by Lisa Horn, Executive Director of West Sound Wildlife Shelter Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. I love stories with happy endings, and yesterday the staff at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter took part in a long uncertain adventure with a very happy outcome. On Wednesday, May 14, Director of…
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Wildlife Watch: Bainbridge Makes Way for Goslings
Posted on 16 May 2013.
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Wildlife Watch: Bainbridge Storage Staff Rescues Duckling, Shelter Reunites Him with Mom
Posted on 30 April 2013.
by Lisa Horn, Executive Director of West Sound Wildlife Shelter Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. It is springtime in the Pacific Northwest, and with that comes the arrival of baby animals. One tiny downy duckling found himself in a frightening situation last week when he became tangled in brambles…
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Bainbridge Shelter Releases Six Eagles Recovered from Poisoning (w/ Photo Gallery)
Posted on 01 April 2013.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Development Coordinator On Saturday, March 30, staff and volunteers at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter entered the C. Keith Birkenfeld Flight Cage on a happy mission: catching six eagles for the final time in preparation for their release back into the wild. The six eagles came to the Shelter…
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Call to Knitters: Wildlife Shelter Needs Your Help to Make Baby Bird Nests
Posted on 21 March 2013.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. Every year, West Sound Wildlife Shelter’s Ward A becomes a hubbub of chirping and twittering. This is the baby bird nursery, the place where tiny robins, jays, towhees, and thrushes struggle to survive their first few…
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Puget Sound’s Coast Guard Cutter Blue Shark Rescues Distressed Eagle at Sea
Posted on 06 March 2013.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. As one of our local Coast Guard cutters, Blue Shark, was patrolling the waters around Anderson Island in South Puget Sound, the crew came upon a bald eagle in distress in the water. They rescued the…
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Wildlife Watch: Are Raccoons Getting Smarter?
Posted on 19 February 2013.
by Lisa Horn, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Executive Director Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. Nearly every day the staff at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter on Bainbridge Island receives phones calls from community members with concerns about raccoons. A few days ago we got one of my favorite questions…
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Wildlife Watch: Point White Heron Treated After Likely Eagle Attack
Posted on 05 February 2013.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. We usually see great blue herons when they’re hunting, wading along the shore in near perfect silence, looking for their next meal. So it was startling when, in mid January, Bainbridge Island Point White residents saw…
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Wildlife Watch: Rescued Coyote Pups Become Each Other’s Family
Posted on 23 January 2013.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. Coyotes are quiet animals. If you were to stand in the West Sound Wildlife Shelter parking lot, you would have no idea that a pair of coyotes is living just 50 feet away. They’re so quiet,…
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Wildlife Watch: Healed Barred Owl Released into the Wild (w/ Video)
Posted on 10 January 2013.
by Lisa Horn, Executive Director at West Sound Wildlife Shelter Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. Releasing our healed patients back to the wild is always our goal, and there is nothing more rewarding. When an animal is brought to West Sound, the staff takes careful notes to determine where…
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Wildlife Watch: West Sound Takes in Rare Western Screech Owl with Head Injury
Posted on 28 December 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator, December 28, 2012, 12:07 p.m. Thank you to our Wildlife Watch sponsor Bay Hay & Feed. On a chilly day in late fall, a Thurston County woman was surprised to find an owl lying in her driveway, completely still. When she investigated further, she found that the…
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Creating Homemade Wildlife Feeders and Other Outdoor Holiday Fun with Your Kids
Posted on 11 December 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator, December 11, 2012, 1:47 p.m. Thank you to Bay Hay & Feed for sponsoring this feature. The phrase “nature deficit disorder” has been in the news for a while now. People who study child behavior, such as Richard Louv, who put forward the idea in his 2005…
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Wildlife Watch: Backyard Bird Feeding—Facts and Fallacies
Posted on 23 November 2012.
by Mike Pratt, Director of Wildlife Services, West Sound Wildlife Shelter, November 23, 2012, 7 a.m. According to a recent Census Report, over 65 million Americans have tried backyard bird feeding, making it our second fastest-growing hobby next to gardening. Americans spend more than $3 billion a year on bird food and over $300 million…
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Wildlife Watch: Spooky Creatures Walk 2012
Posted on 06 November 2012.
by Lisa Horn, Executive Director of West Sound Wildlife Shelter, November 6, 2012, 3:22 p.m. As I drove to the gate of the Bloedel Reserve on October 27, I knew I was in for a spooktacular event. This was to be my first event as the new Executive Director of West Sound Wildlife Shelter, and…
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Bainbridge One of First Community Wildlife Habitats in Nation; How You Can Join
Posted on 24 October 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator, October 24, 2012, 9:17 a.m. If having a yard full of living things sounds exciting to you, you’re in good company. Bainbridge Islanders have long cherished the wildlife that flocks to our yards. When the National Wildlife Federation began its campaign to designate yards, schools, and businesses…
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Wildlife Watch: Bainbridge Barred Owl Survives Double Car Hits on Hwy 305
Posted on 09 October 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator, October 9, 2012, 1:53 p.m. In the gray light of early morning on September 21, a woman was driving along Highway 305 on Bainbridge Island between Koura Road and Lovgreen. Suddenly, an owl swooped down onto the roadway and was struck by the car in front of…
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Wildlife Watch: West Sound Takes in Its First Nighthawk, Hit by Car
Posted on 25 September 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Development Coordinator, September 25, 2012, 4 a.m. There are creatures that move through our world in the dark, unseen and unnoticed by most of us. One of these is the nighthawk, a bird that’s mostly active at dusk, dawn, and during the nighttime hours. Nighthawks are members of the…
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Wildlife Watch: Unusual Young Seabird Delays Ferry Disembarking
Posted on 12 September 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Development Coordinator, September 12, 2012, 2:09 p.m. A little after 2 a.m. on August 24, as the last ferry from Seattle was docking at the Bainbridge Island terminal, a little wading bird called a phalarope sat immobile on the car deck, preventing cars from unloading. Sleepy drivers and…
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Wildlife Watch: Baby Sharp-shinned Hawk Injured in Window Collision
Posted on 21 August 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Development Coordinator, August 21, 2012, 11:20 a.m. There’s nothing unusual about birds crashing into windows. Sadly, it happens every day. But when a hawk hits a window, it’s a different story. Late in July, the West Sound Wildlife Shelter received a call from a family in Bremerton. A…
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Wildlife Watch: Rescued Rare Baby Merlin
Posted on 07 August 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Development Coordinator, August 7, 2012, 5 a.m. Late in July, the West Sound Wildlife Shelter received a call: a large bird was lying in a roadway in Poulsbo, possibly injured. When the bird arrived at the Shelter, the rehabilitation staff saw right away that it was a raptor—it…
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Wildlife Watch: Saw-whet Owlet Hit by Car
Posted on 24 July 2012.
by Elsa Watson, West Sound Wildlife Shelter Development Coordinator, July 24, 2012, 5 a.m. It’s never good when an owl is lying by the side of the road, especially when the owl is young. This little Northern Saw-whet owl was found in Hansville on July 15 by caring people who brought it to the West…
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