My son Daren participated in the weekend's Special Olympics state track meet at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. We left home Friday morning in order to avoid the afternoon's horrific rush hour traffic. After checking into the motel at Dupont and eating lunch, we toured the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Billy_Frank_Jr_Nisqually/
Barn swallows were flying around the pond in front of the gift shop and refuge office.
We did the short Twin Barn Loop so Daren would not be get too tired for the track meet on Saturday and Sunday. Lots of birds were singing in the wooded portions of the trail, but I only got photos of cedar waxwings,
a western wood-pewee(?),
and a Swainson's thrush.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Billy_Frank_Jr_Nisqually/
Barn swallows were flying around the pond in front of the gift shop and refuge office.
We did the short Twin Barn Loop so Daren would not be get too tired for the track meet on Saturday and Sunday. Lots of birds were singing in the wooded portions of the trail, but I only got photos of cedar waxwings,
a western wood-pewee(?),
and a Swainson's thrush.
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