January 2018
Salish Sea
Makes a difference what direction the wind blows here on the Salish Sea. My closest bay has entirely different personalities depending on whether the wind is out of the Southeast — as it is most often in winter storms arriving from the Pacific Ocean — or from elsewhere, since this bay faces SE. These are inland waters, not the open ocean, so most of the time we get no breaking waves.
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Standing at exactly the same spot, just before sunset, these were two different days in January. I’m up on an old seawall, with the bluff (compacted glacial sediment) eroding around it on both sides. Driftwood helps slow down the erosion but one of these days the seawall will fall over.
On a calm day, mergansers feed along the shore in a pretty sunset
(Approx half minute video:)
And a few days later. in a windstorm, all the birds were hunkered down safely in other bays. Fishing isn’t as productive in these conditions. Can’t see prey below the surface; mergansers preferably hunt by sight.
(Approx 1.5 min video:)
Please pardon the poor focusing in the videos! I’m still working on that ;-)
Today is another windy day on the Salish Sea. We have a series of storms rolling in off the ocean for the foreseeable future. This is typical winter weather in the Pacific Northwest.
How about your area of the world — what’s the weather like? What kind of activity are you seeing in your natural neighborhood?
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