Upcoming Habitat Related Events
March 2 & 3, 2012, Snohomish Conservation Plant Sale,Commercial Building, Evergreen State Fairgrounds Monroe. General Sale Hours: Friday 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Open to the Public. Cash and checks only.
Monday, March 5th. Training Application due to become a Beach Watcher. Beach Watchers are professionally-trained volunteers dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea’s fragile environment through education, research and stewardship. For information on class dates, times and content, check this web site. http://beachwatchers.wsu.edu/snohomish/training/index.htm
Wednesday, March 7th, 7-8:30 p.m. Rose Hill Center Auditorium, 304 Front Street, Mukilteo. Bears to Barnacles: Cool Animals of The Salish Sea, by Dr. Joe Gaydor, SeaDoc Society. Come hear about some of the biggest, baddest and craziest animals in the world. Over 3000 invertebrate, 247 fish, 172 bird and 39 mammal species use the Salish Sea. Each has a fascinating story and together they interact to weave seat-gripping stories of predation, competition and collaboration. Free event.
Friday, March 9, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Everett Firefighters Hall, 2411 Hewitt Avenue, Everett. Pilchuck Audubon Society presents Understanding Shorebirds, the Miracle of Migration, with Tim Boyer, a photographer and naturalist, who will share his award winning photography of migrating birds. Free event.
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 10 am to 11:30 a.m. Rain Water Tour. Take a walking tour of seven rain gardens in Everett’s Northwest neighborhood. Learn why rain gardens are needed and get ideas for your own yard. To register contact MG.Help@wsu.edu or call 425.357.6010 to get a map of the tour.
Saturday, March 10, 2012. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Sno-Isle Library. Library Wildlife Garden Planting Party. About 400 native plants will be planted in the garden at the library. Some shovels will be provided, but bring your own if you can. Wear work gloves and boots. Questions? - email mukilteowildlife@gmail.com or call Janet at 267-0448. Children 8th grade and under must be accompanied by an adult. Donations of many of the plants were made by Storm Lake Growers and the Snohomish Conservation District.
March 24, 2012. Noon to 3 p.m. Celebration of Mukilteo's Certification as a Community Wildlife Habitat and Dedication of the Library Wildlife Garden. At 1:00 p.m. Courtney Sullivan will present Mukilteo's Certificate to Mukilteo Mayor Joe Marine and at 2:00 the Library Wildlife Garden will be dedicated. Enjoy children's art and a continuous slide show of certified yards and Mukilteo wildlife photos. Refreshments will be provided.
Wildlife Watching
January and February. Bald Eagle Watching in the Upper Skagit Valley. Morning is the best time to see eagles feeding on dead salmon by the river’s edge. Check this website (http://www.skagiteagle.org/directions.php) for the best places to watch. Cloudy or overcast days are the BEST days to see and photograph bald eagles on the Skagit River. On days like this, after eating, bald eagles stay close to the river, perching in trees, digesting their morning meal, and conserving energy.
November through March. Trumpeter and Tundra Swans return to the Skagit Valley to over winter. The best areas for finding swans are: Fir Island, northwest of Conway, where you may also see Snow Geese and more Tundras than Trumpeters; drive through the main Skagit Valley farmland north of Hwy 20 and west of I-5, and east of I-5 along Cook Road going toward Sedro Woolley. Swans will be in the fields throughout this area at various times during the winter season. No hunting allowed.
Mid-October to early May. Snow Geese in the Skagit River Delta. Large flocks of from 60,000 to 100,000 snow geese winter in western Washington. Fir Island and Port Susan Bay are good places to see the snow geese, but some birders have also reported sightings of snow geese near Sikes Lake in the Snoqualmie Valley. Hunting of this and other waterfowl occur from mid October to the end of January, but the geese can be observed at reserves off limits to hunters.
January through April. Stand along the lower Japanese Gulch trail and look for the Great Blue Herons flying into the tree tops.
Monday, March 5th. Training Application due to become a Beach Watcher. Beach Watchers are professionally-trained volunteers dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea’s fragile environment through education, research and stewardship. For information on class dates, times and content, check this web site. http://beachwatchers.wsu.edu/snohomish/training/index.htm
Wednesday, March 7th, 7-8:30 p.m. Rose Hill Center Auditorium, 304 Front Street, Mukilteo. Bears to Barnacles: Cool Animals of The Salish Sea, by Dr. Joe Gaydor, SeaDoc Society. Come hear about some of the biggest, baddest and craziest animals in the world. Over 3000 invertebrate, 247 fish, 172 bird and 39 mammal species use the Salish Sea. Each has a fascinating story and together they interact to weave seat-gripping stories of predation, competition and collaboration. Free event.
Friday, March 9, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Everett Firefighters Hall, 2411 Hewitt Avenue, Everett. Pilchuck Audubon Society presents Understanding Shorebirds, the Miracle of Migration, with Tim Boyer, a photographer and naturalist, who will share his award winning photography of migrating birds. Free event.
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 10 am to 11:30 a.m. Rain Water Tour. Take a walking tour of seven rain gardens in Everett’s Northwest neighborhood. Learn why rain gardens are needed and get ideas for your own yard. To register contact MG.Help@wsu.edu or call 425.357.6010 to get a map of the tour.
Saturday, March 10, 2012. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Sno-Isle Library. Library Wildlife Garden Planting Party. About 400 native plants will be planted in the garden at the library. Some shovels will be provided, but bring your own if you can. Wear work gloves and boots. Questions? - email mukilteowildlife@gmail.com or call Janet at 267-0448. Children 8th grade and under must be accompanied by an adult. Donations of many of the plants were made by Storm Lake Growers and the Snohomish Conservation District.
March 24, 2012. Noon to 3 p.m. Celebration of Mukilteo's Certification as a Community Wildlife Habitat and Dedication of the Library Wildlife Garden. At 1:00 p.m. Courtney Sullivan will present Mukilteo's Certificate to Mukilteo Mayor Joe Marine and at 2:00 the Library Wildlife Garden will be dedicated. Enjoy children's art and a continuous slide show of certified yards and Mukilteo wildlife photos. Refreshments will be provided.
Wildlife Watching
January and February. Bald Eagle Watching in the Upper Skagit Valley. Morning is the best time to see eagles feeding on dead salmon by the river’s edge. Check this website (http://www.skagiteagle.org/directions.php) for the best places to watch. Cloudy or overcast days are the BEST days to see and photograph bald eagles on the Skagit River. On days like this, after eating, bald eagles stay close to the river, perching in trees, digesting their morning meal, and conserving energy.
November through March. Trumpeter and Tundra Swans return to the Skagit Valley to over winter. The best areas for finding swans are: Fir Island, northwest of Conway, where you may also see Snow Geese and more Tundras than Trumpeters; drive through the main Skagit Valley farmland north of Hwy 20 and west of I-5, and east of I-5 along Cook Road going toward Sedro Woolley. Swans will be in the fields throughout this area at various times during the winter season. No hunting allowed.
Mid-October to early May. Snow Geese in the Skagit River Delta. Large flocks of from 60,000 to 100,000 snow geese winter in western Washington. Fir Island and Port Susan Bay are good places to see the snow geese, but some birders have also reported sightings of snow geese near Sikes Lake in the Snoqualmie Valley. Hunting of this and other waterfowl occur from mid October to the end of January, but the geese can be observed at reserves off limits to hunters.
January through April. Stand along the lower Japanese Gulch trail and look for the Great Blue Herons flying into the tree tops.
