Carrie Blake Park

This very diverse park in Sequim has a Japanese garden filled with ducks!

A new entrance road into Carrie Blake Park opened late last month. The road is just south of the previous entrance and was moved to improve flow in Bell Creek and eliminate flooding. It runs between the Sequim Skate Park and Trinity United Methodist Church.

The new road leads to the Guy Cole Convention Center which has recently been renovated, including fresh paint, new doors and windows.

One of the new windows is this stained glass rendering of a Roosevelt elk by Millie Harrell.

Now what?

He made it to the top but Mom had to help talk him down.

Dahlia dive-in

The dahlias at Carrie Blake Park are at their peak. Sometimes I just can’t get enough of their soft colors.

I love the subtle shading and profusion of perfect petals.

It’s a good thing they don’t have a lot of fragrance. I’d be totally helpless to their charms if they did.

Dahlia time

There’s a nicely landscaped flower bed at Carrie Blake Park. I hadn’t checked out the dahlias for a couple of years. They occupy part of a top tier.

Dahlias grow beautifully around here and the ones at Carrie Blake don’t disappoint. I’ll show you more tomorrow.

Duck hunting

I went to Carrie Blake Park recently to see what kinds of ducks I might find there. A previous visit yielded only mallards. This time I was pleased to find wigeons – lots of them. Most of them were American Wigeons. These are the ones with the greenish heads (males) and brown and grey mottling (females). But there were a few Eurasian Wigeons mingling with the group. You can see a male with the ginger colored head.

According to my bird book, “More Eurasian Wigeons overwinter in Washington than anywhere else in the other lower 48 states.” And apparently they tend to hang out with other Wigeons.

There generally are lots of ducks at Carrie Blake Park this time of year. Wigeons make a sort of whistling sound. The air was full of whistles at the park.

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