Category: Wrangel Island

Categories: 5-1V, Banks Island, bird migration, Bosque del Apache, flyway, neck band, neck collar, Queen Maud Bay, Ross's Goose, Snow Goose, Wrangel Island Posted on

A Snow Goose Named 5-1V

Each year we witness grand tides of migratory life. Cranes rattle overhead; geese wing south from their breeding grounds; tiny warblers rain into coastal brush after battling a headwind on their way north across the Gulf of Mexico. And it is possible through banding programs … Continue readingA Snow Goose Named 5-1V

Categories: Bald Eagle, Rough-legged Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Skagit River, Skagit Valley, Snow Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Washington, Woolly Mammoth, Wrangel Island Posted on

Skagit River Flats

After days of visiting family and painting a playroom to look like a ferny forest inhabited by dinosaurs, I step onto the night ferry from Port Townsend to Whidbey Island, Washington. The lights of town recede, and the dark waters and crisp night air of … Continue readingSkagit River Flats