Category: Nature

Just a short post here, we didn’t plan any specific birding adventures this trip to Whidbey. As you know we’ve explored South Whidbey parks as well as Crockett Lake near Coupeville. On this trip we just planned to relax and do some swimming but sometimes nature happens! As we were taking the dogs out a bat dropped out of a tree right on the lawn next to us.

Just in time for Superb Owl Sunday, an article on owls! If you are as old as I am you will remember in the 90’s the hullaballoo about Spotted Owls here in the Pacific Northwest. At the time the culprit was logging, Spotted Owls have evolved to inhabit old-growth forests, tall trees, old snags, healthy streams, and with the many food sources that also live in the same habitat.

A few weeks back I noticed my strawberry patch was getting thinner. And it wasn’t the strawberries going missing although they were just starting to ripen, nope, it was the entire plant.

Sometimes you head out in search of some birds and happen upon something a little different. This weekend we had the pleasure of observing this family of river otters between Crockett Lake and Admiralty Bay just east of the Coupeville Ferry on Whidbey Island.