Mukilteo: daily Photo, Portal of The Pacific NW

29.12.09

28.12.09

Frozen rain forest. Yesterday.

26.12.09

25.12.09

Merry Christmas!!! Apple pancakes!!!

22.12.09

The second 787 flying out of Everett this morning at 9:10, into the wild gray yonder

This one is a Nippon Air, but won't deliver to Nippon.

Boeing keeps the first half bakers dozen.

19.12.09

In these photos you can see the snow geese flying against the hills in the background. I'm afraid iPhone isn't the best camera to use. But it sure is

Look for white dots, then you will see formations and birds..

These are the snow geese I seem to have scared away. Usually this distance wouldn't scare them. But it's hunting season they are wary.

Mt Rainier seen in distance from LaConner Wa

I had to keep this dark to get The Mountain. It's over 250 miles away.
Mt Rainier is over 14,000 ft and is the largest volcano in the Cascade
Mountain range.

Trumpeter Swans in the Skagit Valley yesterday

There are also snow geese. It's hunting season. Hunters were filling
fields with white objects as decoys to lure the birds to shoot them.

The birds were coming in from the south in large beautifully patterned
formations. Againt the back drop of mountains it was simply
exhilarating.

In safe marshlands they landed yet were very wary. I scared them away
when I walked closer but not close to photograph them well. Some seemed to
know it was a safe haven. I'm sorry I scared them away from their food
source. I was surprised they took off with me as far away.

Maybe they could post a sign.

I saw a few hunters with their geese in hand walking out of the marshes.

I also saw a pair of dead mallards in an area where it said, no
hunting allowed. Obviously that was just about killing.