Birding in Neighborhoods - South
The last few shortest days of the year found us at Sunlight Beach once, Deer Lagoon West side most often, and once to Lone Lake looking for a Canvasback Duck which had been hanging out there. Though we missed the Canvasback, it is just Duck Season now and everywhere you go there are at least eight or ten different types of water fowl….
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Field Trip Report, November 15
Steve and Martha Ellis describe a day spent exploring areas of Fort Casey State Park, the Keystone Boat Launch, and Crockett’s Lake. The 13 attendees found a total of 45 bird species!
Birding in Neighborhoods - North
November and December trips to Deception Pass State Park and Keystone Harbor provided excellent winter birding. Calm conditions at Deception Pass revealed seabirds, forest birds, and shorebirds, with memorable sightings of a Great Blue Heron against the Olympic Mountains and…
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Birding in Neighborhoods - South
During some of those final glorious fall days, at Sunlight Beach, in spite of the bouncy surf, we did find some loons, grebes, geese and cormorants out there. We watched a crow watching an Osprey while he ate something on the shore…
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Birding in Neighborhoods - North
Cloudy skies greeted us as we gathered at Dugualla Bay on October 8, but the tide was perfect. A strip of beach brought seabirds close to shore. We successfully identified three species of gulls: California, Glaucous-winged and Ring-billed. The salt marsh featured exposed mud, channels of water and close-up views of…
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Field Trip Reports: Audubon Members Hit the Road This Summer!
Thank you to trip leader Dave Parent for sharing reports from expeditions to Malheur Wildlife Refuge and Westport, WA.
Birding in Neighborhoods - South
September Birding in Neighborhoods South meetups were spent at Deer Lagoon–the shifting seasons bring on something interesting everywhere we turn.
We observed a little of everything–at least 40 species during one morning early in the month–about eight different shorebirds, including…
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Birding in Neighborhoods - North
Thick fog greeted eleven birders as we gathered at the West Beach/Swan Lake Overlook on September 10. Only the birds closest to shore were visible. Among Ring-billed and California Gulls, we spotted Heerman’s Gulls in a full range of plumage, from juveniles to adults. The most dramatic sighting was…
Birding in Neighborhoods South - Summer Sightings
Throughout summer we visited a half dozen locations - from Possession Point at the far tip of the Island and the Glendale (aka, Possession Sound Preserve) Pigeon Guillemot colony where we watched a PIGU deliver a fish to its burrow and saw a lone and early southbound Swan, up to Greenbank Farm where we spied…. Read Nancy Luenn’s full report.
Birding in Neighborhoods North–Summer Sightings
BIN-North birders met three times this summer, including in a trip with BIN-South in August. Highlights included watching the antics of a family of California Quail, being buzzed by a territorial Red-breasted Nuthatch, and seeing a mother river otter and her pup catching fish among the tide pools. Find out else delighted and surprised the group in Nancy’s BIN-North report.