Eklutna Lake—June 24

So this morning I was joined by the park host, Michalle, and she took me on a trail that went to the lake at its west end.  There we had three spotted sandpipers and an immature diving duck that I will have to figure out from my photos.  There were many varied thrush singing, they sing everywhere in this park, many yellow-rumps, some unidentified sparrows way out in the grass although I could hear the call of at least one Lincoln’s in the group, some very cooperative black-capped chickadees and three red-breasted nuthatches.  By this time it had started to rain so we headed back toward my campsite.  Today was laundry day so after gathering up all the items that needed to go I headed to Eagle River and the laundromat I found the other day.  After the laundry was finished I headed to Subway for a late lunch and then to the public library for internet access.  There I was able to catch up and post all the blogs I was behind and that was a feeling of relief.  By then it 5 and I headed back to camp for some spaghetti and a nice camp fire.