Picnic Point — Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2022

Now that we are well into spring, the minus low tides are happening during daylight hours. I went down to Picnic Point to see what might emerge in the early afternoon as the tide as going out. There were quite a few people parked in the lot but most of them must have gone north toward Shipwreck Point. I went south and only saw a few others. I spotted a bald eagle on top of one of the pilings that have bird houses on them. The eagle was tearing something apart with it's beak and claws. I walked through the tide pools and met a crab scurrying around and when I approached for a portrait it gave me what I can only assume as the Dungeness Finger with it's claw. About a half mile south I was able to spend about fifteen minutes watching a great blue heron fishing. It seemed quite successful as it was catching a bout two a minute.

The weather was coming from the south as usual and I was able to watch some clouds form over the Kitsap Peninsula and drop rain to the west.