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| 1 | Deception Pass is delightfully loon-y in winter | Travel and Recreation |
| Year-round in treetops: bald eagles; in forest: red-breasted sapsuckers; downy, hairy and pileated woodpeckers; Northern flickers, plus Pacific wrens, varied thrushes (fall-winter), yellow-rumped warblers. | ||
| 1/12/2012 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | See gulls, geese, more at mouth of Cedar River | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Lake guarantees great gull spotting: mew, ring-billed, herring, Western, California, Thayer's; occasional rarities like slaty-backed and glaucous; buffleheads; Barrow's and common goldeneyes; Western grebes, double-crested cormorants. | ||
| 12/23/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | See migrating salmon, water birds at Dosewallips | Travel and Recreation |
| Birders' Top Spots | Dosewallips State Park, Site 45 from "Olympic Loop" of Audubon Washington's Great Washington State Birding Trail Location... | ||
| 11/28/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | See grouse and goshawks in remote Pend Oreille wilderness | Travel and Recreation |
| Birders' Top Spots | Salmo-Priest Wilderness, Site 15 from "Palouse to Pines Loop" of the Great Washington State Birding Trail Location... | ||
| 9/8/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Wildfire center on road to Chelan is birder stop, too | Travel and Recreation |
| Habitat: Nonprofit foundation's 10 acres of sagebrush and ponderosa pines. Billed as the world's first center for education, training, research and interpretation of wildland fire. More information: www.wildfirecenter.org. Best seasons for birding: Spring through fall. | ||
| 7/20/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | See the bluebirds of summer in Bickleton | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: "Summer homes, rent free!" Free to bluebirds, that is. Bickleton's human residents developed the state's first bluebird trail, with thousands of nest boxes used by mostly mountain and some Western bluebirds. | ||
| 6/15/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Find a hummingbird haven in Klickitat County | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Look for all four hummingbirds: rufous, Anna's, calliope and black-chinned. Check treetops for Western tanagers and tree trunks for Williamson's sapsuckers and pileated woodpeckers, plus pygmy, red- and white-breasted nuthatches. | ||
| 6/1/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | On Audubon trail, see spring birds (and Bird Fest) in Leavenworth | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Woodland dwellers abound: red-breasted nuthatches, downy woodpeckers, veeries, red-eyed vireos, Swainson's thrushes, Bullock's orioles. Also find western tanagers, yellow warblers, cedar waxwings, gray catbirds, rufous and calliope hummingbirds. | ||
| 5/11/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Shorebirds (and birder festival) coming to Grays Harbor | Travel and Recreation |
| In fall, check marsh for greater white-fronted geese, Eurasian wigeons, plus occasional white pelicans, Ross's and snow geese, and sandhill cranes. Viewing tips: Walk west to 0.7-mile Sandpiper Trail boardwalk. Best viewing 2 hours before/after high tide. | ||
| 4/13/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Spring songbirds and drumming grouse add music to Mima Mounds | Travel and Recreation |
| Habitat: Washington Department of Natural Resources Natural Area Preserve with 624 acres of rare mounded grassland prairie bordered by coniferous forests. Best seasons for birding: Fall through spring. | ||
| 4/6/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Cross the state to see tundra swans on 'Swan Lake' | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Mid-February to mid-April, 4,000 to 5,000 tundra swans gather here, joined by Canada geese, northern pintails, and wood ducks. Late spring, see breeding cinnamon, blue- and green-winged teal; hooded mergansers, red-necked grebes, and gadwalls. | ||
| 3/16/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Cape Disappointment doesn't disappoint birdwatchers | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Peregrine falcons hunt dunlin in winter. Watch beaches for migrating black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, and western and least sandpipers, and edges of freshwater lakes for killdeer, lesser and greater yellowlegs, and spotted sandpipers. | ||
| 2/16/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Kalaloch has the gulls of your dreams | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Gulls for all seasons: Herring and mew gulls in winter, plus black-legged kittiwakes. Spring-summer, see Western, glaucous-winged, and ring-billed gulls; California and Heermann's gulls in August-September. | ||
| 1/12/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Theler Wetlands: a birding wonderland on Hood Canal | Travel and Recreation |
| Habitat: School district/Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 135-acre preserve on Hood Canal, with salt- and freshwater marshes, forested wetlands, Union River estuary. Best seasons for birding: Autumn through spring. | ||
| 12/1/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Top birding on sandy point at Ocean Shores | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: North shoreline in fall hosts American pipits, horned larks, Pacific golden plovers and Lapland longspurs. Look inland for western and least sandpipers, dunlins, semipalmated plovers. | ||
| 11/3/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Good fall birding on Chehalis River sloughs | Travel and Recreation |
| Habitat: Washington Department of Natural Resources Natural Area Preserve of 2,644 acres of sloughs with coniferous and deciduous riparian areas and forested wetlands. Best seasons for birding: Spring and fall. | ||
| 9/22/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Methow's Beaver Pond is a great bet for birds | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Blue-chip birding! Check pond for migrating blue-winged teal, northern pintails, Barrow's goldeneyes, redheads and ruddy ducks. Watch water's edge for Virginia rails, soras, and spotted sandpipers. Find veeries, house wrens, orange-crowned warblers in deciduous forest. | ||
| 9/1/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | See 'vacationing' shorebirds at Potholes mud flats | Travel and Recreation |
| Habitat: 100+ acres of Bureau of Reclamation/Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) land; Potholes Reservoir with shallow water and mud flats bordered by willow thickets. | ||
| 8/25/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Birding Trail: Swifts and swallows pirouette at Dry Falls | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: The place to learn the difference between swifts and swallows. From this elevated perspective, look down on or straight across at aerial ballet performed by white-throated swifts, and violet-green and barn swallows. | ||
| 7/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Go boating, birding (and maybe fishing) at Fish Lake | Travel and Recreation |
| Birds commonly seen: Spring-summer, a "baker's dozen" of ospreys fish the lake. Spring brings Wilson's phalaropes, red-breasted nuthatches, common yellowthroats. Sharp-shinned hawks dive on flocks of violet-green swallows, Brewer's blackbirds. | ||
| 6/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||