10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. Unfortunately, while I was still living in the Seattle area, I had discovered the Nisqually Refuge to late, just weeks prior to setting sail south.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2017
In Super Bowl XLVIII, the mighty Seattle Seahawks took a title, though they lost the following year to the aforementioned Patriots. nationalist, holy person, or some species of pirate has won it all. In the previous 50 Super Bowl match-ups, only twice has a football team named for a bird emerged victorious. Go Falcons!
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
The end of this rather long road trip finds us here in Puyallup, Washington which is just south of Seattle. Over 200 species of birds can be found on the refuge, depending on the time of year. Northern Harriers, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, and a fair number of Bald Eagles all can be found on the refuge year round.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2018
The days for me to add to my Little Big Years species count are getting fewer and fewer, and with it, my budget. Such is the case when we got a call from our good friends Scott and Monica, inviting us to travel with them by sailboat up to the San Juan Islands, north of Seattle. Little Big Year species count: 834.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I am eminently qualified to write a full blog post on how to bird Seattle. If you are from Seattle please feel free to skip this or, at the very least, read it charitably and then don’t be mean in the comments.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
We will cover nearly 3000 miles driving before we reach Seattle, and our final stop. I did manage to get a few Surf Scoters, my first Bald Eagle of the year, Pelagic Cormorants , and an unlikely pair of Western Grebes out in the middle of that rough water. Now we are on our way to Seattle, The Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR.,
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2019
In reverse order, the medals were awarded for “most species seen in a country”, to Australia with 420, USA got the silver, scoring 556 while the runaway winner was Costa Rica with 646 species. Seattle–Terminal 91. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis.
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