Ecola Creek Awareness Project

Migration

2008-04-29T18:11:00.000-07:00

Driving home today from the studio I saw a turkey vulture on the ground about 10 feet off Highway 101. This was just north of the Warren Way exit into Tolovana Park. Wow!
~Suzanne Kindland

In the Estuary

2007-08-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

Along with the Great Blue Heron that has been around for a while, a green heron has also been hunting in the Les Shirley Park restored area. A couple of small otters have been sighted as well.

Nature Note: Eagle at the Beach

2007-06-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

Photo taken by Rex Amos
An early winter morning, Cannon Beach 2007

Nature Note: Merganser Chicks

2007-06-06T23:05:00.000-07:00

Spotted a female merganser with her two chicks at Ecola Creek this morning.

~Jay

Nature Note: Vultures!

2007-06-06T23:03:00.000-07:00

Driving home from Manzanita today I saw 2, possibly 3 vultures. Probably turkey vultures, as they were too dark in the wings to be any other kind. Very impressive, with their small red heads and huge wings. They were scouring 101 between Arch Cape and Cannon Beach .

~ Suzanne

Nature Note: Neahkahnie Violets

2007-06-02T14:28:00.000-07:00

Wild violets, yellow and purple, blooming on Neahkahnie Mountain.
Their fragrance filled the air.

Nature Note: Hunting Eagles

2007-06-01T09:50:00.000-07:00

This last weekend I saw three immature eagles hunting Bird rock near Chapman point. For the first time I actually saw an eagle capture its prey, a Murre, and then the three headed south and up Ecola Creek.

~ Jay Raskin

Nature Note: Pileated Woodpecker

2007-05-26T16:21:00.000-07:00

Right around the first of May I saw, well first I heard, a pileated woodpecker hammering away on a huge snag in the Ecola Creek forest, just behind the gate. It flew away as I got closer, but there was no mistaking the giant woodpecker.