May 2026 - A fox after food!?

I remember the day many years ago when people were at the Park and having picnics...Then all of a sudden orcas showed up and everyone ran to the shore to see the whales. I was very new and so I stayed back...Glad I did because a fox came down toward the lighthouse, got up on the bench of the picnic table and grabbed a chicken - ready to eat - and the fox took of!

This year - 2026 - a family was having a picnic and a Birthday celebration.  Some family members went to explore the shore line while others remained at the picnic table and down came a fox...heading for their picnic table...but the fox decided there were too many people so he turned and went back up the hill.

Can you spot him? I zoomed in on a couple images...

Well, that ox ave the picnic birthday folks a treat and me some un memories!

Early May 2023-Transient orcas

All the way through May 8, Transient orcas have been in many places among the San Juan Islands, in Puget Sound, and north in Canadian waters. I saw them a couple times, missed them a couple times too.

Here are images of two groups...actually one group was by themselves one day and then they were with the rest of their family the other day.

This family hasn't been seen traveling together, at least when seen in the U.S. waters in many years. So the second day was pretty special, seeing them all together.

While waiting, a vulture did a fly-over. 

First day of the T65As. Some had grown alot since the last time I saw them and little did I know it would come in handy the following day. Not only had T65A-3 grown alot, so had T65B-1, and they looked very similar. T65A2, adult male, has a notch near the top of his dorsal fin, which sets him apart from the other males in this family, at least for now.

A couple days later T63, T65, T65Bs and the T65As were all together.

and...one of those days a fox showed up at Cattle Pass!

He too scanned but his scanning was looking for a meal in the grass. Not sure how many people were looking, if any, at the fox because most were looking at the water...most of the time!

11-23-17 A Good Day to Check In On the Foxes

Thursday, November 23rd
...with the sun shining (finally), light wind, and the unlikeliness of the SRKWs being in the area...it was off to South Beach to see what the foxes were doing for Thanksgiving...perhaps looking for some rabbit to feast on...

...the rabbits were in abundance and this one popped up from his/her rabbit hole...

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...the fox set up at another rabbit hole and I went home to a vegetarian dinner!