Riggs Canyon July 2009
Riggs canyon is a place I've driven to on my own and not been able to visit. You need to park your car a fair way back down the road from where the track starts. It's not that far, but too far for me, so I took the opportunity to get Karen to drop me off and then go park the car and catch up to me. Very nice place and a very nice day. Plenty of birds around, most in the first part of the trail. The further you go along the trail, the more you end up in a sort of wooded area that makes it a little more difficult to see the birds and almost impossible to get any photographs of them.
The highlight was a mating ritual put on for us by a pair of western tanagers. The female landed on the telephone wire and the male was soon to arrive to strut his stuff. Most of his moves seemed to consist of the arse thrust - kind of a lets see how far I can push my bottom out. Don't know if it worked - they both left, maybe to get busy in privacy or to go their separate ways. The birds photographed are:
- Black Phoebe
- Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
- Dark-Eyed Junko
- Nuttal's Woodpecker
- Pacific-slope Flycatcher
- Scrub Jay
- Western Tanager
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