March Brings Spring!

Dunlin & Black Turnstone & Sanderling
We are sad that it’s now been a year without our monthly Natural History Society outings. However… in this month’s attached newsletter, our readers share joyful signs of spring.

Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering Currant)

Polygonia satyrus (Satyr Anglewing)
Our Guiding Committee has compiled the following list of websites, recorded lectures, and other suggestions to inspire you this spring.
- You can access the Land Trust’s past recordings of lectures from “Nature in Your Neighborhood” and “Discovering the Forest:”
https://saveland.org/discovering-the-forest/ - For free weekly presentations about “Great Rivers of the West” during March, with Washington rivers featured on March 31: https://www.westernrivers.org
- From UW’s Nature & Health a Zoom lecture on March 3 called “Hiking My Feelings: Stepping into the Healing Power of Nature:” https://natureandhealth.uw.edu/news-and-events/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150146786
- Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island has created a series of free personal nature explorations: https://bloedelreserve.org/strolls-at-home/
- The Natural History Society’s book club just read (and loved!) Kelly Brenner’s Seattle-based Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World. Her website is fun to explore: http://www.metrofieldguide.com
- If you missed Nature Now on KPTZ, you can listen to podcasts on Nature Now Archives – KPTZ 91.9 FM Radio Port Townsend, here: https://kptz.org/podcasts/nature-now/
- A few local organizations offer outings and classes, which we encourage people to support by joining!:
- Friends of Fort Flagler hosts “Birding in the Park” on Saturdays from 9-12: https://friendsoffortflagler.org/events
- Friends of Fort Worden plans monthly Trail Team Work Parties: https://www.fwfriends.org/new-events
- Dungeness River Audubon Center lists upcoming classes, most at no charge, including birding, prairies, crabs, and ducks: https://dungenessrivercenter.org/events-2
- And last… Here’s a video of Dunlin fleeing from a Peregrine Falcon in the Skagit Valley, set to music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=n1Wq9WkAwrQ&feature=emb_logo

Rubus spectabilis (Salmonberry)

Dosewallips River
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Rain doesn’t stop intrepid naturalists from looking for insects at Gibbs Lake in September 2018.

Hooded Merganser

Dungeness Spit driftwood and stones

Surf Scoter