Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
Protection from humans, but not predators…
I shot this from my boat. When I first took it I thought it was really big salmon. Protection Island is just off the Sequim coast in the straight. It has all sorts of bird wildlife….and seals.
This lil baby seal didn’t make it.
Freedom started as a lil idea that grew. Just like this lil baldy.
We should never take for granted that they will both still exist without our help!
This river otter (they live in salt water too) barely made it onto my dock before he went to sleep. I guess he was tired!
I was heading out to photograph birds about 6am. A deer crossed the road before me (not unusual) so I slowed and stopped because when 1 goes there is usually another.
THEN this lil guy tumbled down the side bank, got up took a few wobbly steps then saw my car and just dropped down in hide/you can’t see me mode.
I took this thru my front window, waited for him to get up…NOPE.
Mom came back and encouraged it and then noticed my car and ran up the original bank. I waited….but cars were starting to come. I directed them around. I tried to go near it and shoo it off the road. No movement.
So I went and got a towel, wrapped it up , carried it to the trail at the top of the bank and put it in the woods. (mom was no where to be seen). He was barely bigger than my cat and clearly just a few hours old.
Then I hear more cars so I moved mine to a driveway, got my camera and peaked to see if it was up–but it was gone. WHEW!
I saw this heron come out of the grass to hunt, and all of a sudden fish were jumping everywhere. It was a long way away even for my 600mm lens but I did manage to capture two fish jumping.
I’m very drawn to wildlife photos with the creatures just peaking out of the trees or especially grasses. It was shot on a very over caste morning before the sun came up. When I took the noise out of the photo it gave it this slightly painterly look which I liked.
These goslings were eating down around Three Crabs Rd here in Sequim–a big wetlands filled with birds.
Those eyes definitely say WILDlife.
It was a misty rainy day… so the atmosphere created a hazy backdrop. All I had to do was crop!