Thanks to Clare Brooks for the photo! That pileup of driftwood at the west end of the Alki promenade is at least in part thanks to the high tide wind-and-saves action shown here. The National Weather Service had a Coastal Flood Advisory in effect for “minor” overflow this morning and has another one up for 7 am-1 pm Thursday, when the predicted high tide is again 12.4 feet (9:01 am this time, with calmer atmospheric conditions less conducive to overflow).
12/25/25 noon-2:30pm Xmas On my rainy walk with my monocular lens, today I saw:(bad photos from iPhone)
Sea Geese:Black BrantBranta bernicla nigricans (16 total), on Alki beach.
Some evidence the King tide came over the wall at the Alki Bathhouse. (You can see the Space Needle in the fog if you zoom in!)Sea Otter (1) on the shore at Constellation Park, Cormorants (3)Some wintering Arctic birds:They breed in the Arctic and winter in the Puget Sound.Ducks:Surf Scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, from Alki, in the distance, mid channel. (6)Bufflehead –Bucephala albeola, in the Fauntleroy ferry bay at Lincoln park. (4)Joyeux Noël West Seattle!
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