four Stellar Sea Lions cuddle on top of a navigation marker in the Salish Sea
An oyster catcher seabird on top of a navigation marker in the Salish Sea
When we were regularly sailing the Salish Sea, we joked that every navigation marker must contain sea lions. They look cuddly, until you see them hunt. Oyster Catcher keeps a look out on top of the marker. They don't actually eat oysters. #PNW #SalishSea
Two researchers lie flat on a grassy coastal bluff, heads covered, probing seabird burrows. Rocky shoreline and ocean beyond.
How do you check on rhinoceros auklets nesting in deep burrows? Lie flat, drape a T-shirt over your head, thread an infrared camera into the dark. Photo: Eric Wagner
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#SalishSea #SeabirdsAsSentinels
The arrival of Bigg's killer #whales in the #SalishSea raises questions about the health of #marine food webs and the resilience of #coastal communities. nationaltoday.com/us/wa/seattl...
Sayward, BC is a picturesque little logging town aside the Salish Sea and many Gulf Islands. It's also the put-in to the only canoe loop on Vancouver Island. #photography #landscape #MountainMonday #bc #SalishSea #GulfIslands #VanIsle #home
From inspiration to finished sketch, using samples from the upcoming Land and Sea Palette. Salish Sea Watercolors - using nontoxic, sustainably sourced pigments and ingredients.
#watercolor #watercolorpaint #blueskyart #salishsea
A black and white photograph of a mudflat with pools of reflective water
Evening bird walk at False Bay
#sanjuanislands #salishsea #blackandwhite
Playful juvenile Bigg's killer whales following behind 37 year-old female T172 Katmai
It was exciting to see T49B Van, who we hadn't seen in 4 years. Unlike her siblings T49A and T49C, she doesn't visit the Salish Sea very often.
The T49B/T117 group surging west as the T19s approached
A male Bigg's killer whale tail slaps in the Strait of Juan de Fuca as the two groups of orcas merged and started socializing
We're still reliving a picture perfect encounter in the Strait of Juan de Fuca last weekend with 11 Bigg's killer whales, including some we don't get to see too often! Present were the T19s, T49Bs, T117A, T117Bs, and T172.
#orcas #salishsea #whalesky
A drying tidepool scene: Rockweed’s (Fucus gardneri) browny-yellow inflated sacks are on the lower left, sundry caked seaweeds mixed with limpets and small snails and hermit crabs fill the other corners, and a solitary aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima) looks out like a green eye with a pink iris in the top middle left of the photo.
The tide was really low today, and because it was sunny a lot of the seaweed had gone crispy on the rocks and everything that could hide, had really hidden. The few anemones I found looked morose and squashy instead of plump dense tucked-tight mounds. #tidepool #SalishSea
Couple under sparse spruce tree. Ocean is beyond and islands in distance. Clear sky.
Shady rest spot
#MeerMittwoch #Monochrome #hiking #SalishSea
#SouthernResident #SRKW & #Biggs killer whales are 2 #PNW #Orca subspecies,different genetically,social structure,behavior & diet one only feeds on only salmon the other marine mammal’s, one species is dying off because of #salmon decline #SalishSea #WashingtonState #BritishColumbia
Here's our first staff photo-ID challenge! Amanda (Whale U instructor and research assistant) and Vanessa (webstore manager and research assistant) face off for two rounds of Bigg's killer whale flashcards.
Can you ID any of these whales as you play along?
#salishsea #orcas #whalesky
Killer whales surfacing to take a breath
Beautiful day yesterday watching killer whales travel up the northern Orcas Island shoreline. The light was absolutely drool-worthy.
#orca #killerwhales #wildlife #wildlifephotography #pnw #pnwlife #salishsea #sanjuanislands
Book cover of Seabirds as Sentinels by Eric Wagner alongside a praise quote from author Michelle Nijhuis. Text reads: Seabirds Live! May 13.
Trust Eric Wagner to see the poetry in science." Hear him discuss Seabirds as Sentinels live at Seabirds Live! — free, May 13, UW Tacoma. Link in bio to register.
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#SeabirdsLive #SalishSea #RhinocerosAuklet #Seabirds #BookEvent
It’s a beautiful morning and all I can think about is peace. Let peace fill our hearts, our worlds and our universe 💖✨🦋
#RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ArtChallenge #DailyArt #Nature #Rocks #EastCoastKin #OceanVibes #PhotographersUnited #SalishSea #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Peace
Calm Seas on a Spring day
#vancouverisland #campbellriver #photography #Spring #straitofgeorgia #salishsea #sailboat @weathernetwork.bsky.social
My new book has a NEW link. Here's the info & link to order in PDF or print. You can page through it using "Preview" tool - cool sound effects as the pages "turn". 😀
#photography #nature #wildlife #SalishSea #naturephotography #boating #BCcoast #environment @blurbbooks
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A male Bigg's killer whale surfaces in front of the Lime Kiln Lighthouse in Haro Strait near San Juan Island, Washington
T65B1 Birdsall passing Lime Kiln lighthouse this afternoon
#orcas #killerwhales #salishsea #whalesky
🐳🦭🦀 Support the Salish Sea Aquarium! 🐚🐠
#yyjevents #victoriaevents #sidneybc #vancouverisland #salishsea #magic #jasonverners
The Brant Geese making their annual visit to #Parksville. #photography #ECK #nature #wildlife #migration #SalishSea #BCParks #RathtrevorPP #VanIsle #home
Parent and child sitting on logs on a sandy beach. Ocean beyond and light cloudy sky
Place to ponder
#MeerMittwoch #salishsea #photography
A bluff top trail leads out to the shoreline through a mixture of new green grass, and the golden dead twigs from the last season.
Glowing clouds burst with warm light at Sunset. Air temp was a cool 39 F
Golden light hitting the dried winter grass at sunset.
Looking eastward from Grandma’s Cove towards Cattle Point Lighthouse at Sunset. Whidbey Island can be seen in the distant lowland with Lopez Island in the center of the photo.
We’ve had some incredible #Sunset sightings recently.
Amazing light qualities too!
#Photography #Nature
#Seascape #PNW #SalishSea
#TidesOutTuesday
Here’s one from Sunday evening for #TidesOutTuesday. #Sunset over the #SalishSea was spectacular! A little #Nature to fix things up! #AmericanCamp #SanJuanIsland #PNW
#WashingtonState
A rugged coastline stretches into the distance under a brooding overcast sky, where wind-sculpted conifers cling to lichen-streaked cliffs above a small dark cove, and a forested island sits low on the horizon across the pale gray water of the Salish Sea.
Wind-bent trees, fractured rock, and lichen everywhere.
#TidesOutTuesday #RockinTuesday #photography #pnw #seascape #clouds #landscape #nature #landscapephotography #salishsea
Pink sunset over the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington State taken from the ferry, so there is water in the foreground. High peaks with snow on them and many different colors. We were looking for the whales...
Friday night ferry ride. Sunset March 27th.
Sunset over the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. Even better in real life. #Sunset #salishSea #opotoutside #waterlife #ferry #washington #lookup
🐋 💙 #orca #JPod #ocean #Pacific #SalishSea #PNW #nature #marinelife #naturelovers 🐳
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A Glaucous-winged Gull chick at about 40 days of age. At a former study site in the #SalishSea, British Columbia.
#gulls #BirdOfTheDay #birds
A young orca calf surfaces surrounded by its family in the San Juan Islands. This calf is one of the newest members of the Bigg's killer whale population and has been designated T49A7.
This evening we were lucky enough to meet one of the newest members of the regional Bigg's killer whale population, calf T49A7 that was first seen earlier this month. You can see them here surrounded by the other orcas in the T49A matriline 😍
#orcas #whalesky #salishsea #wssjis
