Tell Your Friends about SCGive

Name: Tell Your Friends about SCGive
Start: 2022-11-28T00:00:00-08:00
End: 2022-11-28T23:59:00-08:00

November 28, 2022 @ 12:00 am – 11:59 pm

https://scgive.org/2022_soundwater

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