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At shoreline events, Sound Water Stewards will create learning opportunities to connect people with local marine life  — and share sustainability actions to preserve the marine environment!

Here is a list of Local Places and what YOU can see there (depending on the season and tides):

Leque Island

• Heron rookery
• marine birds
• salmon habitat restoration

Iverson Spit Preserve

• varnish clams, Eastern soft-shell clams
• ghost shrimp (sand shrimp), sculpins
• driftwood
• freshwater pond, former beaver dam
• seasonal marine birds: herons, hooded mergansers, eagles, green-winged teals, mallards, buffleheads, seagulls

Barnum Point

• bluff erosion
• holes in bluff that various birds use for nests
• freshwater pond, ducks
• native and invasive plants
• whale bites: in season, on minus tides
• marine birds: goldeneyes, herons, mergansers, eagles, cormorants, grebes, surf scoters, buffleheads , hawks, and seagulls

Camano Island State Park

• bluff erosion
• native trees and plants: Pacific Madrone, Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Big-Leaf Maple, mosses, ferns, Salal, snowberry, kinnickinnick
• plankton
• snail eggs on rocks
• eelgrass beds with brownish diatoms
• Bald eagles

Cama Beach State Park

• minus-tide species (tides below 0.0 feet) in the eelgrass and under rocks
• Cranberry Lake wetlands with water plants and water birds
• bluff erosion
• Bald eagles
• native trees and plants: Pacific Madrone, Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Big-Leaf Maple, mosses, ferns, Salal, snowberry, kinnickinnick
• sand dollars

Maple Grove Boat Launch AND Utsalady Boat Launch

• forage fish – at high tide
• barnacle eating nudibranch – at minus tide

Camano View Road

• Pigeon Guillemot

The more funds we raise, the more learning events we will be able to present.

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