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  • Great Blue Heron's arriving at a rookery guarding and building their nests. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Heron rookery
  • A cormorant dries its wings on a buoy in Lake Washington near Seward Park.  Mt. Rainier can be seen in the background. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Cormorant
  • A Great Blue Heron rests on a tree beside the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks as it builds its nest in Ballard on the first day of spring. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times, 2014)
    Sticking with it
  • A hummingbird tries to beat the heat at the end of the day by sticking it's tongue deep into a gurgling bird feeder fountain in North Seattle as temperatures soar across the region. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Cooling sip
  • (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Orca whale breaching
  • A male bumblebee settles in for a night's sleep at dusk on the petals of a Helenium plant. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Sleepy bee
  • Under sunny skies, red-winged blackbirds hang out in an area filled with cattails in Normandy Park. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Red-winged blackbirds
  • Steller's Jay. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Stellar Steller
  • A snowy owl photographed in 2012. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Arctic beauty
  • A house finch is spied in the backyard in North Seattle. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Spring songbird
  • A bald eagle flies over Howard Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport, Skagit County. An adult bald eagle has a wing span from 5.9 to 7.5 feet. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Skagit County eagle
  • A cormorant opens its wings toward the foggy early morning sun on Lake Washington. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Morning stretches
  • A dragonfly flies over a patch of Lily pads at Martha Lake in Lynnwood. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Summer's flight
  • After feeding on a hyssop blossom, a hummingbird pulls back to find a flower stuck on its beak. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Hummingbird takeout
  • Snow geese from a flock on Fir Island fly past Mt. Baker in the distance. Each year about 60,000 - 100,000 Snow geese migrate from Wrangel Island in Russia to the estuaries of the Fraser and Skagit rivers. During the 3,000-mile journey, they may reach altitudes near 3,000 feet and speeds approaching 50 miles per hour. The sound of a flock of Snow geese can be heard from a mile away. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Plump flight
  • A great blue heron, likely from the colony or heronry at Commodore Park, glides over the waters west of the Ballard Locks in Magnolia. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Fly, fly away
  • A Barred Owl sits on a tree above the pond at the Woodland Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum looking for prey.  Known also by the name, Hoot Owl, Barred Owl’s are native to the northern east coast but have expanded there territory to the west coast including Washington State. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Barred owl
  • You never know what you might see on a hike. This is a barred owl, sitting on a downed tree’s roots above the pond at the Woodland Garden section of the Washington Park Arboretum, looking for prey. Known also as hoot owls, barred owls are native to the northern East Coast but have expanded their territory to the West Coast, including Washington. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Owl be seeing you
  • Sharp, dagger-like beaks are great for spearing fish. This is a mating pair on a nest in a colony on West Commodore Way. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Great blue herons
  • What appears to be two bald eagles in a dogfight is more likely an “inflight courtship” ritual of interlocking talons, according to Mark Myers, curator of birds at the Woodland Park Zoo. Myers believes the smaller bird above is the male, and the larger female is below. The eagles were seen over Union Bay in Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Love is in the air
  • Left behind when the Skokomish River floodwater receded, a male chum salmon takes his last gasps in a puddle under a tree that will grow stronger from the nutrients deposited by his rotted flesh. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Pacific chum
  • A southern resident orca cruises past the lighthouse at Point Robinson Park on Maury Island. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, taken under NOAA permit #21348, 2018)
    Point Robinson cruise
  • Members of J pod cruise past Vashon Island. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, taken under NOAA permit #21348, 2018)
    J pod cruise
  • A southern resident orca breaches near Vashon Island. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, taken under NOAA permit #21348, 2018)
    Puget Sound orca
  • Mount Baker provides a spectacular backdrop for K20, a female born in 1986. Orcas can swim 75 miles a day and more, with bursts of speed up to 30 mph, and are capable of diving deeper than 3,000 feet. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2018)
    Orca and Mount Baker
  • An arctic beauty in the Stillaguamish River estuary near Stanwood. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Snowy owl
  • Anna's hummingbirds have become  year-round residents thanks in part to backyard hummingbird feeders. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Beloved bird
  • A red-tailed hawk is released in a field in Duvall after rehab at Sarvey Wildlife in Duvall. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Red-tailed hawk released
  • Wild horses dash on the high desert on the Warm Springs Reservation below Mount Jefferson's peak that reaches 10,497 feet. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Wild, wild horses
  • An immature Bald eagle carries away a crab dinner from the Everett waterfront. (Mark Harrison, The Seattle Times)
    Crab dinner for one
  • Majestic raptors gather along the upper reaches of the Skagit River in their annual pursuit of spawned out fish. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Lone eagle
  • A line of trumpeter swans flies past Mt. Baker. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Wiser Lake swans
  • Reaping what he sowed, a Black-capped chickadee plucks a seed from a sunflower that is fading into fall.  Chickadees spilled seeds from a bird feeder in the spring and these sunflowers grew in the Montlake neighborhood. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Black-capped chickadee
  • A Pileated Woodpecker goes to town on a tree in Hamlin Park in Shoreline. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Woodpecker
  • Great blue herons near Seattle's Discovery Park. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Great blue herons
  • This bald eagle was photographed near the mouth of the Elwha River (the lower river where it meets the Strait of Juan de Fuca). A healthy river with salmon attracts eagles. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    To the sea
  • A bee cruises around the vast rows of lavender. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Bee happy
  • Water-collecting bees will make multiple flights for the good of the hive. Each bee can carry only about 50 micrograms of water in a flight. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Water-collecting bees
  • Cormorants dry their wings on pilings along the West Seattle waterfront -- the top of the space needle peeks through the fog at center. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    West Seattle cormorants
  • On the wing, a crow cruises over the Union Bay Natural Area, a popular birding area behind the Center for Urban Horticulture. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Tallying winter’s wings
  • A spider back-lit by a white light in the background waiting patiently in the early morning mist for it's prey. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Spinneret silk
  • Snow geese gather by the thousands in the farmlands of Skagit Valley and North Puget Sound from their breeding grounds on Siberia's Wrangel Island and mainland Siberia.  (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Snow geese swirl from the sky
  • Snow geese gather by the thousands in the farmlands of Skagit Valley and North Puget Sound from their breeding grounds on Siberia's Wrangel Island and mainland Siberia.   (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Snow geese
  • Snow geese fly in formation along Fir Island Road west of Conway (Skagit Country) above the fields where they winter.  (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Flying in formation
  • Snow geese look for a spot to set down in a farmer's field on the north side of Fir Island in Skagit Valley.  (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Snow geese landing
  • Snow geese gather by the thousands in the farmlands of Skagit Valley and North Puget Sound from their breeding grounds on Siberia's Wrangel Island and mainland Siberia.  (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Snow goose
  • Butterfly (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Small wonder
  • A gull shares space with two oystercatchers on Destruction Island off Washington's coast. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Rocking the beach
  • An Arctic Fox is awakened from it's nap just outside the opening to its den in a snowstorm on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2006)
    Arctic fox awakens
  • On a windy and very cold spring morning, a Grey Crowned Rosy-Finch takes flight. This species lives on St. Paul Island year around. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2006)
    Grey Crowned Rosy-Finch
  • On the Skagit River near Rockport, Bald Eagles have returned in strong numbers to feed on the salmon carcasses that line the gravel bars. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Skagit River Bald Eagle
  • A Rocky Mountain elk on sunrise ridge at Mt. Rainier National Park. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Elk at sunrise
  • Moon jellyfish drift with the current making one revolution every five minutes inside their 1,200-gallon circular tank at the Seattle Aquarium. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Drifting jellies
  • Bald eagles come to the Skagit River in winter. The birds come to feed on salmon carcasses. The abundance of birds has spawned a tourist boom with many outfitters offering float trips in inflatable rafts. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Eagles
  • A Short-eared owl takes flight as it hunts rodents in the fields along Eide Road near Stanwood. (Mark Harrison / Seattle Times)
    Bird of prey
  • Bullfrogs thrive in the algae rich storm water holding ponds on Trilogy Golf Club at Redmond Ridge. The non-native cannibalistic amphibians eat just about anything they can fit into their mouths including other frogs, birds, snakes, lizards, turtles, and fish. The ponds are just a chip shot away from a sphagnum bog that is the head waters of Bear Creek. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Bullfrog in algae
  • A paper wasp maneuvers around an orange trumpet vine in Seattle's Central District. Even wasps knock pollen around in flowers, which they defend by carrying off other bugs such as caterpillars to feed to their young. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)<br />
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    Fortuitous pollinator
  • An Anna’s hummingbird defends its tiny treetop nation of one. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Hummingbird defense
  • A herd of wild horses run on the open range of the Yakama Indian Nation near Toppenish. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Yakama wild horses
  • Alaska white geese fly over wetlands on the Alaskan tundra just outside Teshekpuk Lake. Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2005)
    Arctic birds flying
  • A polar bear framed by the remains of a dead bowhead whale sniffs the air near the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 3,800 polar bears that live off Alaska's coast face an uncertain future as global warming melts more of the Arctic's summer sea ice each year, forcing them to spend more time on land competing with grizzly bears and people. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2005)
    Polar bear and whale bones
  • A snowy owl circles its nest outside Barrow, the northernmost town in the United States. Snowy owls are so aggressive about protecting their eggs from predators -- such as Arctic foxes -- that other birds often make their nests nearby. Owls typically eat rodent-like lemmings, but the number of both on the tundra outside Barrow has been low for several years. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2005)
    Aerial observer
  • A great blue heron swoops down at a fish after watching it for more than 10 minutes at Juanita Bay in Kirkland. The heron missed its prey. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Great blue heron at Juanita Bay
  • In hot pursuit, a crow dives at a bald eagle off Alki Beach, likely telling it to move along and get away from a nearby nest. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Alki aerial skirmish
  • A hummingbird grabs a snack from a garden flower. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Garden hummingbird
  • Snow geese look for a place to land in the farmlands of Skagit Valley off Fir Island Road.    The Fraser River delta is an important wintering spot and heavily used by the birds that will migrate to Wrangel Island to breed. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Snow geese on the wing
  • A lone Bald Eagle scans the Skagit River in late afternoon light.  (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Eagle on the Skagit River
  • A young bald eagle is buffeted by the wind as it perches along the Skagit River on Fir Island near Conway.  (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Eagle in the wind
  • A black bear lies in wait among the moss covered rocks and plucks salmon from AnAn Creek near Wrangell, Alaska, March 11, 2001. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Fishing for lunch
  • Sticking close, a gaggle of Canada geese — 15 are offspring — head north on Lake Washington near Seward Park recently. The geese, generally partial to fresh water, have become very successful urban dwellers. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)
    Geese take a swim, with 15 kids in tow
  • A number of Snowy Owls returned to Washington in 2013, creating speculation that there would be an echo from the previous year’s large scale southern migration, Nov. 26, 2012. Irruptions, as they are known, occur periodically and 2012 was particularly good for local bird watchers. Several of the arctic beauties staged in the Stillaguamish River estuary near Stanwood. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Snowy owl
  • An antlered buck, photographed in a field of wildflowers at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, stands as a symbol of Northwest wildness. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Antlered buck
  • A Great Blue Heron takes flight from a dock near Husky Stadium on Lake Washington just before sunrise. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Taking flight
  • Sea life like this Pacific Blood Star is on brilliant display at low tide as tide pools form at Point of the Arches at Shi Shi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula.<br />
(Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
    Sea Star on the beach
  • Comb jellyfish in their tank behind the scenes at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. They inhabit Puget Sound; these were netted at the ferry dock in Tacoma.<br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Comb Jellyfish
  • Japanese Sea Nettles swim about in their exhibit at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.<br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Japanese Sea Nettles
  • Under UV light, crystal jellyfish have a ring that glows.<br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Crystal Jellyfish
  • Egg yolk jellies have a clear or milky bell with a yellow center and feed on smaller jellyfish. At Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.<br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Egg Yolk Jellyfish
  • Crystal jellyfish have transparent bells and under UV light the rims glow with color. At the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.<br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Crystal Jellyfish and UV Light
  • The Columbian white-tailed deer run free at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer, designed to protect and manage the remaining population of deer in the lower Columbia River valley. <br />
Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times
    Columbian White-Tailed Deer
  • Snow geese cause a near white out on Fir Island in Washington state.<br />
(Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Whiteout
  • A rainbow trout works its way upstream on a side channel of the Elwha River in the Geyser Valley above two dams [since removed]. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Rainbow Trout Swimming Upstream
  • A transient orca breaches while feeding off of Stuart Island as whale watchers from Canada get their money's worth. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Bearing Witness - Orca Breaching
  • Clownfish dart in and out of an anemone near Dobu Island, Papua New Guinea. Research on clownfish has shown that elevated levels of carbon dioxide can alter how fish see, hear and smell, which can increase the likelihood of death.<br />
Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times
    Clownfish in Papua New Guinea
  • A great blue heron takes off after doing a little fishing in Normandy Park. <br />
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Ellen Banner / The Seattle Times
    Heron in Flight
  • A male Anna's Hummingbird with his sparkling pink throat and cap on display flutters to a halt in mid air before soaring off to feed on a blossom.<br />
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Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times
    Anna's Hummingbird
  • An oystercatcher holds a limpet it found as it walked along a rock in Chuckanut Bay near Bellingham. <br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Catch of the Day
  • An orca breaches in Elliott Bay with Magnolia in the background, as viewed from Alki Beach in West Seattle. <br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Orca Show
  • Two Orca whales swim past a ferry in Elliott Bay.<br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Swimming with Ferries
  • An orca whale swims by another flipping its tail in the air, in Elliott Bay, as viewed from Alki, Thurs in West Seattle. <br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Orca Tail
  • A winter wren is framed by sword ferns. The wren is known for its full-throated, complex song and this male is letting other birds know he's staked out this territory in Discovery Park.<br />
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Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Winter Wren
  • Hundreds of trumpeter swans have migrated to the rain soaked fields of the Snohomish river valley where they will spend the winter.<br />
(Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
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  • A  honey bee stops at a flower in the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.  <br />
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Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times
    Collecting Pollen
  • Keeping watch over her territory, an Anna’s hummingbird pauses atop a leaf at the Winter Garden. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)
    An Anna's hummingbird pauses on a leaf
  • A mother hummingbird feeds one of her two babies in their tiny nest up in a pear tree. <br />
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Ellen Banner / The Seattle Times
    Dinner Time!
  • Pink Salmon sitting in a small pool on their way up the Dungeness River to spawn. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Pink Salmon
  • A mature bald eagle leaves it's mossy perch above the Skagit River near Marblemount. <br />
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Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times
    Taking Flight
  • A hummingbird zeros in on an early blooming Azalea at the Washington Park Arboretum. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Early Spring
  • A Violet-green Swallow forages for insects at the surface of Lake Union. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Swallow on Lake Union
  • A ladybug in a field near the University of Washington. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Ladybug
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