Port Ludlow, April 21-22, 2012

I saw these red elderberry blossoms in the forest. They were still a little green but just about to bloom.

I saw many holly plants near the edge of the forest and very sparse holly plants in the forest. None of them had berries and they were not very tall.

There were many new small lady fern plants unravelling in the forest. They were only about a foot high, and some were much nearer to the ground and still in a curl form.

I saw this juvenile seagull floating in the bay. I believe it was a juvenile because of its speckeled gray markings.

I saw this sea star attached to the bottom of a log on the tide flats. It was fairly large, much bigger than my hand. Only a few legs were visible.

Groups of these sea snails covered the larger rocks in the intertidal area. They seemed to prefer the eastern side of the rocks where they where found in greater numbers.

I saw groups of these egg sacks nestled amongst the sea snails in patches, I am almost certain that these are the eggs of the sea snail.

Many of these anemones were scattered all over the wet sand on the beach in varying sizes.

This is an Aggregating Anenome opened in a tide pool.

There many geoducks out and about in the sunny weather with their necks above the ground, and they would periodically squirt water in the air.

I believe this is a neck of a horse clam, one of many that was visible on the sand.

I was lucky enough to have my camera with me when a robin landed close by and looked straight at me. It seemed larger than most robins.

Many of these plants covered the forest floor in heights up to two feet high in some places. They didn't have any berries or flowers.

These little vines with an opposite leaf pattern and curling stem grow purple sweet pea flowers later on. Right now they are without flowers on the Olympic Peninsula.

There were many of these plants growing relatively low to the ground in the forest. The leaves were cerated and were in an opposite leaf pattern that rotated perpendicularly up the stem.

This sword fern was just one of many that covered the forest floor. Some were quite large and reached around four feet tall.

This type of seaweed was attached to the rocks nestled by barnacles on many of the larger rocks in the tideflat areas. It has a pod-like structure and a bumpy texture.

This type of seaweed wasn't as common as most of the seaweed that covered the beach, but every once in awhile I would come across a small piece of this purpleish red seaweed with tiny bumps.

The large salmonberry bushes in the forest were bright with new leaves and blossoming bright fuschia flowers. On this sunny day, they were beautifully lit up across the forest.

This small foxglove plant was growing in the forest undergrowth near an opening in the trees.