Today Becca and I decided to go bird watching. She has an app on her phone called iBird, you can find any bird call! We called in a thrush, and a junco. We originally were just going to walk to the edge of the lake and hangout, but we ended up walking the entire loop trail. We sat down on the opposite side of the lake and watched one of the trumpeter swans fly in, an eagle fly over head, heard the call of a loon and watched the fish jumping! Crazy what you can see in 10 minutes or less if you just take the time to look! Like always we saw bear scat and tracks, but no bear! Although Becca said that on her drive to pick me up she saw a black bear! Hopefully my chance is soon!
When we started out it was really dark and on the verge of raining so we were layered up, but by the end the sun was out in full force and we were peeling layers off. After our sweaty hike we spontaneously went swimming in Byers lake, mind you the ice just went out about three weeks ago. Probably the coldest water I've been in! We could hear the people on the nature hike gossiping about us and looking at us through their binoculars like we were Alaskan wildlife!
The little white speck in the picture over the lake is the swan flying, the other picture is at the inlet part of the lake and it's like a meadow, prime moose habitat although I haven't seen any in the park yet.
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