Habitat Photos

​​​Habitat Photos is an opportunity for the community to help track the changes happening at our habitat restoration sites by creating crowd-sourced time-lapse videos. Your photos document each site’s progress and show how the​ hard work from community and agency partners has contributed to a healthier ecosystem for fish, wildlife, and people.

You can find photo stations at select City restoration sites where you can capture and submit photos using the following steps:

  1. When at a photo station, simply place your phone or camera horizontally in the Chronolog bracket(s) provided and take a photo. Using the bracket helps to ensure that the photos are all taken from the same angle.
  2. Email or text your photo to Chronolog using the instructions provided on the Habitat Photos sign at the site.
  3. Chronolog automatically adds the photos to a time-lapse video that is sent to you and added to photo station webpage on the Chronolog website.

Photo stations are currently installed at the Little Squalicum Estuary in Little Squalicum Park, the Padden Creek Daylighting site near the Rotary Trailhead, and the Squalicum Creek Re-route site near the Sunset Pond parking area. ​​

Time-lapse Videos​ 

View time-lapse videos for all of the City of Bellingham photo stations on the Chronolog website:

All Habitat Photos Time-Lapse Videos

There are two photo stations located at Little Squalicum Estuary in Little Squalicum Park. Completed in 2024, this project constructed a 2.4-acre estuary and removed a partial fish passage barrier at the mouth of Little Squalicum Creek. The estuary provides critical habitat for all five Pacific salmon species, especially young salmon originating from the lower Nooksack basin (Bellingham Bay, Squalicum, and the Nooksack River).

Little Squalicum Estuary Pedestrian Bridge Station

Little Squalicum Estuary Trail Station

Aerial view of the estuary, with trails surrounding it and a railroad trestle above.

The two photo stations located on the pedestrian footbridge near the Squalicum Creek Re-route Phases 1 and 2 restoration project show a downstream and upstream view ​of this restoration project. Constructed in 2015, the project removed fish passage barriers, improves water quality, and reconnected the stream to its floodplain.

Squalicum Creek Re-route Downstream View

Squalicum Creek Re-route Upstream View

Creek flowing among trees.
Upstream view of the Squalicum Creek Re-route from a photo station.

The two photo stations located on the pedestrian footbridge near the Padden Creek Daylighting project site show a downstream and upstream view ​of this restoration project, which moved Padden Creek out of an underground tunnel into a newly constructed stream channel in 2015. This project improves fish habitat and reduces flooding risks to nearby homes.

Padden Creek Daylighting Downstream View

Padden Creek Daylighting Upstream View

Stream flowing through trees and shrubs on a sunny day.
Upstream view of the Padden Creek Daylighting from a photo station.

Contacts

​Public Works Natural Resources
(360) 778-7800
habitat@cob.org

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