by Kathryn True | Nov 26, 2022 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
The visiting Acorn Woodpecker. Photo credit: Jim Diers An acorn woodpecker has been hanging around the old Misty Isle Farms airstrip at SW 232nd Street since Nov. 2. For the nonbirder, this information might result in a shrug, but to the birding community on Vashon...
by Bianca Perla | Oct 22, 2022 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
Elwood, the young male Northern elephant seal in Tramp Harbor this fall. Credit: Jim Diers For almost everyone living in the Pacific Northwest over the past century, Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) are not considered a common sight. But, over the...
by Kathryn True | Jul 30, 2018 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
This guide, developed in collaboration with island farmers and wildlife managers, is one resource available to download free from our website (see link below). We’ve received four reports of mountain lion sightings since early summer, but we have not been able...
by Bianca Perla | Sep 18, 2017 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
Over the last few days we had an intrepid team of 10 volunteers join our stream team, rearrange their schedules to beat the oncoming rains, and conduct our 5th annual stream invertebrate survey of Vashon creeks. We finished exactly 1/2 an hour before the fall rains...
by Bianca Perla | Jul 23, 2017 | Wildlife Sightings
We will continue to update this blog post with most current wildlife sightings. Click Read more to view. We hope you enjoy learning more about our varied and interesting wildlife on Vashon! Please note: accuracy is important to us. We only post sightings that have...
by Bianca Perla | May 19, 2017 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
by: Bianca Perla, featured photo above by Kelly Keenan. Have you ever touched whale skin? It’s slippery and firm like the smooth skin of a wet apple. Have you had the chance to stand and look down into a whale’s gaping mouth? The lines of stiff baleen fray open to...
