January hummers, Bellingham‏ Andrew Reding 1/27/14

I did a 17-mile bike trip around Bellingham yesterday with my camera.

Highlights included hooded mergansers and ruddy ducks on Lake Padden (too far out to photograph well).

A solitary bufflehead on the estuary lagoon where Padden Creek empties into Bellingham Bay.

At Boulevard Park, a great blue heron: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seaotter/12166157183/

And a double-crested cormorant drying its wings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seaotter/12165928305/

At Redtail Reach on Whatcom Creek, a red-tailed hawk overhead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seaotter/12165931155/

And a male Anna’s hummingbird singing and doing courtship flights: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seaotter/

Andrew