Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Ducks and Ships and Sanderlings

Escaping from the extremely local Siberia of my neighborhood (streets neither plowed nor sanded), I went out on Ediz Hook Monday afternoon.

As to feathers: harlequin ducks, some mallards mobbing a pintail and chasing him away, Canada geese, wigeons, black turnstones, and sanderlings.

As to ships, tugs were moving Genmar Hope into place at the terminal, another tug was doing something to Theano (she had her name in Latin letters on the prow, in Greek on the stern), the heavy tug Andrew Foss was moored on a buoy, a fishing boat pulled a line of floats to a buoy and moored it with two others, Overseas Los Angeles and Polar Enterprise were anchored in the harbor, a cutter was pulled up to the Coast Guard station, and Coho sailed.

Andrew Foss, Theano, Genmar Hope (Click for larger image.)

ΘΕΑΝΩ, port of registry ΧΙΟΣ (Click for larger image.)

1 comment:

Sky said...

several more inches of snow from 4 am to 3 pm today...then a little rain, then more snow. temps are above freezing but will drop shortly and more snowfall may come in. we are ready for normal seattle rain! i wanna go out! ;)