Mount Baker

We went to Mount Baker yesterday. It was lovely, with temperatures in the mid 60s, beautiful scenery, and some fun birds and dragonflies. First, here's the view at Picture Lake, with Mount Shuksan (just over 9,000 ft in elevation) in the background:



Here's Mount Baker, with Betsy on the trail:



In this area we saw some Pine Siskins and Bohemian Waxwings. Here are a couple views of them:

Bohemian Waxwing (left), and Pine Siskin (right).

Notice the yellow tips on the primaries, and the two white splotches on the side of the wings. I was surprised to see Bohemian Waxwings, as opposed to Cedar Waxwings, and so was eBird—I had to file a rare species form for this sighting.

We also saw some darners, including one that did a series of three splash-dunks followed by a nicely visible spin-dry. We saw a couple different species flying by, but only one landed for us—a Paddle-tailed Darner (Mr. Happy-face).



What a beautiful day.