Mountains half hidden in the distance

Keywords: dungeness

04/29/23 - Dungeness Dike and Rising Waters We were back at the Dungeness Dike to check out the rising river. The whole point of replacing the old dike with this new one was to let the river flood freely. Well, it's working. The waters were much higher and the flood waters deeper. The fields were full of mustard. Hawks and eagles were about. We'll see how high the waters get when the spring melt starts in earnest.	A new branch of the Dungeness River
Old Towne Road and the Olympic Mountains	Higher waters
Marshlands	Higher water here as well
Some of the new dike	A future forest
Open fields	Mustard and mountains
More mustard	And even more mustard
Following the path of the old dike	Further along
Through the fields	Mustard flowers and forest
A spring scene	Maple flowers
Some kind of hawk	Yes, a red tailed hawk
More along the trail of the old dike	More forest
Welcoming forest	Mount Baker in the far distance

Keywords: dungeness, eagle, spring

04/18/23 - Dungeness Dike and a Denizen We've been walking the new Dungeness Dike. The fields west of the new dike will someday be forest. We saw a variety of workers including a group from the Washington Conservation Corps hard at work mulching the hundreds of saplings. We've also been watching for signs of spring. Things have been getting greener and the yellow mustard is in bloom. On our way back, we saw a coyote. He was minding his own business, but he decided to watch us from a bit further away. We're a predator species too.	A dramatic sky
The new course of the Dungeness	The green fields
The very young forest	Along the path of the old dike
Mustard in bloom	More mustard
And even more mustard	This is what spring should look like.
Maple flowers	More maple flowers
More of the green field	Maple flowers are not showy.
Heading back along the new dike	The new forest again
The new dike	Some lupine
Towne Road, now part of the river	That coyote
The case of the curious coyote	We must have spooked him or her.
From the distance	Skunk cabbage

Keywords: dungeness, spring

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