Bird-watching
The hummingbird chronicles
It took weeks for a Lynnwood naturalist to get his shots
Date: 05/30/2012 | Local News
Outdoors Resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.Everett Mountaineers: Meetings at 7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month, Snohomish County East Administration Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. www.everettmountaineers.org.
Date: 05/26/2012 | Life
Outdoor resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.Everett Mountaineers: Meetings at 7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month, Snohomish County East Administration Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. www.everettmountaineers.org.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Life
Front Porch: Adopt A Stream eagle show
The Adopt A Stream Foundation plans to host a show about eagles at 11 a.m. Saturday, featuring a large bald eagle named Freedom.
Date: 05/15/2012 | Local News
Outdoors resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.Everett Mountaineers: Meetings at 7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month, Snohomish County East Administration Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. www.everettmountaineers.org.
Date: 05/12/2012 | Life
Watch him grow
A hummingbird's journey from nestling to fledgling at PAWS
Date: 05/09/2012 | Fur & Feathers
Outdoors resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.Everett Mountaineers: Meetings at 7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month, Snohomish County East Administration Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. www.everettmountaineers.org.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Life
Outdoors resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.Everett Mountaineers: Meetings at 7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month, Snohomish County East Administration Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. www.everettmountaineers.org.
Date: 04/28/2012 | Life
Outdoor Resources
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.
Date: 04/21/2012 | Life
Dead birds offer learning opportunity for researchers
It's sad to watch dead birds wash up on ocean beaches, birds that were so full of life a short time ago now battered and bedraggled in the sand and stones.It may be small consolation, but those birds can give up facts in death.
Date: 04/21/2012 | Life
Birdwatcher with a purpose
Edmonds ecologist sees changes in local bird numbers
Date: 04/19/2012 | Local News
Do you know these birds?
Take our quiz and find out if you have a brain for birds
Date: 04/13/2012 | Life
Discover Spencer Island
River estuary near Everett is full of wildlife (photo gallery)
Date: 04/08/2012 | Sports
Learn more about swifts, swallows
Like the swallows of San Juan Capistrano, swifts return each year to Monroe's Frank Wagner Elementary School. Both species travel great distances, and both kinds of birds are frequent visitors to Snohomish County.
Date: 04/06/2012 | Life
Can you name that bird?
A guide to feathered faces; which have you seen? (Gallery)
Date: 03/27/2012 | Life
Front Porch: Check out Camano Island’s birds
Go birdingPeople can take a tour of bird-viewing areas on Sunday morning.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Local News
Want to see snowy owls?
Head north to Canada’s nearby Boundary Bay (gallery)
Date: 02/18/2012 | Life
Citizen counts help bird studies
The country is too big and the number of professional bird-related occupations too small to produce more than a scientific sampling of nationwide bird counts, migrations, ebb and flow of bird populations, bird diseases and other facets.
Date: 02/04/2012 | Life
Snowy owl takes flight
Photo captures a rare look at an Arctic visitor to Everett
Date: 02/02/2012 | Life
Eagles rule the roost at Arlington Eagle Festival on Saturday
ARLINGTON -- In this city, where the eagle is the high school mascot and raptors are part of the culture year round, the Eagle Festival celebrates the wintertime visit of large groups of bald eagles to the Stillaguamish River watershed.
Date: 02/01/2012 | Local News
Park for more than birds
Snohomish wetland could be attraction for bird watchers
Date: 01/31/2012 | Local News
Happy trails, thanks to volunteers
Kudos to the 2,600 Washington Trails Association volunteers who put in 100,000 hours to work on maintaining and improving 153 state trails in 2011.
Date: 01/21/2012 | Life
Stirring swans
Take a class about the majestic birds that drop by each year
Date: 01/17/2012 | Local News
Front Porch: MLK Day closures
MLK Day holidayMLK Jr. Day is Monday, so here's a list of places that are closed:Government: Federal, state and county government offices are closed. City offices such as Everett, Marysville, Stanwood, Mountlake Terrace and Monroe are closed.
Date: 01/16/2012 | Local News
See a free showing of 'Winged Migration'
The winter birds are back in town, trumpeter swans, snow geese and snowy owls. To celebrate their arrival and learn more about them the Adopt A Stream Foundation and the Snohomish County Parks Department present a free screening of "Winged Migration."
Date: 01/16/2012 | Life
Ghosts from the North
Snowy owls, usually denizens of the Arctic, venture south
Date: 01/08/2012 | Sports
Photographer will share stories about 12-day birding adventure in Alaska
Talk about where the wild things are. And in this case, we don't mean monsters.Wildlife photographer Dan Streiffert visited the Marsh Fork of the Canning River, a river on Alaska's North Slope that is home to 42 mammal species, 36 fish species and more than 160 bird species.
Date: 01/07/2012 | Life
See bald eagles in action at Skagit River hatchery tour
Seeing bald eagles and learning more about our region's iconic fish make these free hatchery tours in Skagit County a total nature experience.
Date: 12/26/2011 | Life
Sapsuckers might be satisfying sap cravings nearby
Sorting through firewood rounds often yields something beside splinters and alien-looking growths. This time it was a red-breasted sapsucker's calling card: rows of small holes spaced fairly evenly apart in the bark, all the way around.
Date: 12/24/2011 | Life
Bald eagles returning to Skagit River
The eagles have landed, and the Skagit River has one of the largest wintering populations in the lower 48 states.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Life
How your family can discover the quiet joy of snowshoeing
My first experience with snowshoeing was on Mount Rainier. A ranger led a pack of mostly beginner snowshoers who, for the first 50 steps, might as well have been walking on tennis rackets.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Life
It's a great time of year for birders in Snohomish County
Birding action has been hot and heavy up and down the coast this fall: snowy owls around Ocean Shores, Skagit Flats and Stanwood; black-bellied plovers, long-billed dowitchers and Bonaparte's gulls at Hayton Preserve and Fir Island; and Eurasian collared doves in Bow.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Life
Advocates work to keep swans safe
Majestic is often the word associated with eagles, but for sheer beauty and grace, I'll take trumpeter swans.
Date: 11/19/2011 | Life
Front Porch: Trumpeting return
Trumpeting returnThose long-necked trumpeter swans have flown south for the winter … and have landed in the fields around Stanwood and on Fir Island.
Date: 11/11/2011 | Local News
Sample Olympics yourself: Whistler resort offers shot at near-Olympic glory
The legacy of the 2010 Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games lives on at Whistler.The British Columbia ski resort, annually praised by ski, snowboard, outdoors and travel magazines, always seems to be ahead of the pack in opportunities for snowriders.
Date: 10/29/2011 | Life
Front Porch: Herald movie critic Robert Horton on TV
Robert Horton on TVHerald movie critic Robert Horton is scheduled to be on NBC's "Today'' show today."A crew came to Seattle a couple of weeks ago to look at locations of movies shot in the area," Horton said. Horton showed them around.
Date: 10/20/2011 | Local News
Community Calendar
Bazaars•Lost Lake 26th Annual Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 5, clubhouse, 1649 Lake Drive, Camano Island. Tables, $20, 360-387-8278.
Date: 10/09/2011 | Local News
Travel to new places with nature-related books for all ages
By now, most rufous-sided hummingbirds are wintering in the warmth of Mexico.
Date: 10/01/2011 | Life
Heron tosses back some breakfast
Herald photographer Mark Mulligan saw this great blue heron fishing for its morning meal Tuesday at a pond between the Snohomish River and I-5 on Smith Island Road.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Local News
Pileated woodpecker's presence a treasure
"My" three goldfinch babies were jostling for branch space while their mother picked at pine cones and returned in waitress mode. The nuthatch landed on the edge of the open stain can, perhaps deciding whether to take a sip.
Date: 09/10/2011 | Life
Front Porch: The swifts are back
Swifts are back:Vaux's Swifts, the small birds that like to spend the night in Frank Wagner Elementary School's chimney, are back.
Date: 09/06/2011 | Local News
Wing by Edmonds for Puget Sound Bird Festival
Flocks of bird-watchers and other curious folks will land in Edmonds next weekend for the Puget Sound Bird Fest. Friday's keynote speaker, biologist Dennis Paulsen, is a stellar opening act.
Date: 09/03/2011 | Life
This weekend's last chance to take ferry to Jetty Island
It's almost time to wave goodbye to Everett's sandy white beach for the summer.This weekend is the last opportunity to take a ferry over to Jetty Island, the city's manmade, 2-mile-long island off the 10th Street boat launch.Jetty Island is open through Labor Day, Sept. 5.
Date: 09/02/2011 | Entertainment
Still time to retreat with a writer
Summer is winding down, and you've already missed seminars on reptiles and amphibians, the sagebrush steppes, wildflowers, birding, maps and journals, corvids, butterflies, weaving and dragonflies.But the North Cascades Institute calendar still has a few opportunities in a beautiful setting.
Date: 08/27/2011 | Life
Helping out is for the birds
Puget Sound Bird Fest needs you.The event in Edmonds, which is Sept. 9 to 11, is looking for volunteers to handle activities for children, work the registration table, set up and cleanup, along with various other tasks.
Date: 08/20/2011 | Life
Outdoors Calendar
EventsBIKES rides: Various starting locations; Membership and ride info at www.bikesclub.org.
Date: 06/11/2011 | Life
Front Porch: Pilchuck Audubon hosts author of book on bird identification by feather
Flock together: Pilchuck Audubon Society's June program meeting, "Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species," is planned for Friday.
Date: 06/07/2011 | Local News
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