10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2018
We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning, after being on the road, in one form or another since February 1st. Circumstances have been such, that the bulk of my visits to Nisqually, have been in the winter, so the refuge, in the peak of a Seattle Summer, is a much different place. Back in the US of A!
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.
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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. This cold weather and snow does not seem to have much effect on the huge number of ducks and geese, but the smaller song birds, all seem to wake up much later in the days, and only after it has warmed up a bit.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2018
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. A pair Bald Eagles were doing fly-bys over our heads , and there were Belted Kingfishers, Canada Geese , A pair of Mallards, and three Great Blue Herons.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2018
While we have a bit of a deadline to get to Seattle, approximately 3000 miles north of here, we plan on making each driving day a short one, with a stop in some of the Baja’s best birding hotspots. Let the full time birding begin. Day one will have us stopping at Puerto Escondido, where a few rare birds have popped up in the last few days.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
We will cover nearly 3000 miles driving before we reach Seattle, and our final stop. I have gotten to the point where there were very few waterfowl that I need for my years’ list, but I was able to add Canvasbacks , and Cackling Geese. Now we are on our way to Seattle, The Billy Frank Jr. Finley NWR. Finley NWR. Nisqually NWR.,
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2018
We will get started here, in our adopted home of La Paz, Mexico, work our way north to Seattle where we catch our first airplane flight to New Zealand. Misses: Wilson Phalarope, Greater White-fronted Geese. I did not have to get up and search each of the five ponds, the birds all switched ponds every few minutes!
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