Never know what you'll see at the ferry dock...
I always check the tops of the dolphins (I think that's what they are called?) at the ferry docks, because once I saw a whole nest of fuzzy baby seagulls in one at the Bainbridge dock! No babies yesterday, but at the Edmonds dock, I saw this. So many questions! Any theories?
If you know these structures, you know the scale. This was a very large bone! It still had some tissue attached. I'm assuming it was scavenged and then dropped by a raptor, because a scenario where a human carried this giant bone on a ferry just to put it up there seems even more farfetched!
Unrelated (presumably!) but from the same day, the second pic is of a very large and very sleepy sea lion near the dock at Edmonds.
It was a great day for wildlife in general! Saw an eagle getting harassed and scared away by some little birds, a couple harbour porpoises between Kingston and Seattle, tons of harbor seals, a couple of kingfishers, and lots of ospreys!