My first encounter was with this Swainson's thrush. They're rather secretive birds and are typically well hidden in the brush, so it's always a pleasant surprise to be able to photograph one.
This is a male Brown-headed cowbird that obligingly sat on this limb and allowed me to take all the photographs I wanted.
This is a flycatcher but I'm uncertain of it's species. I normally expect to see Olive-sided flycatchers in this area but I think this may be some other species since its breast markings don't seem very distinct. When I first spotted the flycatcher it had a large dragonfly in its beak (sorry Libby!).
I located an adult Barn swallow gathering mud and grass for nesting materials, but on the same day I discovered a pair of adult Barn swallows feeding young on a limb. It didn't appear that the young could fly and I was puzzled as to how they ended up on a fir limb far from any structure. After watching them for awhile first one, then the other took off and I realized that they were fully flight capable, although they probably couldn't yet catch their own food.
And finally, while I was at the park I watched a family of River otters (and adult and at least two young) playing.
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