Tag Archives: Skagit County

Look Both Ways When Crossing the Road

While parked up at East 90 and watching the birds hunt, I glanced behind me – always a wise plan – and saw a northern harrier coming in my general direction.  It flew low across the field and over the road before finding a perch.  As I looked through the images afterwards, I found it funny to see the bird crossing what seemed to be not far behind a vehicle.  I hope it had been taught how to cross the road.

A little while later, the same process was followed by a bald eagle.  The shot makes it look like it was actually coming along the road but I think that is just compression of perspective.  It was probably this side of the road.  It also safely made its way across without having any conflict with passing vehicles.  Maybe the local birds have copies of the Green Cross Code (for those of you of a certain age that grew up in the UK).

Snow Geese Taking Over

The snow geese are a famous feature of Skagit County in the winter.  They migrate through the   area and feed well on the local fields.  I wasn’t looking to get shots of the geese while I was up there but the view across the fields was dominated by them.  I figured a little video was more appropriate to show just how many of them were there.  They were a bit distant but that might actually be the better way to show just how constant their movement was.