{"id":78,"date":"2026-06-30T03:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:16:55","slug":"blog-6-wildlife-and-views-around-anacortes-washington-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/2026\/06\/30\/blog-6-wildlife-and-views-around-anacortes-washington-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG #6 – Wildlife and Views Around Anacortes, Washington USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I headed out on Thursday, June 25th for a morning of birding and wildlife watching around Anacortes. The conditions were moody in the best way, and the wildlife delivered.<\/p>\n

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Mt Baker B&W<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We started with Mt Baker. A belt cloud had wrapped itself around the peak, and the light was flat and dramatic at the same time. Perfect for black and white. We shot it when looking across Padilla Bay from Fidalgo Island with a pleasure boat sitting in the foreground.<\/p>\n

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Mt Baker with Boat Padilla Bay B&W<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then things got really good.<\/p>\n

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“Laurel & Hardy” Marathon Eagles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two juvenile bald eagles, probably just over a month old, were sitting in their nest watching one of their parents hunt a rodent in the field below. They were so locked in, they barely noticed us. We’re thinking of calling them Laurel and Hardy.<\/p>\n

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North Harbor Eagles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Near North Harbor, we spotted an adult eagle pair. The female was holding down the nest.<\/p>\n

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Guemes Channel Harbor Seal Giving me the “Evil Eye”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The harbor seal in Guemas Channel was the cherry on top. He surfaced, looked straight at me, and seemed completely unimpressed.<\/p>\n

Have you spotted any eagles or harbor seals around Anacortes this season?<\/p>\n

Please enjoy these photos!<\/p>\n

Thanks and have a great week!<\/p>\n

Ernie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife and I headed out on Thursday, June 25th for a morning of birding and wildlife watching around Anacortes. The conditions were moody in the best way, and the wildlife delivered. We started with Mt Baker. A belt cloud had wrapped itself around the peak, and the light was flat and dramatic at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}