Pacific Northwest Wildlife

Orca Breaching at Cattle Point

An Orca (Orcanis Orca), member of the local L-Pod, breaches at Cattle Point on the southeastern tip of San Juan Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

Island Pie in Deer Harbor, Wash.

A Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) rests on a piling at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal on Saturday morning, June 5, 2021, in Anacortes, Wash. (photo © Paul Conrad/@PaulConrad.Photography). Canvas, Metal, and framed prints available here: ...

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

Sea Lions on Whale Rock

Sea lions on Whale Rock east of San Juan Island take notice during a day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

Watch The Birdie

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - A gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis) checks the shutter speed and f/stop prior to clicking the shutter at Picture Lake in the Mount Baker Ski Area east of Bellingham, Wash.

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies over Birch Bay north of Bellingham, Wash.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) squawks at the Community Boating Center in Bellingham, Wash.

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© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - Russ Kendall cooking his Gusto Wood Fired Pizza at the Bellingham Farmer's Market on Saturday. An eagle in flight near Oak Harbor and the Anacortes oil refinery against Mount Baker.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - A purple ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) on a Puget Sound beach between Carkeek Park and Richmond Beach for the cool waters of the encroaching tide north of Seattle, Wash.

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© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - A Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) takes flight along West Beach Road on Whidbey Island east of Oak Harbor, Wash.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies over Locust Beach in Bellingham, Wash., on the shores of Bellingham Bay.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) takes flight at Birch Bay north of Belligham, Wash.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rests on a sanbar at Birch Bay north of Bellingham, Wash.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) take flight over Birch Bay north of Bellingham, Wash.

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© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - Russ Kendall cooking his Gusto Wood Fired Pizza at the Bellingham Farmer's Market on Saturday. An eagle in flight near Oak Harbor and the Anacortes oil refinery against Mount Baker.

© Paul Conrad/Pablo Conrad Photography - In this 4 second exposure, a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) waits patiently for a fish along Whatcom Creek in Bellingham, Wash., near the Maritime Heritage Museum.

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A day with Heidi My Li'l Bear whale watching with Blackfish Tours by Outer Island on Thursday June, 21, 2018, around the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound, Wash. Spotted the L Pod along the eastern shore of San Juan Island near Danger Rock. Then followed the pod south until leaving them as they passed the Cattle Point Lighthouse. About a dozen whales including several calves.(@ Paul Conrad/Paul Conrad Photography)