With popcorn in hand, watch and wonder as the creatures of the wild forage for food, raise young, maintain their plumage, battle for territory and much more on Wednesday, August 16, 7 p.m., at the Camano Multipurpose Center (blue building), 141 N East Camano Drive. Puget Sound area watercolor artist and photographer, Craig Johnson with his wife and writer Joy Johnson, have created a remarkable DVD that beautifully illustrates what can happen when native habitat is allowed to flourish, even in as small a space as a suburban backyard.  The Johnsons show the delights possible by recording the birds and other creatures that visit their backyard.  Using Craig’s animations, graphics, and photographs, the Johnsons offer some simple suggestions to increase the variety of birds visiting your yard. It’s also helpful for identifying birds in Pacific Northwest yards. The Camano Wildlife Habitat Project, sponsored by Friends of Camano Island Parks, hosts public presentations the third Wednesday of the month. For information, call 360-387-2236, visit www.camanowildlifehabitat.org, or email camanowildlifehabitat@gmail.com.

The July Pilchuck Audubon Society program meeting will be held Friday night, July 14th at 7:00pm at the Stanwood Library in Stanwood. The program should be of interest to all with information about these seabirds and how you can get involved in a new study of them on Camano Island.

The next monthly program meeting will be on Friday night September 15th at the 2017 Puget Sound Bird Fest in Edmonds.

Pigeon Guillemots: The Adorable Seabird with Bright Red Feet
with Govinda Rosling
 
Friday, July 14, 2017
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Stanwood Library 
9701 271st St NW 
Stanwood, WA 98292

The motivation of being a Community Wildlife Habitat is to have neighbors link yards and reestablish wildlife corridors. Looking at Camano’s habitat map provides evidence of this and has been demonstrated on several of the garden tours that have had adjoining properties to visit.

The National Wildlife Federation certified Camano Island as the tenth community wildlife habitat in the nation in 2005. There are now 894 NWF-certified wildlife habitats on the island. 

Above normal temperatures are predicted for Saturday, but our island waters moderate the temperatures here, so it should be a perfect day to tour our 4 gardens.  Dogs are not allowed in the gardens so be sure to leave your canine friends at home where they'll be cool.

Pick up your maps for the 2017 Backyard Wildlife Garden Tour this Sat. starting at 10am at Camano Multipurpose Center (AKA — The Blue Building), 141 NE Camano Drive.  Gardens are open from 10-4.  

If you live on the island and have a certified habitat, thinking about picking up one of our new Camano Wildlife Habitat signs when you get your brochure.

Join your neighbors for refreshments and conversation about continued work at Triangle Cove. Snohomish Conservation District is partnering with Island County Public Works to replace the Kristoferson Creek culverts at Barnum and Russell Roads. This will allow threatened Chinook salmon and other fish move easily between the important habitats in Triangle Cove and Kristoferson Creek. Ask questions about the project, timeline and construction impacts.

Thursday June 22, 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Island County Multipurpose Center (the blue building next to CASA), 141 N. East Camano Drive, Camano Island

No need to register. Questions? Please call or email Kristin Marshall at 425-377-7017 or kristin@snohomishcd.org. You may also learn more at snohomishcd.org/kristoferson-creek-fish-passage-barrier-improvements-process.