[birding] Fitton Green (actually tan) 8/30

[howard bruner]

Afternoon-whitened tawny slopes where at the edge of the land the sky is a stark white band grading into washed autumn blue.  Ringlets bumped around and grasshoppers chattered up from every step forward.  Sweaty temps from serious solar gain. A fence lizard ran a short track down the dried mud road.  A pileated. woodpecker whooped off somewhere in a shady drainage.  Poison oak everywhere including right into the trail in diminutive clumps, walked into a form of matted ground cover.  
 
Steller’s Jays rasping, juncos ticking, goldfinch perchickering, and swallows chattering and at the top near the monstrosity that lords the ridge a distinct small flock of vg swallows in the washed blue and tight green of the oaks.   The sunflash from feather shine got real serious with a brilliant white individual that flashed and shone in all attitudes.  Probably total albino, but unconfirmed due to distance.  The flock gamboled for several minutes and the white one briefly landed on a dead oak branch.  Truly a shocking visual – delicate and white as fresh snow.
 
h
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