Wildlife Viewing

Whether you fancy fish, fowl, or fauna, our neck of the woods has ample opportunities to glimpse creatures in the wild—often without having to leave urban environs.

Did you know that every year osprey, Vaux’s swifts, and gray whales migrate from Mexico to Snohomish County?*

Did you know that Stanwood’s farm fields host hundreds of thousands of migratory Canadian geese annually (Branta canadensis)?

Get a glimpse of Snohomish County wildlife.

Maybe you’ll glimpse a shy-but-elegant blacktail deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) or an adorable boulder-dwelling pika (Ochotona princeps) while hiking the backcountry. What fortune!

Whether you fancy fish, fowl, or fauna, our neck of the woods has ample opportunities to glimpse creatures in the wild—often without having to leave urban environs.

*(That’s Pandion haliaetus, Chaetura vauxi , and Eschrichtius robustus, respectively.)