Best week of 2025 to get outside!
Godwits are crow-sized shorebirds who trickle through Áak’w & T’aaḵú Aaní in small bands in spring and fall. If you want to see any of Taashuyee-Chookan.aani’s 3 godwit species, this’ll be the single best week of the year. Actually, by the time you read this, given my tendency to take more time journaling than witnessing, it could be too late. On May 10th, 3 of us did a simple counterclockwise loop walk around the forested bedrock bump called Entrance Island, separating Fish Creek’s inner delta from constantly morphing mudflats and marine waters outside. Here are some video highlights.
eBirding northbound migrants; strategic conservation
And here are 4 pages of journal complete with detours into phenology and contour mapping that took 2 more days to finish. I’m just getting into the wonderful app called ebird, probably the most powerful and popular example of citizen science worldwide. Much of this journal details how our conservation community can direct ebird to best document the places we love.
download 3 MB pdf here. 
Not a birder? It’s STILL the best week of 2025 to be outside.
We should be seeing our first baby goat of the year any day now. And the plants are amazing, every day unfurling detectably more. (Honestly I wish they’d slow down up in the goat-mom cliffs—they make filming really hard).
