River otters and mink are both common along the shoreline. Black tailed deer are frequently seen crossing East Road on the property. The closed-canopy forest is probably particularly important to deer as a refuge during the few weeks of snow cover that the island experiences in most winters. There is an active bald eagle nest in the dead top of a Douglas fir near East Road. The combination of forest snags and adjacent abandoned farm land make this an ideal hunting ground for all raptors.
Hawks are common, and owls are often heard.
Common ravens, by no means common on Denman Island, are frequently seen and heard here. The Lindsay Dickson place has suported a great blue heron colony in years past. Much of the Lindsay Dickson foreshore is the bedded sedimentary rock interspersed with gravel beaches that characterizes the Eastern shore of Denman Island. Along the shoreline sandstone is eroded into deeply sculpted, rounded organic shapes. The drift logs deposited by storm tides and the undercut roots of shoreline trees are heavily used by otters and mink.