Our bike tour has now brought us to the Columbia River Gorge region. Thus we have finally exited the high desert region, and a few clouds and moisture has finally been in the air. This combination has meant more birds given both available food and water. If you would like to learn more about our bike tour, Glaciers to the Sea, please follow this link. In the meantime, here are the birds of the Columbia River Valley.

Columbia River Gorge

Day 240: Common Merganser

Day 241: Great Blue Heron on an irrigation canal fence

Day 242: Golden Eagle

Day 243: Herons a Hunting (Great Blue and Green)

Day 244: Western Scrub Jay

It has been hot and dry for the past several days as we bicycle tour across the high desert plateau. Birds have not been very much in evidence, but each evening I was able to find some photography subjects as we camped or used a small motel near somewhere with some “sprinkled water”.

Day 237: Eurasian Turtledoves

Day 238: Starlings at Sunset

Day 239: Flock-o-Ducks

Today was our first full day of biking along the Columbia River. While enjoying a 15 mile long bike path through Richland, Washington I suddenly noticed  Canada Goose which was quite odd. While not a true albino (lack of pigment and pink eyes), this goose was definitely Leucistic which means it was lacking in pigment in certain parts of its body.