It bears repeating but one of the biggest advantages of 24 hour sun is you can do things while the rest of the world sleeps. Say its 4:30 in the morning, and you've been hit by insomnia and knowing you have to get up in a couple of hours you give up trying to sleep. And say its the first sunny calm day in a week. If the feeling took you, you could hop in your truck and go watch birds. I mean its light out, no one is going to disturb you.
And say you decide to just sit quietly in the truck, you might get to see things you haven't seen before. Like three Lapland Longspurs fighting at the same time, tumbling through the air with a background of the cliffs across Admiralty Inlet framing them. Or you might see Baird's Sandpipers copulating right in front of the truck. And hear things you haven't heard before, like Red-throated Loons mewing like a cat, instead of sounding like a nuthatch on steroids.
And if you finally leave the truck, to see if you can stalk the Baird's Sandpiper for a closer photo you might, just might discover that occasionally birds can be unafraid and very accommodating. And you just might end up with a photo that you are actually very proud of.
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