It’s been a wild week on Whidbey Island.
On August 14, a pair found a ball python slithering round of their yard.
On Thursday, a pair of emus confirmed up unannounced on another person’s property.
Tammy Esparza, an Animal Management Officer with the Island County Sheriff’s Workplace responded to each calls.
“It was like emus?! Are you kidding me proper now? We had snakes final week and now we’ve emus,” she advised KIRO 7 Information. “It was really fairly cool to see them.
Esparza mentioned she is used to calls about unfastened canines or horses, or sheep or goats within the street, so she was shocked to obtain two calls inside per week about unique animals.
The Ball Python
Esparza was sitting together with her supervisors when the decision concerning the python got here in. Esparza mentioned all of them thought it was possible a garter snake. “I known as the person who reported it on the way in which on the market and he mentioned, ‘undoubtedly not a garter snake. I’ve lived on the island for over 30 years, and this isn’t a garter snake.’”
Ezparza mentioned the couple had it contained below a plastic tub when she arrived.
As she lifted it, she noticed together with her personal eyes—it was, actually, a python.
“So far as venomous, I don’t imagine that they’re,” Esparza mentioned. “Their bites do harm as soon as they get larger, however they don’t seem to be naturally aggressive so that they’re not going to only be out to chunk any person.”
No one has reached out to say the snake.
It’s at the moment being cared for by workers with the Whidbey Animals Enchancment Basis (WAIF).
The Emus
Animal Management acquired a name Thursday after a pair of emus confirmed up in a pair’s yard.
“We obtained a textual content from the individuals who we share the property with and so they mentioned, ‘You may have guests.’” mentioned Tori Hagberg, who found the emus on her property.
Her husband, Wealthy, mentioned they usually see wildlife on their property within the woods, however have by no means seen an emu.
“They seem like dinosaurs,” he mentioned.
“They had been form of candy and innocent and they’d comply with you,” Tori mentioned.
The Hagbergs helped lead the animals into their enclosed backyard to maintain them protected whereas they labored to trace down their house owners on social media.
“It was really fairly cool to see them. They had been younger and candy, and so they didn’t have their massive, lengthy claws but as a result of they’re nonetheless younger sufficient so that they weren’t scary in any approach and so they had been very comfortable.”
Esparza mentioned it appeared the 2 obtained unfastened from their enclosure and wandered down a path and onto the property. The Hagbergs mentioned a neighbor confirmed as much as declare them after a number of hours.
“I helped the proprietor wrangle them again up the path to their enclosure,” Esparza mentioned.
Whereas they aren’t a standard pet, Esparza mentioned there are a number of on the island.
The Pelican
The “bizarre” sightings didn’t cease there. Earlier this week, one other household reported seeing a Pelican on the shores of the island.
Whereas the sighting is unusual, specialists say the birds have been settling into the island throughout the final ten years.
Steve Morgan noticed the Pelican on Fort Casey State Park Tuesday, and mentioned the hen appeared very calm hanging out on the seaside.
The Whidbey Audubon Society mentioned American White Pelicans arrived within the space in 2016 into the Deer Lagoon Protect.
