Using its wings as flippers, a puffin dives into the water to catch small fish. With their beaks full, they return to their burrows with food for their chicks. This image was taken in Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. (Peter Cavanagh)
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Peter Cavanagh, of Lopez Island, made his career in sports medicine and orthopaedics. A January 2009 morning visit to the Skagit Valley, where he observed “the multi-sensory blast of thousands of snow geese, swans and raptors,” he says, "shaped my direction for the next decade.” VIEW Updated

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Christina Fairley, facing camera, hugs her sister Mimi Schuppler for the first time in more than a year outside Fairley’s home in Seattle during late April. Their brother Tony Chung, of Bellevue, looks on from behind. After Fairley and Chung’s second vaccinations, Schuppler traveled from Austria, quarantined and tested. The siblings reunited in Fairley’s front yard, played with her son Lachlan, 6, and caught up over a dinner. “It was a mix of joy and relief to be reunited with my sister and brother,” says Fairley. “I’ve so missed our family time and to finally be together brought such joy. What I wasn’t expecting was the sense of relief I experienced. It’s been a long year of being apart and worrying about the health of my family. To reach this point where it feels like we’re coming out the other side fairly unscathed was like the release of a long breath I didn’t know I was even holding.” 216986
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A woman walks down a long hallway in The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park in Kenmore Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Many meeting and conference rooms are at right in photo. The Lodge opens this weekend, concluding a years-long process over what to do with the former Catholic seminary, which closed in the 1970s and was neglected for years. 217062
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Potlatch Bistro’s hamburger is called the “Smash Berger”, with 6oz painted hills beef, carmelized onions, lettuce, Beecher’s cheese, mayo and dijon. Seasoned potato wedges are included. Potlatch Bistro and Shore Pine Gelato and Coffee are both located inside the Edmonds Waterfront Center, right by a new refurbished beach area in the front, with a view of the sound and the Edmonds – Kingston Ferry. Potlatch Bistro and Shore Pine Gelato and Coffee are both located inside the Edmonds Waterfront Center, right by a new refurbished beach area in the front, with a view of the sound and the Edmonds – Kingston Ferry. 217004

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“I’m so relieved,” said Elaine Stevens as she gets her second vaccine shot from Dawda Cham, a nurse practitioner with 6M Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine, the sponsor of the clinic. “I’m just ready for this to all be over,” said Stevens about the pandemic. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle hosts a coronavirus vaccine clinic for the community Thursday May 6, 2021. 217039
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Keira Sweeney looks up at an Allosaurus, the largest meat eater during the late Jurassic Period, featured in the Dinosaur Discovery exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The zoo’s new exhibit features dozens of “the world’s largest and most life-like dinosaurs.” Visitors are able to learn more about the historic creatures as the dinosaurs move, breathe and roar throughout the exhibit. The exhibit was created by Dino Don Inc., the only maker of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, which are featured in zoos and museums around the world, according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
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LINESONLY For the first time since closing in the pandemic, the pedestrian bridges at the Ballard Locks were open to foot traffic Wednesday, April 28, 2021. So too was the first floor of the Visitor’s Center. The pedestrian bridges connected two neighborhoods separated by the canal. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said the fish ladder however will remain closed due to an impending maintenance project. 216958
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LO Deputy Mayor of Des Moines Matt Mahoney, left, and Vice President of Washington Scuba Alliance Randy Williams come out of the water after searching for trash with a traffic cone and a dish washer lid during the Underwater Cleanup Day event near Redondo Pier in Des Moines on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Dozens of divers turned out and collected 65 pounds of trash to help protect marine wildlife near the Redondo Beach Pier on Saturday. Divers pulled up items such as fishing lures, a traffic cone, a dishwasher lid, plastics, batteries and automotive parts. The amount of trash was smaller than previous cleanup days where divers have pulled anywhere from 100-400 pounds at sites such as the Des Moines Marina and Seacrest Ferry Dock in West Seattle. “It’s nice when you can pull up a lot, but really any little bit makes a difference,” SR3 executive director Casey Mclean said. “Sixty-five pounds of trash is now out of the ocean” which helps protect marine wildlife and “prevent micro plastics from getting into the fish and into humans.” The cleanup day was organized by Seattle Dive Tours, SR3 (Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research), and MaST Center Aquarium.
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