Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
1st–Row out set the pots/ wait at least 4 hrs and go back and get them. Sort out the females and throw them back into the water.
2nd–Get the cooker going, have ice bucket ready. Make sure you have tongs and a big glove. These guys PINCH–HARD!
Third–you have to clean them… Now you have to pull their “lids” off and take out the guts (on the right). Now you have the crab you can crack and eat (on the left)
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!
This Anna’s Hummer was hanging on for dear life this weekend. It was really blowing at the end of the bay. I only had a 50mm lens but he let me walk right up to him.
There are a LOT of Turkey Vultures on the peninsula. Down at the end of Sequim Bay they were sunning themselves.
I think this is a Song Sparrow…he at least thinks he is. I sat there watching him at the top of this branch sing away with a pretty lil song for almost a half an hour.
I was at the Jamestown S’klallam village at the end of Sequim Bay. They have lovely trails and benches to enjoy the wildife and the bay.
You see bald eagles everywhere on the peninsula at his time of the year. They are actively hunting to feed their voracious chicks.
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!